O365 & GAfE - together in one school

[CapnPugwash]

Apologies if this has been covered in other posts, it it has please direct me to em!

 

We are testing O365/GaFE. It looks like the word from on high will be that we have to have both. Some teachers love GaFE. Some love Microsoft. That's just the way it is.

 

From what I understand, creating users in both sysytems by syncing to AD isn't an issue. Students and staff will have one username / password for both.

 

Managing documents across the two systems will be up to individuals but I presume most tutors will specify whether they want students to use one or the other for their lesson.

 

Email is where I start to scratch my head. Currently we have an onsite Exchange server. We want to ditch this and migrate all mailboxes to the cloud. In an ideal world the O365 & GAfE mail accounts would mirror each other, so you could use either or both. I've seen a video about a school who did this but they paid an IT company to set it up for them.

 

One of My concerns (other than 'how do I do this!') would be : if I can send an email from two different accounts, but it always looks like it originated from the same address, would it trigger some spam filters to block emails from my domain address.

 

Right now I'm just gathering info. If anyone is using O365 & GAfE in a single school I'd be reallt interested to know how you are set up.

[JonThompson]

We have Office 365 and we also use GA for our Chromebooks. We used to have Exchange but have migrated to 365 because of BSF.

 

We have seperate domains for 365 and Google. Our emails live with MS with our schools domain, and we have a .org.uk domain which we use with Google.

 

Our users then have two email accounts, their Primary Account used with Outlook and 365, and a seperate .org.uk account for use with Google (With a Google Email Account).

 

We went with this option as we wanted to keep our domains seperate, and we knew that we HAD to migrate to 365 for emails.

 

As we only really use the .org.uk domain for the Chromebooks, it also made sense to keep things seperate.

 

It does make management a little painful as you have multiple systems to manage, but once it's set up it's fine.

 

We currently use IAMCloud to sync users with 365, and we manually update Google, but as it's only the occasional user it's not too bad.

 

We will probably stop using Google once our Chromebooks reach end of life, as thats all we really use it for - our users all prefer to use 365 and we have Office installed on all desktops and laptops, so most things are MS office based.

Edited September 28, 2015 by JonThompson

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I've started to federate from Office 365 to Google Apps but I've not got very far with it other then a couple of test users at the moment.

 

This is what I'm following: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn308591.aspx

 

In terms of emails for the users, everything is currently done through Office 365 so I just switched gmail off. As it hasn't been used in anger however I don't know about any other email issues yet.

[CapnPugwash]

We have Office 365 and we also use GA for our Chromebooks. We used to have Exchange but have migrated to 365 because of BSF.

 

We have seperate domains for 365 and Google. Our emails live with MS with our schools domain, and we have a .org.uk domain which we use with Google.

 

Our users then have two email accounts, their Primary Account used with Outlook and 365, and a seperate .org.uk account for use with Google (With a Google Email Account).

 

We went with this option as we wanted to keep our domains seperate, and we knew that we HAD to migrate to 365 for emails.

 

As we only really use the .org.uk domain for the Chromebooks, it also made sense to keep things seperate.

 

It does make management a little painful as you have multiple systems to manage, but once it's set up it's fine.

 

We currently use IAMCloud to sync users with 365, and we manually update Google, but as it's only the occasional user it's not too bad.

 

We will probably stop using Google once our Chromebooks reach end of life, as thats all we really use it for - our users all prefer to use 365 and we have Office installed on all desktops and laptops, so most things are MS office based.

 

Hmmm. That's interesting. The push here, is to have one email address for both and the mailboxes mirrored. Which I think is do-able but probably a lot of work.

[snagrat]

We have Office 365 and we also use GA for our Chromebooks. We used to have Exchange but have migrated to 365 because of BSF.

 

We have seperate domains for 365 and Google. Our emails live with MS with our schools domain, and we have a .org.uk domain which we use with Google.

 

Our users then have two email accounts, their Primary Account used with Outlook and 365, and a seperate .org.uk account for use with Google (With a Google Email Account).

 

We went with this option as we wanted to keep our domains seperate, and we knew that we HAD to migrate to 365 for emails.

 

As we only really use the .org.uk domain for the Chromebooks, it also made sense to keep things seperate.

 

It does make management a little painful as you have multiple systems to manage, but once it's set up it's fine.

 

We currently use IAMCloud to sync users with 365, and we manually update Google, but as it's only the occasional user it's not too bad.

 

We will probably stop using Google once our Chromebooks reach end of life, as thats all we really use it for - our users all prefer to use 365 and we have Office installed on all desktops and laptops, so most things are MS office based.

 

We use IAMcloud and see that Google is listed is the available Applications. I wonder if you can create Google accounts based on your Office 365 users