setting up office365 in small education establishment

[password1234]

Hello!

Wonder if someone can advise me

 

We are a very small private education establishment just newly formed

We got someone to setup a small network for us which works well

currently running a server with a domain controller and file share and our pupils use win 10 laptop and login to the domain do their work save their work and everything else and this all works fine

 

however the governors have told me that they want to use office365 but dont want to spend much money as its tight for now so i have been asked to help with this, i know basics about IT but not enough about this

 

we have setup a office365 account and been approved for education so i got the details and full login to everything

what the establishment want is to link the active directory logins which the pupil use at the school to link with office365

 

so when the pupils work from home if they go to the office365 portal they can use the same or simuilar account and password to login to their office365 portal from home so the password syncs at home when working and also at the establishment

 

i been reading that azure active directory should work that i should install this on the server and it does all the work is this correct?

 

furthermore they also asked when they are logged on to the laptops and pcs at the establishment to access their onedrive online offie etc that they can use single sing on too without having to login is this possible

 

can someone send me pointers?

 

Sorry we are quit3 new to all this and the establishment cant really afford to hire IT companies to do this work as they are new so i am just helping them out

 

thanks

[mavhc]

You install Azure AD Connect, and follow the steps, use password hash sync. Without paying you can't change the online password and have it change the local AD password, but not usually a problem. You tick "Enable single sign-on"

[sted]

in most cases unless you need intune you can probably get away with the free schools version of office 365.

 

But basically follow the guides for setting up azure ad connect and sso (related but not identical) and then look into known folder move so documents/pictures/desktop are all in onedrive rather than on prem just be aware its incompatible with folder redirection and i have not managed to get it to automatically map shared sharepoint drives yet