![]() ![]() Microsoft continues to be committed to providing Office 365 A1 to schools at no cost and Microsoft 365 for Education suites at significant discounts off commercial pricing. As Microsoft continues to invest in new experiences that benefit all learners, such as the new learning accelerators introduced earlier this year to help students with reading and other essential skills, we want to ensure that our approach to storage is sustainable. With this change, education customers can help do their part.įinally, Microsoft’s mission in education is to empower students, faculty, and schools to achieve more. ![]() Already, our datacenters are built with the highest environmental standards in mind. 2 Microsoft is committed to both the security and privacy of school and student data as well as reducing our collective carbon footprint. Storage of this “ dark ” data takes up space on servers and results in increased electricity consumption, generating 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 alone. Today, education is the most affected industry by cybercrime, with K12 receiving over 80% of workplace malware attacks alone.įrom a sustainability standpoint, stored files no longer in use have an impact on our carbon footprint with over half of all data stored by organizations not serving a useful purpose. This is not sustainable from a cost or environmental sustainability perspective, and it puts education institutions and their students at risk for a data breach. With the move to the cloud, stored files, data and unused accounts have increased significantly over time, as more and more stored files and data have proliferated without a plan for end-of-life. Office 365 A1 Plus is a free Office subscription that include Office desktop apps for qualified schools that purchased Office institution-wide for faculty and staff. After all existing Office 365 A1 Plus licenses expire on August 1, 2024, schools will have the choice to utilize Office 365 A1, our no-cost option, or Microsoft 365 for Education suites at significant discounts off commercial pricing. On August 1, 2024, Microsoft will retire the Office 365 A1 Plus program for Education. Schools will also have the option to purchase additional incremental storage or explore cost-effective Azure storage options based on their needs. With new tools, all schools can now better manage their information and set thoughtful policies for governance. To help schools with this transition, Microsoft is delivering a set of free tools to help manage the process end-to-end including tools to visualize current storage allocation and usage across OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange, and tools to more easily manage stored data and end-of-life files that are no longer needed. ![]() In addition, effective February 1, 2024, users of Office 365 A1 (no-cost subscription) will be limited to a maximum of 100GB of OneDrive storage per user within the school tenant’s 100TB of pooled storage. While this program is no longer needed, we will continue to offer a no-cost option and significant discounts off commercial pricing.įor education customers with Microsoft 365 or Office 365, beginning at your next contract renewal, but no sooner than August 1, 2024, all school tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, with an additional 50GB or 100GB of pooled storage per paid user for A3 and A5 subscriptions, respectively. The Office A1 Plus program was introduced in 2015 to ease the provisioning burden for IT of moving users to the cloud. Some of the benefits we expect to see include helping schools reduce some of the security risks associated with legacy storage and data sprawl, a top concern for 80% of IT Leaders 1, while also benefiting our shared environmental footprint. While most customers will not need to reduce their current storage, all customers will need to start considering and implementing new policies for information management and governance. Most schools (99.96%) are well below their storage allotment. Our goal with these changes is to continue to offer education customers generous allowances, new tools to support these changes, and time for thoughtful transitions. While the increase in consumption of technology in education has been beneficial, it has made free, unlimited storage plans prohibitive, and become a large vector for security risks and fraud. ![]() Today Microsoft is introducing changes to our offerings across our Microsoft 365 for Education suite that will place limits on storage and retire the Office A1 Plus program. ![]()
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