Management Information Sheet

Futher to MI Sheet 224/15 and subsequent feedback from schools, we have reviewed our roll out plan to start from the middle of December until late January 2016. This means ideally we would like to migrate everyone across to the new solution by 31st January 2016 and not 31st December as previously advised.

Action:

A separate email has been sent to all head@ addresses listing the accounts we currently have on record for the school and asking for confirmation of which accounts are in use and will therefore need to be migrated. All accounts that are not required to be migrated will be deleted prior to 31st January 2016, we will advise you of the exact date. To enable us to plan our migration, if you have not already responded to this email, please can you respond by Friday 11th December 2015. Alternatively, If you are sourcing your own email solution and do not wish for your accounts and domain to be migrated, please can you confirm to us by Friday 11th December.

Schools with their own email servers which currently relay through the existing BT service, we will be contacting directly with details of their revised configuration.

What is included with your new Office 365 account:

• Web email with 50 GB of storage
• Office Online (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Calendar and Sway)
• Sharepoint Online
• Skype for Business
• One Drive Online
• Email Encryption

Contract arrangement:

The migration to Microsoft 365 will be covered for schools on the Norfolk Broadband Service until 31st March 2016. From previous communications and the schools' broadband survey customers told us they want the new broadband contract to cover core broadband and internet services and choose to purchase other optional services. This means the Microsoft 365 offering will be available as a separate contract offering from 1st April 2016 for any Norfolk schools and academies. The cost of the service will be £175.00 for up to 10 accounts. Additional accounts can be purchased. Additional accounts can be purchased however for schools with a Protech contract we will not charge for any additional generic email accounts. There are no charges for encryption.

You do not need to make a decision now as these accounts are covered under your broadband contract until 31st March; we can migrate your accounts and then transfer over to you at a later date.

Microsoft 365 for Education is free for web client access. Our fees will cover the support overheads of managing the domain and support for users. This means we will take care of the technical requirements of domain management, spam and malware filters and MX records. For full client licencing queries please email ictcontractsteam@norfolk.gov.uk.

Tanya Allen
Application Manager (Schools)
ICT Shared Services
Norfolk County Council
County Hall
Norwich
NR1 2DH

Email: Tanya.allen@norfolk.gov.uk
Tele: 0845 303 3003