Microsoft 365 - Virtue Technologies

Cloud Based computing is rapidly increasing in popularity because it offers easy remote access, reduced costs, enhanced security and improved environmental benefits.

Virtue Technologies have carefully designed our portfolio of cloud based services so that we can quickly adapt our services as customers’ requirements evolve, without the need for you to worry about anything.

Office 365 Education offers this kind of flexibility with collaboration tools to benefit teachers and students alike, along with the control, flexibility and data security that is expected.

This impressive range of apps designed for collaboration includes:

Office Online – create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from a browser.

Sway – a new Office 365 app, teachers can create interactive web-based lessons, assignments, project recaps, newsletters, and more – right from a phone, tablet, or browser. Students can use Sway to create engaging reports, assignments, projects, study materials, and portfolios. Sways are easy to share and look great on screen.

Email & calendars – use business-class email through a rich and familiar Outlook experience you can access from your desktop or from a web browser via Outlook Web App. Get a 50 GB mailbox per user and send attachments up to 150 MB.

Advanced email – use archiving and legal hold capabilities, plus unlimited storage, for compliance needs. And use data loss prevention (DLP) policies and policy tips that educate your users for additional compliance enforcement in email.

Rights Management Services – enables you to restrict access to documents and email to specific people and to prevent anyone else from viewing or editing them, even if they are sent outside the organisation.

Unified eDiscovery Centre – you can search across SharePoint, Skype for Business, and Exchange mailboxes. eDiscovery integrates with advanced retention and archiving, enabling in-place legal hold and case-based projects.

Online classes & conferencing – host online classes, parent-teacher conferences and more with audio and video using one-click screen sharing and HD video conferencing.

Instant messaging & Skype connectivity – connect with other Skype for Business users via instant message, voice calls, and video calls, and let people know your availability with your online status. Share presence, IM, and audio calling with Skype users.

OneDrive – OneDrive for Business gives each user 1 TB of personal cloud storage that can be accessed from anywhere. Easily share documents with others inside and outside your organisation and control who can see and edit each file.

Team sites – work together on projects with team sites that help keep related documents, notes, tasks, and conversations organised together.

Office 365 Video – easily manage videos within your organisation. Office 365 Video is a school-wide destination for video uploads, sharing and discovery, and smooth playback across devices.

YAMMER – secure, private social networking for your school. Yammer collaboration software helps students and teachers connect with each other, share information, and organise around projects so they can work and learn better together.

Office Mobile – sync email, calendar, and contacts; access SharePoint sites; view and edit Office documents with Office Mobile on Windows Phone, iPhones, and Android phones, and with Office Online using a browser on Windows Phones, iOS, and Android devices. Use the OneNote, OWA and SharePoint Newsfeed apps on most devices.

Office Delve – stay in the know. Search and discover content across Office 365 based on personalised insights. Office Delve is the first experience to be powered by Office Graph, a collection of analysed signals or insights derived from each user’s behaviour and relationships to content, topics, and contacts.

Apps for Office and SharePoint – new third-party and customer-developed apps work with Office and SharePoint to bring web services right into your documents and sites.

The Virtue Approach

Virtue Technologies will make migrating to Office 365 hassle free, whether it’s integrating Office 365 into your existing IT infrastructure or outsourcing the administration of your plan, we are here to help you every step of the way. We will:

Identify needs and how Office 365 and other solutions can help solve them
Assess your current IT infrastructure, how it can be improved, and how to get ready for Office 365
Choose the right mix of Office 365 plans to get the services you need to achieve your educational goals
Develop a roadmap for your IT investments going forward
Providing comprehensive deployment and migration assistance to ensure that the transition is smooth
Configuring the services to meet your needs and customising SharePoint Online to your specific needs
Managing services such as Microsoft Teams
Training your users and IT administrators how to get the most out of Office 365
Performing administrative tasks such as resetting passwords and setting up new user accounts
Providing add-on solutions to Office 365, such as: Exchange Online/SharePoint Online personal archive, SharePoint Online workflows, document management solutions, etc.

Prior to the move to Office 365 we had problems sharing our school events calendar which has dates crucial to staff. The move to Office 365 has rectified this and staff can access the events via any device. The system has been easily accessible both inside and outside school and the addition of OneDrive with access to Microsoft Office is excellent for students and staff
Geoff Diggles, Network Manager at Our Lady’s Catholic High School

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What our customers say

Some of the nice words our customers say about their experience

For such a young man, Sam presented himself in such a polite and professional manner. His confidence around his knowledge and skillset was second to none, and his conversation was engaging. It was pleasant to come across such a motivated and enthusiastic young character.

I wanted to say thanks to Paul for all the work that he did in terms of the report. I honestly don’t know what would have happened without his input! It is very much appreciated. Many thanks again.

Excellent support from Myles. Above and beyond what I was hoping. Investigated the issues, and implemented the solution and then took time to explain and show me what had been implemented.

Paul setup InTune to save us time and lay the foundations so we have a recommended configuration to build upon, and be able to setup new surface tablets with a cloud first approach. I really enjoyed working with Paul on this and his knowledge and experience in this area was excellent

Thanks for the time and effort both Tracey and Zarra had undertaken in turning a negative situation in general to a very positive feeling. I am very much looking forward to working with Virtue moving forward on upcoming service, solutions and projects.

Great turn around, communication and engagement, at its best!

I want to let you know that the IT Team you have a great. They have all been really supportive of any request for assistance and nothing is ever too much trouble for them to help with. Thanks

Richard was a superb engineer, I was off on the day he came in to complete this project but he worked really well with my deputy James. Richard explained to James what he was doing/did and they were able to relay the information back to myself when I returned. James was very impressed with Richard and I’m glad to say everything went very well with this mini-project. Cheers

Thank you. I can’t praise Ryan enough, he did everything he could to sort it. Thank you for accommodating the schedule change. Also, thanks to Mike for his value input last week. Two great engineers who do your company proud.
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The quality of the quotes and the process Virtue have for order confirmations (along with the speed at which they are generated) was significantly better than all the other businesses we dealt with. Virtue made it really easy for us.

I just want to let you know that lots of my staff are speaking really positively about the support they’ve received from Virtue.

Ed has been onsite over the past couple of weeks, he has been excellent in terms of the work ethic and support that he has and is giving to the School.

When spoken to Dragos regarding support related calls he has been helpful, reassuring and been as helpful as possible on every occasion.

Patricia is a great asset to Team Virtue. Her quick responses to any question posed are what customers need and, if she’s not able to answer, she always put us at ease by forwarding our query elsewhere. Requests for quotes are quick and detailed, and it’s great to know there’s a friendly voice/email at the other end if ever we need it.

CTouch screens provided by Virtue have been a huge investment throughout the school. The hardware provides various visual stimulus and have increased the accessibility for all our children. When combined with our specialist software the children are able to access their learning at their own level through practical, inspirational and creative media.

Virtue Technologies actually understand what goes on in schools, it’s not all about a computer on a desk, it’s about the experience for the students. I think we share that with Virtue.

Timings were adapted to suit the school environment and teams were punctual, tidy, helpful and courteous. Just keep doing what you’re doing! Very satisfied.