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| Get started with Microsoft 365 Education Trial in a Box | Try out Microsoft 365 Education to implement a full cloud infrastructure for your school, manage devices and apps, and configure and deploy policies to your Windows 10 devices. | education, Microsoft 365 Education, trial, full cloud IT solution, school, deploy, setup, manage, Windows 10, Intune for Education, Office 365 for Education, Microsoft Store for Education, Set up School PCs | w10 | deploy | library | hero-article | high | edu | CelesteDG | celested | 12/04/2017 |
Get started: Microsoft 365 Education Trial in a Box
Applies to:
- Windows 10 S Fall Creators Update, Microsoft Intune for Education, Microsoft Store for Education
Hello, IT administrators! In this guide, we'll show you how you can quickly and easily try out Microsoft 365 Education, consisting of all the new and existing cloud services and tools that you need to try out a full IT cloud solution for your school.
What's Trial in a Box?
Microsoft 365 Education Trial in a Box lets you try out Microsoft 365 Education with new Windows 10 devices for education. With Trial in a Box, you:
- Try out two new devices running Windows 10 S Fall Creators Update for just $99
- Get a 12-month trial subscription to Microsoft 365 Education A3
- Can call a customer support hotline for any questions related to Trial in a Box
- Get a quick start guide and device reset tools in the box
- Work with a pre-setup test tenant so you can focus on deploying and managing apps, devices, and users and trying out other features that you get with Microsoft 365 Education
And the devices are for your school to keep!
What's in the IT admin box?
Your box should contain:
- A Getting Started guide
- Two new PCs:
- A notebook running Windows 10 S, Fall Creators Update
- A 2-in-1 laptop running Windows 10 S, Fall Creators Update and a digital pen
- Information about your 12-month trial subscription to Microsoft 365 Education A3, and the services and features included with it
- Information on the customer support hotline
Try out Microsoft 365 Education in 5 easy steps
Get going with Microsoft 365 Education by trying out these 5 easy tasks:
- Log in with your IT admin credentials.
- Reset a password for a user in the Office 365 admin center.
- Go through Intune for Education express configuration.
- Buy an app from Microsoft Store for Education and deploy it to devices in your tenant.
- Add a new default home page for devices in your tenant.
Log in
To get started with your Microsoft 365 Education Trial in a Box, log in with the account credentials included in your box.
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Turn on the notebook, which you can designate as the IT admin device.
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In the log in screen, enter your account details.
Note
To get the most out of Microsoft 365 Education, we've pre-configured your tenant for you so you don't need to set it up. Your tenant is also pre-populated with fictitious Student Information System (SIS) data.
Reset a user password
To reset a password for someone else in your school, follow these steps.
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Go to the Office 365 admin center and sign in with your Office 365 admin credentials.
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In the admin center dashboard, select Users > Edit a user.
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From the list of users, select the user whose password you want to reset amd then select Reset password.
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Choose whether you'd like an auto-generated password or enter a password for the user.
Note
We recommend keeping the Make this user change their password when they first sign in option checked.
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Select Reset to complete resetting the user's password.
Go through Intune for Education express configuration
Intune for Education provides an Express configuration option so you can get going right away. We'll use that option here.
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Log into the Intune for Education console.
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On the Intune for Education dashboard, click Launch Express Configuration or select the Express configuration.
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In the Welcome to Intune for Education screen, click Get started and follow the prompts until you get to the Choose group screen.
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In the Choose group screen, select All Users so that all apps and settings that we select during express setup will apply to this group.
You can choose another group during this step, but note that your experience may vary from what we show in the guide.
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In the Choose apps screen, you will see a selection of desktop (Win32) apps, Web apps, and Microsoft Store apps.
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Add or remove apps by clicking on them. A blue checkmark means the app is added and will be installed for all members of the group selected in the Choose group step.
It's up to you to select the apps you choose to install. Just remember what they are so that later you can verify that the apps were installed correctly on the device.
Tip
Web apps are pushed as links in the Windows Start menu under All apps. If you want apps to appear in Microsoft Edge browser tabs, use the Homepages setting for Microsoft Edge through Express configuration or Manage Users and Devices.
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In the Choose settings screen, set the settings to apply to the group. Expand each settings group to see all the configurable settings.
For example, set these settings:
- In the Basic device settings group, change the Block changing language settings and Block changing device region settings to Block.
- In the Microsoft Edge settings group, change the Block pop-ups setting to Block.
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Click Next and review the list of apps and settings you selected to apply.
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Click Save and then click All done to go back to the dashboard.
Buy and deploy apps
The Microsoft Store for Education is where you can shop for more apps for your school.
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In Intune for Education, select Apps and then in the Store apps section, select + New app to go to the Microsoft Store for Education.
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Select Sign in and start shopping for apps for your school.
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Check some of the categories for suggested apps or search the Store for a free educational or reference app. Find ones that you haven't already installed during express configuration for Intune for Education. For example, these apps are free:
- Duolingo - Learn Languages for Free
- Khan Academy
- My Study Life
- Arduino IDE
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Find or select the app you want to install and click Get the app.
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In the app's Store page, click the ... button and select Add to private store.
Repeat steps 3-5 to install another app or go to the next step.
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Select Manage > Products & services to verify that the apps you purchased appear in your inventory.
The apps will show up in your inventory along with the apps that Microsoft automatically provisioned for your education tenant.
In the Private store column of the Products & services page, the status for some apps will indicate that it's "In private store" while others will say "Adding to private store" or "Not applicable". We won't go over this in the walkthrough, but you can learn more about this in Distribute apps using your private store.
Note
Sync happens automatically, but it may take up to 36 hours for your organization's private store and 12 hours for Intune for Education to sync all your purchased apps.
Add new settings
Update settings for all devices in your tenant by setting a custom lock screen image and a custom desktop image.
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Go or log in to the Intune for Education console.
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Select Group > All Devices > Settings and expand Windows interface customizations.
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In Set custom lock screen image, specify the location of a .jpg or .png less than 20 MB in size to set it as the custom sign-in screen image.
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In Set custom desktop image, specify the location of a .jpg or .png less than 20 MB in size to set it as the custom desktop background.
Get more info
Select one of the following roles to get started for students and teachers.
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