Azure AD Group Based Licensing in Education. Will this apply to Staff, Students and Alumni?
Please note that I have previously posted this as a ‘reply’ to the announcement of the feature https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory/Azure-AD-group-based-license-management-for-Office-365-and-more/m-p/57595#M304 - I apologize if this is some sort of cross posting breach. Greetings all, My question is specifically in regards to end user licensing in the Education Sector, which is needed to use Azure AD Group Based Licensing. Going by Source 1, all users who inherit a license via the group based licensing model will need an Azure AD Basic license (not Azure AD Free). Going by Source 2, this will change once the functionality reaches GA. Once this happens, "it will be included in Office 365 Enterprise E3 and similar products." As Education licensing differs from the standard Enterprise E3, will this functionality be included at no cost for Student and Alumni licensing? As you can imagine, a large University will have hundreds of thousands of Alumni and tens of thousands of Students. Having Education E3 include the Azure AD Basic licensing / eligibility for Azure AD Group based licensing for $0 will help for Staff, but if Azure AD Basic licensing is not included for Alumni and Students, the Education sector will not be able to afford to use this awesome functionality. Can someone please provide clarity, and preferably a link to a valid Microsoft site, on how Azure AD Group Based Licensing and Azure AD Basic will apply to Staff, Students and Alumni. Source 1 - Link - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-licensing-whatis-azure-port... Features – During public preview, a paid or trial subscription for Azure AD basic or premium editions is required in the tenant to use group-based license management. Also, every user who inherits any licenses from groups must have the paid Azure AD edition license assigned to them. Source 2 - Link - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/22/announcing-the-public-preview-of-a... It contains the following statement: "While group-based license management is in public preview you will need an active subscription for Azure AD Basic (or above) in your tenant to assign licenses to groups. If you don’t have one, just sign up for an Enterprise Mobility + Security trial. Later, when this functionality becomes generally available it will be included in Office 365 Enterprise E3 and similar products."Microsoft Open Source Curriculum
Academic Content GitHub https://github.com/microsoft/AcademicContent/blob/main/curricula.md Title Description Web Development for Beginners, 24 lessons A curriculum with 24 lessons, assignments and five projects to build. Covers HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Also includes Pre- and Post- Quizzes. Made with teachers in mind, or as self paced learning Machine Learning for Beginners, 25 lessons A curriculum with 25 lessons with assignments covering classic Machine Learning primarily using Scikit-learn. Covers Regression, Classification, Clustering, NLP, Time Series Forecasting, and Reinforcement Learning, with two Applied ML lessons. Also includes 52 Pre- and Post- Quizzes. Made with teachers in mind, or as self paced learning IoT for Beginners, 24 lessons A curriculum with 24 lessons with assignments all about the Internet of Things. The projects cover the journey of food from farm to table. This includes farming, logistics, manufacturing, retail and consumer - all popular industry areas for IoT devices. Also includes Pre- and Post- Quizzes. Made with teachers in mind, or as self paced learning Data Science for Beginners, 20 lessons A curriculum with 20 lessons with assignments all about Data Science. Lessons cover the data science lifecycle from definition to deployment. Also includes Pre- and Post- Quizzes. Made with teachers in mind, or as self paced learning AI for Beginners, 24 lessons A curriculum with 24 lessons with assignments all about Artificial Intelligence. Lessons cover AI topics such as neural networks using frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Also includes Pre- and Post- Quizzes. Made with teachers and students in mind, or as self paced learningIT Pro in Education Career Profile: James van den Berg
We just featured a career profile of MVP JamesvandenBerg who focuses on Azure, Windows Server and many other technologies in the Education space. If you're interested on his take on what a successful career in the cloud looks like, read the post in the IT Resources & Training community here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/IT-Resources-Training/Cloud-Career-Profile-James-van-den-Berg/m-p/56082#M102
