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Managing Cloud Storage for M365 Education Customers

Co-authored by Ben Stott and Kelly Mathurin of the Jisc Cloud team.   A major benefit of being a customer of the Microsoft 365 Education suite has for a long time been having access to unlimited storage across OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange. This has meant that IT administrators haven’t needed to worry about capacity planning, […]

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Advice & Guidance In-light of Microsoft 365 Storage Price Increases

‘… the reality is that existing education establishments have been using their Microsoft 365 Tenants without any restrictions. This change, from their perspective, is a new restriction and will no doubt, be perceived as a price rise, since many education tenants are larger than 100TB.’ For further information see our advice paper: Advice and Guidance […]

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Reminder: PSTN end of life in 2025

Openreach are in the progress of moving all customers from the old analogue public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a fully digital network: Openreach puts the stopper on copper | Openreach – this means no more ISDN or analog copper lines, fiber is the way forward.  As of September 2023, Openreach are only provide digital […]

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Service announcements

New service: Microsoft 365 Health Check

After a successful pilot, we now offer the new Jisc Cloud professional service – Microsoft 365 Health Check A high-level security review of the Microsoft 365 tenant- Review of Microsoft Security Centre Review the Tenant against Jisc and Microsoft best practices. Entra conditional access policies Review of Teams admin portal Use and recommendations – various […]

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New Jisc cloud professional services pilots

I’m excited to introduce two new services that Jisc cloud is seeking institutions to pilot with us: Microsoft Intune deployment accelerator pilot A project to demonstrate how to use Microsoft Intune so that you can confidently set the configuration and policies that will enable endpoint management. This will include mobile devices as well as laptop/desktop […]

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Dynamic Groups + Group Based Licensing

Automate automate automate, that should be part of my job title. In this post I’m going to talk about a lesser known feature of Azure AD, which is now available to anyone with A3/E3 or above, group based licensing. With Microsoft’s retirement of the AzureAD and MSOL modules (replaced with MSGraph) you will need to […]

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Jisc Cloud partner news and events

AWS News On Demand Webinars Getting Started with the AWS Cloud Essentials I On Demand (70 minutes) Securing Your AWS Cloud I On Demand (90 minutes) Machine Learning Basics I On-Demand (90 minutes) How Amazon SageMaker Can Help I On Demand (60 minutes) Strategies and Tools to Perform Large-Scale Migrations I On Demand (90 minutes) […]

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Optimising Microsoft 365 security and governance

A recording of the recent session run by Richard Jackson and Colm Blake of the Jisc cloud solutions team at the Jisc Security Conference. The session covers best practices for the configuration of Office 365, Windows 10/11 and the Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) suite.

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Microsoft 365, information governance & retention

In our discussions with our customers, one of the most common questions that arise is “Do I need to back up my Office 365 data?”. While this blog is not written to answer that question, my next post might attempt to, one of the key services in the Microsoft 365 platform to reduce or remove […]

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Remote access and Zero Trust

Zero Trust is a concept which has been around for at least the last decade. Whilst organisations were aware of it and implementing aspects of a Zero Trust architecture, it was not until 2020, for obvious reasons, that pretty much every organisation was forced into thinking about its adoption; responding to a distributed and fragmented […]