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Microsoft 365 Education tenants

How Microsoft 365 Education differs from commercial Microsoft 365 — plans, features, and admin specifics.

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What are the Microsoft 365 Education plans?

A1 (free, web-based, being retired in favour of A1 for devices), A3, and A5 — the education equivalents of E3 and E5 — licensed per faculty member with student licences included at a ratio. Student Use Benefit gives stu…

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What is different about an education tenant?

Different SKUs and prices, Teams for Education features (class teams, assignments), Minecraft and other education apps, age-based settings for minors, and storage changes since 2023 that reduced free pooled storage to 1…

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Should students and staff be in the same tenant?

Usually yes — one tenant with separate licensing, administrative units, and Conditional Access policies per population. Separate tenants create collaboration and administration problems that outweigh the isolation benef…

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