Checklist for building the right guidelines and governance around Microsoft 365 storage 

Higher education institutions get four essential capabilities with CoreView’s LEAD program to make this transition easy 

Is your team working through processes and policies to get in front of changes being made to Microsoft Education’s pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange? Get started with CoreView’s checklist for building the right guidelines and governance around Microsoft 365 storage. 

  • Identify inactive users, groups and sites IT can target for cleanup and removal. 
  • Identify orphaned OneDrives for cleanup – de-licensed users, alumni licenses with OneDrives left behind. 
  • Use playbooks and automated workflows to support rollout of new storage policies for students, faculty and staff, departments, alumni and retirees and mitigation of issues. 
  • Delegate tasks needed to investigate and remediate storage issues before your new licensing takes effect while maintaining security. 
  • Report on how often SharePoint sites are utilized, identifying sites that could be archived. 
  • Use Virtual Tenants and Perfect Permissions to delegate administration with only the access needed to investigate and address storage issues while maintaining full oversight of your environment. 
  • Monitor and enforce policies with automated governance, reducing your risk of unexpected storage costs, and freeing up IT staff time. 
  • Update licenses to “right size” user storage. 
  • Update and enforce Exchange storage policies. 
  • Identify old/unused/former student and employee mailboxes that could be migrated to mailbox types that don’t count against storage quota.

Let CoreView help you take the LEAD on your institution’s storage strategy for Microsoft 365

With major swings in active users each academic year for students, alumni, faculty and staff, and storage utilization by engineering and data science schools, your team will need consistent and persistent visibility into storage utilization, so you avoid any unexpected costs or disruptions. 

Best of all, with CoreView, you can confidently implement and enforce new policies to keep storage costs under control. 

With CoreView’s LEAD program, higher education institutions get four essential capabilities to make this transition easy: 

  • Learn about your tenant with CoreView analysis: Based on user types, storage policies or other custom criteria, CoreView can identify areas that require data purging, back-up or archiving. 
  • Empower teams to audit storage: CoreView helps central IT teams offer autonomy to different departments that need to investigate and create remediation plans by delegating admin capabilities/permissions without compromising security. 
  • Automate policy management: CoreView helps define the types of policies and associated actions that make sense for your organization, which are captured in Playbooks that can automate remediation steps without tying up admin time. 
  • Deploy multi-tiered storage backup plans: CoreView bridges the gap between OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange data that users need to archive and the storage systems they want to put in place.

About CoreView 

CoreView is the #1 Microsoft 365 management platform, delivering powerful tenant segmentation, license management, governance, and workflow automation capabilities to IT teams who are transforming the way they run their Microsoft 365 stack. 

College and university IT teams choose CoreView to manage their complex Microsoft 365 environments and provide the best experiences for students, faculty, staff and alumni. 

With CoreView, institutions can control complexity and costs, optimize administration, resolve security and compliance issues automatically, and empower their IT teams and workforce. 

Together, we can take the LEAD on your Microsoft 365 storage strategy 

With major swings in active users each academic year for students, alumni, faculty and staff, and storage utilization by engineering and data science schools, your team will need consistent and persistent visibility into storage utilization, so you avoid any unexpected costs or disruptions. 

With CoreView, you can confidently implement and enforce new policies to keep storage costs under control. 

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