Whitepaper - Deploying Windows 10 in your School District

If you are an IT Pro or manager in a school district then this whitepaper may help you answer a lot of questions about migrating your computers and devices to Windows 10.

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

July 8, 2016

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Whitepaper - Deploying Windows 10 in your School District

If you are an IT Pro or IT Manager in a school district then this whitepaper may help you answer a lot of questions about migrating your computers and devices to Windows 10.

A few weeks ago I shared another similar resource called the Windows 10 for Education TechNet Portal and in that article I briefly mentioned the Set Up School PCs App that can be used to move systems to Windows 10 in a classroom or single school scenario.

This new whitepaper, Deploy Windows 10 in a school district, goes into much greater detail about a district wide roll out of Windows 10 and provides information about all stages of that process from planning to maintenance/management of the entire districts IT infrastructure.

Here is the abstract:

"Responsible for deploying the Windows 10 operating system in your school district? Learn how to integrate your school environments with Microsoft Office 365, Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Deploy Windows 10 and apps to new devices, or upgrade existing devices to Windows 10. Manage staff, faculty, students, apps, and devices through a combination of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Intune, System Center Configuration Manager, and Group Policy."

The 69 page document (PDF, 946KB) is broken down into the following subject areas:

  1. Prepare for district deployment

  2. Select deployment and management methods

  3. Prepare the admin device

  4. Create and configure Office 365

  5. Select an Office 365 user account-creation method

  6. Bulk import users and group accounts into AD DS

  7. Bulk import user and group accounts into Office 365

  8. Assign user licenses for Azure AD Premium

  9. Create and configure a Windows Store for Business portal

  10. Plan for deployment

  11. Prepare for deployment

  12. Capture the reference image

  13. Prepare for device management

  14. Deploy Windows 10 to devices

  15. Maintain Windows devices and Office 365

As you can see this is an in-depth document that is intended to give you all the tools and information you need to perform migrations to most any number of devices.

But, wait...there's probably more so be sure to follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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