Add Office 365 To Exchange Online?
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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?
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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.
