jimbobTech

Setting up senso.cloud on student take home laptops at the moment and looks good but not fully used it yet

Do you have a system where emails journal off to already? Something like Mimecast? Failing that have a look at "Multi Mailbox Search": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/exchange-server-2010/dd335072(v=exchg.141)

Setup a virtual machine in Azure and install Veeam onto that - then setup some storage connected to that VM for your Veeam Backups to copy to. Setup "backup copy jobs" from on premise to you Azure virtual machine. Take a loop at the calculator for Azure pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/ Or investigate "Veeam Cloud Connect" as an option: https://www.veeam.com/cloud-connect.html

For the RDP part keep an eye on "Bastion" in Azure which is in preview at the moment; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/azure-bastion-now-available-for-preview/ "Azure Bastion is a new managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP/SSH connectivity to your virtual machines directly in the Azure portal over SSL and without any public IP on your virtual machines"