Actually not in this particular case, the university had MS365 Business and gave us accounts in order for us to use the service.
Sounds like this university was an absolute shitshow then.
I'm fine with the LNP being out of power for a decade. They are trash. They're Labor-lite. I've literally never voted for them.
What is? M365 Business? M365 Family or Personal? Office suite outright purchase?
60TB of my own hosted cloud.
2TB Google
2TB Microsoft
2TB Apple
Unlimited IDrive for mobile photos/videos backup.
Synology NAS’s are amazing, can’t recommend them enough. Their software is what makes them so good.
You can run Plex server on them, can run docker containers for all your *arr services and even a container with a VPN for torrentin (all depends on the model obviously).
Strange, I've had no issue controlling NFS shares or ACLs. Have set up 4 Synology NAS's, with shares out the wahzoo. No problems. User error maybe?
That disk upgrade thing was a mountain out of a molehill. All they are doing is reserving some of their disk health features for synology branded disks because they're the only ones they can verify meet their standards for their software.