M365 A3 Student SKU Services

[foofighterjim]

Does anyone have any idea or a link to what each service in M365 A3 license actually does? I've tried searching for each service and most come back with useful information whereas others I'm still no the wiser as to the exact implications of enabling or disabling.

 

I'm just in the process of assigning this to our Student security group in Azure but a number of the services seem irrelevant or undesirable for students to have, for instance, why would you have Kaizala, StaffHub, Yammer & Skype for students; especially if you have Teams anyway? Likewise I'm not sure if removing Skype for Business Online, would have a knock on impact with elements of Teams, I recall some Teams permissions relying on Skype cmdlts in Powershell. Here is my list of what I have and haven't enabled if this is helpful to anyone else:

 

Microsoft 365 A3 for students use benefit

 

Enabled - Project for Office (Plan E3)

Enabled - Common Data Service

Enabled - Information Protection for Office 365 - Standard

Enabled - Education Analytics

Disabled - Microsoft Kaizala Pro

Enabled - Whiteboard (Plan 2)

Enabled - Intune for Education

Enabled - Cloud App Security Discovery

Enabled - To-Do (Plan 2)

Enabled - Windows 10 Enterprise

Enabled - Minecraft Education Edition

Enabled - Microsoft Intune

Enabled - Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

Enabled - Azure Active Directory Premium P1

Enabled - Azure Active Directory Basic for EDU

Enabled - Microsoft Stream for O365 E3 SKU

Enabled - School Data Sync (Plan 2)

Enabled - Azure Rights Management

Enabled - Microsoft Teams

Enabled - Sway

Disabled - Microsoft StaffHub

Disabled - PowerApps for Office 365

Enabled - Flow for Office 365

Enabled - Microsoft Forms (Plan 2)

Enabled - Microsoft Planner

Disabled - Yammer for Academic

Disabled - Skype for Business Online (Plan 2)

Enabled - Office for the web (Education)

Enabled - SharePoint Plan 2 for EDU

Enabled - Exchange Online (Plan 2)

Enabled - Office 365 Cloud App Security

Enabled - Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise

 

Anything else I should turn off, or indeed, back on?

[robyholmes]

We don't grant the Skype for Business or Yammer licence to students and it's had no affect on Teams use.

[foofighterjim]

We don't grant the Skype for Business or Yammer licence to students and it's had no affect on Teams use.

 

Good to know, thanks!