intune pricing help

[password1234]

Hi all

 

Quick question

 

Got a school their server is on its way out, they have suggested to go completely serverless and go fully cloud (not something we want to do we can only advise the school though)

 

has around 200 students and about 20 Staff/Teachers/Admins etc

 

 

All the devices in the school are windows devices they only recently ordered around 80 windows laptops recently.

 

They are currently on the O365 A1 License, going fully cloud with this license wont be possible so i am assuming they need to upgrade to A3 License for all pupils and teachers

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/academic/compare-office-365-education-plans?activetab=tab:primaryr1

We are looking at using intune for management possibly

Regarding intune does anyone know if this comes as part as A3 or are there any additional costs associated with it? I'm assuming if we get intune is there a limit of devices which we can manage?

 

anyone know how the intune model works?

[atcoates]

I think there is no limit on the number of devices, the limit is on the number of students. So if you license 20 staff you'd get 300 student licenses as each staff member covers 15 students.

 

You get these for staff MS CSP Intune for Education for Faculty

These for students (but are free) MS CSP Intune for Education for Students

[EssentialRug]

As above! Intune licenses are fairly cheap as well so this will be achievable for not much outlay. Any reason for not wanting to go serverless/fully cloud?

[password1234]

As above! Intune licenses are fairly cheap as well so this will be achievable for not much outlay. Any reason for not wanting to go serverless/fully cloud?

 

Thanks, its one of these situations where someone has said to the school go fully cloud despite not seeing the bigger picture

 

The School has a bunch of Applications that run off their server such as SIMS/FMS and a bunch of other applications so going fully cloud won't work unfortunately but they are not seeing that, i was thinking possibly by downscaling a bit getting like a decent cheap server to run the applications on then for the Teaching staff go down the route of fully 365

[EssentialRug]

Yeah that makes sense...I think sometimes those in position of saying 'I want this' haven't fully considered the move and what services need to be swapped or amended. In my opinion it should be gradual journey towards being serverless though. Can you get hosted SIMS or replacements for any local services that are cloud based? That could be a long term project and could also be a good argument to put forward for an 'in between' server like you mentioned.

[mavhc]

Don't forget to get redundant internet connections

[Mrpower]

Yesterday I was told by a Microsoft representative that intune was including in A3 subscriptions.

[Norphy]

Yesterday I was told by a Microsoft representative that intune was including in A3 subscriptions.

 

Microsoft 365 A3 subscriptions, yes. Not a plain Office 365 A3 subscription.