Add Office 365 To Exchange Online?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
And the "downside" as discussed in another thread about enterprise pricing is pricing, right?
In that Business Essentials at $5/user is the same as E1 which is $8.
I am not aware of any services that are "the same". Each offering is unique.
While there are a few extras you get for that $3/month/user, none of them were things I personally cared about for my own account.
What I really wanted was Exchange Online - but for $1 more a month It was totally worth it to get the O365 Small Business Essentials package for Office Apps online, 1TB OneDrive for Business, and Sharepoint.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Correct. We provide one line of support and because they come through a high level partner MS gives a higher level of support as well. The agreement is still directly through MS and payment is still directly through MS. We are a partner of record, not a reseller. No money is exchanged with us.
And the financial incentive comes from ... charging for the support? Or can you charge more than MS but MS just does the billing?
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@Dashrender said:
What I really wanted was Exchange Online - but for $1 more a month It was totally worth it to get the O365 Small Business Essentials package for Office Apps online, 1TB OneDrive for Business, and Sharepoint.
That's exactly what I am looking to do.
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Do you just have O365 Small Business Essentials licenses?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Correct. We provide one line of support and because they come through a high level partner MS gives a higher level of support as well. The agreement is still directly through MS and payment is still directly through MS. We are a partner of record, not a reseller. No money is exchanged with us.
And the financial incentive comes from ... charging for the support? Or can you charge more than MS but MS just does the billing?
Microsoft pays us, but there is no charge to customers. Microsoft pays partners for bringing in customers and retaining them.
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Microsoft always charges the same amount, no matter how you come to them. So if you don't go through a partner you just get less for the same money.
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Is that was in that original thread someone said it is too late for us?
Like we could not go through you now, since we are already signed up/
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@BRRABill said:
Is that was in that original thread someone said it is too late for us?
Like we could not go through you now, since we are already signed up/
You might be able to change the partner of record as long as you did not go through a reseller. If you go to a reseller your bridge is burned. If you go direct to MS, you might be able to change it but you can't get the partner of record paid for bringing you in so they might get a tiny amount of compensation for assisting you but nothing like what they should get.
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@Dashrender said:
Do you just have O365 Small Business Essentials licenses?
yes
For some reason I feel like if I switch to SBE I am going to be missing out on something.
But it looks like the Exchange they include is the exact same I am paying $4 for. Plus you get ODfB and other stuff. Seems like a win/win to me.
They also support hybrid on the SMB lines now, which is a plus.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
Do you just have O365 Small Business Essentials licenses?
yes
For some reason I feel like if I switch to SBE I am going to be missing out on something.
Look at what you get for the $8 E1 plan, then decide if you need those things for the extra $3/month/user.
Me personally, nope, the business I work for, perhaps (mostly the email discovery piece). -
@Dashrender said:
Look at what you get for the $8 E1 plan, then decide if you need those things for the extra $3/month/user.
Me personally, nope, the business I work for, perhaps (mostly the email discovery piece).We got 90% of the way to HIPAA compliance, and might be needed that extra $3 worth of stuff in the upcoming future. But for now, we do not.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
Look at what you get for the $8 E1 plan, then decide if you need those things for the extra $3/month/user.
Me personally, nope, the business I work for, perhaps (mostly the email discovery piece).We got 90% of the way to HIPAA compliance, and might be needed that extra $3 worth of stuff in the upcoming future. But for now, we do not.
Now is the time to decide though. If you can't migrate from SMB to E series licenses, you really need to decide now if you need those $3 extras.
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O365 is one of those places where you need to decide early.
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So, I have a couple domains on EO1.
I tried migrating one today, worked like a charm.
I think they've lifted some of the restrictions, maybe.
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It's possible, those things are always changing.
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And holy cow .... there are like 15 more option there now.
Nice $1 add-on!
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@BRRABill
yeah, The whole idea of Hosted Exchange only for $4 really doesn't make sense. And if you're not doing a specific search for it, you'll never find it. It's not listed with the other O365 options. -
Well in my defense, the SMB options weren't as good a few years ago.
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@BRRABill said:
Well in my defense, the SMB options weren't as good a few years ago.
Oh I wasn't meaning to pick on you. Frankly I had no clue there even was a hosted Exchange option until Scott sent me the directed link.
At the same time he said, it's the first link on Google if you search for hosted Exchange. To which my reply was - who would ever do that? You hear about this O365 thing, you've been told that it basically is Exchange online, why would you ever look for hosted Exchange instead of O365?All that said - really? I think the SMB plans might have a little more, but from what I recall, they always had online versions of Office and ODfB and SharePoint.
But maybe you're the person who proves Scott's point - you didn't search for O365, because what you wanted was Hosted Exchange? Maybe?
