Direct Access enabled laptops for Students, any one doing it?

[hyb80]

With Covid and self isolations we have tried various laptop setups, basic standalone with just o365, standalone with all our software but not domain joined and normal domain joined laptop with direct access enabled (basically just like a staff laptop)

 

The latter being the most successful in terms of giving access to software and home / student shares etc over a 2 week period.

 

I have been reluctant to offer this for fear a bit of the unknown, if a student wanted to test a few things externally they wouldnt subject to the same restrictions (internet filtering etc) as they would on site.

 

However it has worked out the most painless way of providing a laptop (no rebuilding and faffing with additional software)

 

Does anyone else, in schools or universities provide this solution students short or long term? if so how many do you roll out.

 

We are in process of migrating fully over to onedrive for student shares. Use of teams has also changed they landscape.

 

also aware that Direct Access is eol and being replaced by AOVPN

[Guest Guest]

We've had to use AOVPN as we had a batch of DFE laptops with no filtering and seems to be working ok