Add Office 365 To Exchange Online?
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@BRRABill said:
What is the difference between the Small Business Suite and the Enterprise? For some reason i thought you could not mix and match.
It used to not be allowed. I have not had a need to purchase a mix so I do not know what happens at this time.
I also seem to remember going with the Exchange Online because the "Small Business" couldn't support the hybrid type of setup I currently have.
This is outside the scope of "what is purchasable" questions. This is a what is right for my needs question.
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I guess what I mean is ... Office 365 Business Essentials looks similar to what I have, except it also has online versions of Office, and 1TB of ODfB. For $1 a month more.
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@BRRABill said:
I guess what I mean is ... Office 365 Business Essentials looks similar to what I have, except it also has online versions of Office, and 1TB of ODfB. For $1 a month more.
My advice go for the Enterprise plans. As if later you want to move from Small Business to an E plan you will need to set-up a new account and transfer the data yourself. (it's happening to me now!)
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@hobbit666 said:
@BRRABill said:
I guess what I mean is ... Office 365 Business Essentials looks similar to what I have, except it also has online versions of Office, and 1TB of ODfB. For $1 a month more.
My advice go for the Enterprise plans. As if later you want to move from Small Business to an E plan you will need to set-up a new account and transfer the data yourself. (it's happening to me now!)
We've seen that happen to a lot of people. Unless you are really confident in never growing to that size, avoid the non-enterprise plans.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We've seen that happen to a lot of people. Unless you are really confident in never growing to that size, avoid the non-enterprise plans.
Considering we have 15 employees, I find it hard to believe we'd grow to that size.
But I do remember not wanting the small business for some reason. So I might just stick with that.
The $5 a month plan just seemed like such a better deal.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
We've seen that happen to a lot of people. Unless you are really confident in never growing to that size, avoid the non-enterprise plans.
Considering we have 15 employees, I find it hard to believe we'd grow to that size.
But I do remember not wanting the small business for some reason. So I might just stick with that.
The $5 a month plan just seemed like such a better deal.
Really no big deal to go with the SMB plans for a small company.
If you are actually growing large enough to need to go past that (from tiny like 15) then the expense of time to change will be worth it anyway.
This goes along with @scottalanmiller's normal spiel of not buying for the future in my mind.
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@BRRABill said:
15 puts us in the SOHO category!
Though it seems like that caps at 10. So we are in the reaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllly small SMB market.
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@BRRABill said:
I've learned we aren't even small business.
15 puts us in the SOHO category!
Well honestly, the S in SMB is no different than the S in SOHO. The differnce is mentality IMO.
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@JaredBusch said:
This goes along with @scottalanmiller's normal spiel of not buying for the future in my mind.
It does, and when we are talking 15 people I agree. If we are talking 250, I'd be wary.
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I have to admit, I never really gave any of the Office stuff much thought.
But this weekend, I started moving my files off my laptop and onto ODfP (is that an acronym?), and I just used it to get the output from MInt to this forum (via my PC).
I didn't realize, but with my OFfP plan I can also edit Office files. Pretty cool.
Though I currently Googling how to turn the "autosave" feature off. Sometimes I don't want to autosave something!
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Interesting.
It does versioning. That is pretty cool as well.
And why haven't I been doing all this? LOL.
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@BRRABill said:
Interesting.
It does versioning. That is pretty cool as well.
And why haven't I been doing all this? LOL.
No idea! A major benefit in systems like this is often "using them as intended." That doesn't apply 100% of the time, but vendors like MS or Google go through a lot of effort to define how they feel a system should be used and they put some crazy research and effort into that.
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BTW: it turns out I do not think I can move from my "Exchange Online Plan 1" to "Office 365 Business Essentials".
The switch plans wizard says I can do it, but from everything I have Googled, it cannot be done.
I guess I could just give it a shot.
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Perhaps a better question would be:
What do people here do? License Exchange Online and other O365 services through Microsoft?
It seemed that most people recommended going elsewhere for Exchange Online, mainly for the support. Is that also the case with the other MS products?
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@BRRABill said:
BTW: it turns out I do not think I can move from my "Exchange Online Plan 1" to "Office 365 Business Essentials".>
That has long been a limitation. You are always stuck to the "track" that you started with. Account migrations are nearly impossible in Office 365. Even when you can do them, they don't always go well.
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@BRRABill said:
What do people here do? License Exchange Online and other O365 services through Microsoft?
At NTG and most of our customers we use Enterprise plans so we can mix and match to our hearts' content.
If you want a different "family" of account, you have to make the decision up front.
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@BRRABill said:
It seemed that most people recommended going elsewhere for Exchange Online, mainly for the support. Is that also the case with the other MS products?
WHO recommends that? That's completely crazy. I've never heard that recommmendation from anyone that wasn't looking to make a quick buck selling double cost services to suckers. I've literally never heard a credible IT person recommend any Exchange host except for Microsoft.
Where are there "other" recommenders?
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My bad. I misread, and then misremembered this from before. It WAS my first thread, im my defense.
"it's to late for you now.. but if you move a company that way..make sure you buy O365 from a reseller.
the cost is exactly the same.. but they become your support.
they can open tickets with MS for you often getting better results."A RESELLER of O365.
Got it.
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@BRRABill said:
My bad. I misread, and then misremembered this from before. It WAS my first thread, im my defense.
"it's to late for you now.. but if you move a company that way..make sure you buy O365 from a reseller.
the cost is exactly the same.. but they become your support.
they can open tickets with MS for you often getting better results."A RESELLER of O365.
Got it.
Never do that either. That was a sloppy misuse of terms. Never buy from a reseller, always buy through a partner. I remember that being posted and noticed at the time that the person posting it got the terms wrong. Reseller bad, partner good.
Getting through a partner means you still get MS O365 with all MS support plus more. But going through a reseller you might shave a little off of the price but you give up control, MS support and more. I would never deal with a reseller for a production business environment, way too risky.
