u/clayrogers

I'm working with a very small school that is associated with a church. (very common around here) They have a Google Workspace tenant that is the non-profit edition. They also have Chromebooks but they are not managed.

I was working on getting the Chromebooks managed but during the licensing process I discovered that they aren't on the EDU version of Google Workspace.

It is possible to just order a different version of the license that works for non-profit version of GW. But, I'm wondering if it makes sense to go through the work of getting setup with the EDU version first.

I know there are requirements from Google to be setup as an EDU. The school is accredited but I believe it shares a website with the church which Google might not like.

Has anyone gone through something similar? Is it worth trying to navigate the switch to EDU before purchasing the licenses and continuing further down the non-profit path?

I am looking for ideas on an office that uses Sharepoint but ends up having some very long folder paths and file names. The folder structure is decent. They currently use a Onedrive shortcut to access the files.

The main issue is the length of filenames. For example, they sometimes copy hundreds of files that customers send them into the job folder. These files are often received with VERY long file names from the customer.

This results in the path to some of the files being too long and MS Office won't open them.

I came across the subst command in my research. I saw it mentioned on here with people recommending NOT to do it. But, I didn't see much reasoning as to why.

I know of products like Zeedrive and Cloud Drive Mapper. We are just trying to avoid yet ANOTHER subscription if possible.

Can you let me know what issues using the subst command causes? Any other thoughts on how to address this issue? I know the end user could go one by one and shorten each filename they receive from the customer. But, that would slow them down way too much.

Thanks guys!

I am looking for ideas on an office that uses Sharepoint but ends up having some very long folder paths and file names. The folder structure is decent. They currently use a Onedrive shortcut to access the files.

The main issue is the length of filenames. For example, they sometimes copy hundreds of files that customers send them into the job folder. These files are often received with VERY long file names from the customer.

This results in the path to some of the files being too long and MS Office won't open them.

I came across the subst command in my research. I saw it mentioned on here with people recommending NOT to do it. But, I didn't see much reasoning as to why.

I know of products like Zeedrive and Cloud Drive Mapper. We are just trying to avoid yet ANOTHER subscription if possible.

Can you let me know what issues using the subst command causes? Any other thoughts on how to address this issue? I know the end user could go one by one and shorten each filename they receive from the customer. But, that would slow them down way too much.

Thanks guys!