Most pain free way to deploy Minecraft Education edition

[cheaptonersucks]

Hi All,

 

Just wondering what the most pain free way is to install Minecraft Education Edition. We don’t have SCCM but we have PDQ. The head of computing said that we can purchase Minecraft Education Edition from the Microsoft store, but the store doesn’t work in a school environment with thousands of users.

 

I have read through this old post http://www.edugeek.net/forums/educational-software/186655-minecraft-education-how-do-you-deploy-3.html but I am not sure if anyone has deployed Minecraft more recently, as Microsoft seem to change everything on a daily basis these days!!!!

 

Thanks in advance for any current advice.

 

The network manager informs me that the school have an OVS licence with MS.

Edited November 23, 2021 by cheaptonersucks

[TechMonkey]

I haven't done it this way, but could you sign up to the MS Business Store? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/sign-up-microsoft-store-for-business. You should then at least be able to offer it out as an option (if you are licensed) and get the pupils that want it to install it.

[chazzy2501]

if they are not 1:1 devices then the approved way is to use the desktop version.

[cheaptonersucks]

Thanks for the info. What the best way to license Minecraft for each user?

[Squelch]

I updated one of our classrooms with the latest version of Minecraft Edu edition today. I downloaded it from here: https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/get-started/download and then performed a silent install

MinecraftEducationEdition_x86_1.x.x.x.exe /exenoui AI_DESKTOP_SH=1 /qn

 

Worked very well.

 

I followed this guide: https://silentinstallhq.com/minecraft-education-edition-silent-install-how-to-guide/

Edited November 23, 2021 by Squelch

[cheaptonersucks]

The network manager isn’t sure how to license Minecraft. The school has MS A3 licences at the moment.

[Squelch]

I would start by looking here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/school-get-minecraft