Golden Path for Education - Part 1a
What is Golden Path Golden Path was developed to simplify and enhance the security of deploying a Microsoft 365 tenant solution in education. It consists of three stages: Stage 1: Deployment Guides are available online at Golden Path. This stage includes: Baseline - Stage 1a Standard - Stage 1b Advanced - Stage 1c Stage 2: A Discovery/Assessment AI tool is used to expose the tenant's configuration and analyze it against the tenant's license configurations, tenant and service settings, Microsoft's general education recommendations, and customer requirements. Stage 3: Drift Configuration management helps understand changes made against the established configuration in the tenant. These changes can be reversed or modified before any breaches or irregularities create problems. Goals and Objectives for Golden Path Goals Develop prescriptive deployment guides that provide a centralized resource with education-specific scenarios to assist organizations in defining, managing, and organizing their tenant and appropriate applications. Reduce the overall complexity of tenant and service deployment. Establish baseline recommended pathways to facilitate a common and agreed-upon configuration based on subject-matter experts. Utilize AI technology to uncover and compare recommended settings against user requirements based on documented configurations. Implement phased configurations to aid customers and partners in understanding what they may not know or should consider during discovery to meet customer expectations. Highlight unused features and products to ensure customers fully leverage the potential and benefits of their purchased product licenses. Identify opportunities for partner participation in achieving customer goals and expectations based on customer requirements and Golden Path findings. Create an easy pathway for customer change management to enhance control, security, compliance, and privacy of tenants. Develop custom assessments to evaluate product entry for items such as Copilot, Defender, Purview, Intune, Zero-Trust, and Microsoft Entra ID. Objectives Deliver information for features available (used/unused) to users based on license model. Prescriptive recommendations based on education scenarios. - Present upgrade license opportunities from A1 to A3 to A5. Security analysis exposing gaps and issues proactively to allow modifications before it's too late. Promote partner access to customers that have defined gaps based on assessments and are requesting partner assistance. Better discovery and assessment analysis with new tools. Designed to be more self-serving customer and partner access management. Speed up user adoption for educators and IT Admins alike. Baseline Stage 1a Baseline is stage 1a in the overall development of the Golden Path for Education. It is based on a majority of licenses within the tenant at the Microsoft 365 A1 for Education level. It also is a set of recommendations for ALL Microsoft Education tenants. Navigation Golden Path has three folders in the navigations. Golden Path Baseline References Golden Path folder consist of the Golden Path overall review. It goes over the entire program and the how and why it is built. Currently there are two pages, Golden Path overview and Baseline Overview. Golden Path overview menu Golden Path overview Stages (Deployment Guides, Discovery/Assessments, Drift Management) Modules (Setup, Identity, Applications, Security, and Devices) Phases (Baseline(A1), Standard(A3), Advanced(A5)) Baseline Overview Steps for each phase (Setup, Identity, Applications, Security, Devices) Licenses that are included General information links List of links for all applications and products included with A1 license List of links for all features included with A1 license Baseline menu Setup Tenant setup is key to establishing a secure and valid tenant. Setup goes through domain assignment, administration, and service management. Overview - Review all the steps that are part of the setup phase section Step 1 - Create your Office 365 tenant account Step 2 - Configure Security Center admin settings Step 3 - Secure and configure your network Step 4 - Sync your on-premises active directory Step 5 - Provision users Step 6 - Sync SIS with School Data Sync (SDS) Step 7 - License Users Identity Establishing an identity via Microsoft Entra ID and establishing authentication methods, Single Sign-On, and user procurement methodologies. Overview - Review all steps that are a part of the identity phase Step 1 - Understand identity definitions Step 2 - Configure Microsoft Entra ID basics Step 3 - Consider education identity steps Step 4 - Consider identity applications Step 5 - Set up access to operation services Step 6 - Set up identity lifecycle Step 7 - Configure security in identity Step 8 - Manage access controls Applications Applications like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online are the core to a Microsoft tenant. Getting these applications setup are essential to allowing users in education to access services and apps like Learning Accelerators. Overview - Review all steps that are a part of the application phase Exchange Online o Step 1 - Design an Exchange Online environment o Step 2 - Set up Exchange Online o Step 3 - Configure compliance and security in Exchange Online o Step 4 - Configure address books, shared mailboxes, and clients Microsoft Teams o Overview - What is Microsoft Teams for Education o Step 1 - Configure Microsoft Teams for Education o Step 2 - Configure Microsoft Teams policies and settings for education organization OneDrive/SharePoint - Overview o Step 1 - Plan your OneDrive and SharePoint Deployment o Step 2 - Share within OneDrive and SharePoint o Step 3 - Configure security and access controls in OneDrive and SharePoint o Step 4 - Compliance considerations with OneDrive and SharePoint Security and Compliance Security via each phase is essential to maintaining order and blocking access for bad actors. Along with security compliance/privacy considerations that are established to adhere to a multitude of local and government requirements worldwide. Overview Step 1 - Security Considerations Devices Managed and unmanaged devices are another key to helping secure the network and potential cyber-security considerations that enter the network via these devices. Overview Step 1 - Review device management structure Step 2 - Plan device management Step 3 - Configure settings and applications Step 4 - Deploy and manage devices Windows 11 features and tips References menu Mulit-tenant solutions - Architectural recommendations base on multi or large tenant solutions. Accessibility Deploy Office 365 applications Pooled storage management How do you use Golden Path? Golden Path uses deployment guidelines content that contain education scenario specifics. Golden Path has a linked path for each modules based on the phase (Baseline,Standard,Advanced). Users can follow the deployment content to establish or redefine the tenant configuration in order to enable additional services and products. What’s Next Go to https://aka.ms/gp4edu to access the first part of Golden Path. Part 1b (Standard -A3 content) NEXT Part 1c (Advanced – A5 content) Part 2 - We will create a mechanism to discover the tenant configuration settings and allow customers and partners the ability to qualify what is set to standard recommendation. Using AI to deliver user requirements against the configuration will allow additional paths to enable services and features that allow the user/customer to achieve their objectives. Part 3 – Deliver drift management solution for management of unrealized or understood changes that need to be approved or modified.
Restrict people search
How do you restrict the results of "people" on the global search box on the M365 landing page. In a Multi Academy Trust with multiple schools under a single M365 tenancy, pupils are able to put a single character in the search box, and are able to retrieve a list of all the users staff and pupils starting with that letter, from all the schools in the tenancy. The work around provided is to hide from exchange, but then that will hide all staff as well, which is counter productive for operational use of exchange online etc.Which SCORM Player do you recommend with O365?
Hi, Has anyone already tried the SCORM Players from eLearningforce and LMS365? What are your experiences? Do you have any other SCORM player that you can recommend? We are looking for a product that has a rich feature and integrates well with Office Groups and in a later stage also with Microsoft Education Teams. Looking forward to your responses!Learn Data Science Course in Bangalore
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Rapid prototyping using PowerApps (Mixed Reality) + SPO API/Python + Solidworks & Dremel 3D45.
Here's a quick view of rapid prototyping, from CAD design to 3D printing/running a motor assembly: 1. Design components in CAD (Solidworks). 2. Import file into Power Apps & visualize, check form/fit with housing using the Mixed Reality feature. 3. 3D print (Dremel 3D45) & run system with PowerApps + SPOl API & Python coder (easy IOT). Massive opportunity for graduate students and design engineers. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjiv-venkatram_aseansmsbizappsug-aseansmswomenintech-powerapps-activity-6800953732071874560-PfDtDynamic calibration (rand func./looping in PowerApps) of devices using PowerApps & other MS tech.
Greetings friends, hope you & family are well. Here's a quick view of doing semi automated calibration of devices (BLDC motor here) using the Rand() func. (pseudo random # generator) in PowerApps and a for loop. The inputs serve as a "shock" to the system and one can observe system response. We take the output to Azure ML/Excel to get the calibration curves (diminishing returns in this case). Below is the link to the same: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjiv-venkatram_aseansmsbizappsug-aseansmswomenintech-powerapps-activity-6777762733678043138-tOCA We'll be demo'ing this during our ASEANS monthly meetup & kindly join here: https://lnkd.in/gVbtA5p Kind regards, SanjivNew: SharePoint templates for Education
New SharePoint site templates for schools and universities are now available via the SharePoint look book. Three templates are provided, designed with a specific scope and audience for our Education customers: School home page Staff home page Class home page Learn more: https://aka.ms/BLOG_SPEducationSitesUser adoption podcast for education
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to make you aware of some community resources we have created to help education users adopt Office 365 from a strategic level. We also create guides on our blog and YouTube channel for end users. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3gSRmDtbEE4ozmqykAa2w We have a podcast series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-eZHO0ywIIBIDOpcTkWFFb-8N7JEx_TO Also a community blog area on our website: https://www.clouddesignbox.co.uk/blog Any my own personal blog: https://www.tonyishere.co.uk/ I hope its of use to you, you can also reach out to me on Twitter https://twitter.com/TonyMSTeams Thanks, Tony
Anonymous guest sharing in Teams
Ever wanted to share folders or documents, like the weekly schedule, homework etc., with anonymous guests like parents? For the sake of clarity, these are not guests invited to the actual team, but rather anyone receiving or accessing the link, by email, a text message or from a webpage. Unfortunately, when a team is created, the underlying SharePoint site has a default SharingCapability of ExternalUserSharingOnly. We can find the SharingCapability by logging onto Sharepoint Online with PowerShell, as an admin user with the appropriate permissions: Connect-SPOService Get-SPOSite -Identity siteurl | select SharingCapability SharingCapability : ExternalUserSharingOnly We can see in the docs that ExternalUserSharingOnly allows external user sharing (share by email), but not guest link sharing. What we need is ExternalUserAndGuestSharing, where both external user sharing, and guest link sharing are enabled; Check out my post on Teams.rocks to see how we can acomplish that using powershell: Anonymous guest sharing in Teams
