Add Office 365 To Exchange Online?
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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?
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@Dashrender no worries... more a sarcastic joke on myself that (like most things) didn't come across via text, lol
I came to hosted exchange kind of the same way ... holy cow I can get Exchange Online for $4 a month? Your thought process at the time is almost exactly what mine was.
I've referred people there who were looking for more than just simple email. It's great for what you pay.
They had the SMB option back then, but there was no $5 option, to my recollection.
We are still using Office 2007 with no issues. so for my company, I didn't see the need for a move to paying for the Office apps, so I just did the e-mail. But now with ODfB thrown in, and hybrid configurations supported, it's a no brainer.
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If you don't need locally installed Office Apps, the SMB $5/m/u plan is awesome. Online Office Apps, SharePoint, ODfB, 1 TB storage space, etc.
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@Dashrender said:
If you don't need locally installed Office Apps, the SMB $5/m/u plan is awesome. Online Office Apps, SharePoint, ODfB, 1 TB storage space, etc.
I think the OP said he needed/wanted desktop versions.
Otherwise I agree.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
If you don't need locally installed Office Apps, the SMB $5/m/u plan is awesome. Online Office Apps, SharePoint, ODfB, 1 TB storage space, etc.
I think the OP said he needed/wanted desktop versions.
Otherwise I agree.
You are correct, he did. I was asking why? We have two or three users in my company who use integrated software that integrates directly with locally installed apps. Those people need local versions of Word/Excel/Outlook. The rest would be totally fine working with solely online versions. If we save everything into SharePoint, then it should be pretty much universally accessible.
Now to figure out how to make all the shared files remain shared with the use of SharePoint.
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@Dashrender said:
The rest would be totally fine working with solely online versions. If we save everything into SharePoint, then it should be pretty much universally accessible.
This is where your idea fails. When you setup folders in the Documents section of the default SharePoint team Site, you cannot open the document in Office Online. You only have the option to download it or open it in the full client. Clicking on the document, downloads it. Clicking edit will download it.
If you have a document in ODfB, you can open it in Office Online easily.
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This account I am sign in with does have access to Excel Online.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
The rest would be totally fine working with solely online versions. If we save everything into SharePoint, then it should be pretty much universally accessible.
This is where your idea fails. When you setup folders in the Documents section of the default SharePoint team Site, you cannot open the document in Office Online. You only have the option to download it or open it in the full client. Clicking on the document, downloads it. Clicking edit will download it.
If you have a document in ODfB, you can open it in Office Online easily.
What happens if you just click on the file name instead of the ellipses?
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I just tried it on mine, if I clicked the three dots, correct I only get the options to download, but if I click directly on the name of the file it opens in the online product.
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@Dashrender said:
What happens if you just click on the file name instead of the ellipses?
It downloads it. I said that.
Windows with Chrome, IE, and Firefox.
OS X with Safari and Chrome.All do the same thing.
Move the same file to the personal ODfB folder for the user and it opens right up in Excel online.
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Weird, I'm on a SMB plan in Firefox and it opens in the online version.
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I can open Office files online with my SMB plan as well.
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@BRRABill said:
I can open Office files online with my SMB plan as well.
from inside the default team site in Sharepoint?
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@Dashrender said:
from inside the default team site in Sharepoint?
I only tried from clicking ODfB in that same portal screen.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
from inside the default team site in Sharepoint?
I only tried from clicking ODfB in that same portal screen.
JB is saying that ODfB always works.. he's have a problem when trying to edit a file inside SharePoint, specifically the default team site.
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@Dashrender said:
JB is saying that ODfB always works.. he's have a problem when trying to edit a file inside SharePoint, specifically the default team site.
SharePoint is new to me (as you have seen) ... let me add a file in there and see.
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i just logged into a client's account that has an E3 account. I created an excel file in the default team site and it opened up just fine in the online version.
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So I went to the Sites tile. It said welcome to (my org) SharePoint, etc etc etc.
I uploaded a file, then went to Documents, and it opened in Excel Online.
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Soooooooooooooooooooo
This SharePoint thing still confuses me.
How does my account's ODfB account and the Team??? SharePoint site interact?
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@Dashrender said:
i just logged into a client's account that has an E3 account. I created an excel file in the default team site and it opened up just fine in the online version.
So this means. I need to log in to shadow someone logged in with an admin account and verify the subscription level.
Your behavior is the behavior I expected also, but it did not work when I tested a month ago.
