What is the Microsoft Education Solution Guide? (and why it matters)
The Microsoft Education Solution Guide provides guidelines for deploying Microsoft services in an education organization. Rather than presenting a single, one-size-fits-all checklist, it frames deployment as a staged journey you can follow and repeat as your needs grow.
What are the goals and objectives of the Microsoft Education Solution Guide?
- Step-by-step deployment guidance
- License-specific feature breakdown
- Best practices for education environment, or education specific prescriptive guidance
- Secure, compliant implementation
Education-specific prescriptive guidance
Microsoft Education Solution Guide content is intended to show prescriptive guidance that is designed with content that delivers an education perspective to products and features.
How the guide is organized
The guide is described as a set of guidelines that help education customers deploy Microsoft services using a consistent approach. It's broken into stages, with additional capabilities planned for future release.
- Deployment guidelines: prescriptive content that walks through recommended configuration by phase and section.
- Discovery/assessments (future release): evaluation of tenant settings against requirements.
- Drift management (future release): change management, monitoring, and reporting to help maintain your desired configuration over time.
Tip
Use the guide as a planning scaffold. Even if your organization chooses custom requirements, the phase-and-section structure helps you organize work, owners, and timelines.