LibreOffice Online
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@Dashrender You keep pushing the $5 Office Business Essentials plan. Have you used it? As I posted in another thread, it seem rather limited to me when it comes to working with documents in the online versions.
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It is limited, sure, but how limited? are you talking about users who live eat and breath Office apps? sure those people will hate online versions. But I only have 3 of those people in my office. The rest of my office can get away with the online only version. I'll buy 3 $12.50 licenses with full local Office and save the money on the rest.
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So yesterday we announced that we're working with Collabora on this. They were already working on this (sssht, secret) and when the cat went out of the bag, as linked by the topic poster, they hired the guys who did the work on that one to keep them from ruining the fun
Some time next year (not before summer!), there'll be a product based on this. Awesome features like collaborative editing are coming, too, this wasn't really meant to be advertised before January (FOSDEM!) but, well, the students-who-are-now-hired started the fire early.
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That's some awesome news @jospoortvliet
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Now that's awesome. Can't wait to get this with LibreOffice and ownCloud. That will certainly be a game changer!
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender You keep pushing the $5 Office Business Essentials plan. Have you used it? As I posted in another thread, it seem rather limited to me when it comes to working with documents in the online versions.
It's definitely limited, but for very simple stuff it works great. Like simple editing and printing.
Also, the bump from $4 exchange-only to $5 SMB Essentials also gets you a ton of ODfB space. Worth it probably.
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@BRRABill said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender You keep pushing the $5 Office Business Essentials plan. Have you used it? As I posted in another thread, it seem rather limited to me when it comes to working with documents in the online versions.
It's definitely limited, but for very simple stuff it works great. Like simple editing and printing.
Also, the bump from $4 exchange-only to $5 SMB Essentials also gets you a ton of ODfB space. Worth it probably.
If you follow along and find the other thread I referenced, you will find that the issue was referring to is the ability for Sharepoint Team site documents to be opened in Excel online. The issue itself turns out to be that it only works with XLSX files in the team site, where the ODfB location can open XLS or XLSX files.
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@JaredBusch said:
If you follow along and find the other thread I referenced, you will find that the issue was referring to is the ability for Sharepoint Team site documents to be opened in Excel online. The issue itself turns out to be that it only works with XLSX files in the team site, where the ODfB location can open XLS or XLSX files.
I don't think what I posted disagrees with you.
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@JaredBusch said:
@BRRABill said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender You keep pushing the $5 Office Business Essentials plan. Have you used it? As I posted in another thread, it seem rather limited to me when it comes to working with documents in the online versions.
It's definitely limited, but for very simple stuff it works great. Like simple editing and printing.
Also, the bump from $4 exchange-only to $5 SMB Essentials also gets you a ton of ODfB space. Worth it probably.
If you follow along and find the other thread I referenced, you will find that the issue was referring to is the ability for Sharepoint Team site documents to be opened in Excel online. The issue itself turns out to be that it only works with XLSX files in the team site, where the ODfB location can open XLS or XLSX files.
Yeah I recall us discovering that inconsistency. It's one good way to PUSH people to save those documents as the new format.
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@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@BRRABill said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender You keep pushing the $5 Office Business Essentials plan. Have you used it? As I posted in another thread, it seem rather limited to me when it comes to working with documents in the online versions.
It's definitely limited, but for very simple stuff it works great. Like simple editing and printing.
Also, the bump from $4 exchange-only to $5 SMB Essentials also gets you a ton of ODfB space. Worth it probably.
If you follow along and find the other thread I referenced, you will find that the issue was referring to is the ability for Sharepoint Team site documents to be opened in Excel online. The issue itself turns out to be that it only works with XLSX files in the team site, where the ODfB location can open XLS or XLSX files.
Yeah I recall us discovering that inconsistency. It's one good way to PUSH people to save those documents as the new format.
Ain't there a GPO for that? lol
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@art_of_shred said:
@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@BRRABill said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender You keep pushing the $5 Office Business Essentials plan. Have you used it? As I posted in another thread, it seem rather limited to me when it comes to working with documents in the online versions.
It's definitely limited, but for very simple stuff it works great. Like simple editing and printing.
Also, the bump from $4 exchange-only to $5 SMB Essentials also gets you a ton of ODfB space. Worth it probably.
If you follow along and find the other thread I referenced, you will find that the issue was referring to is the ability for Sharepoint Team site documents to be opened in Excel online. The issue itself turns out to be that it only works with XLSX files in the team site, where the ODfB location can open XLS or XLSX files.
Yeah I recall us discovering that inconsistency. It's one good way to PUSH people to save those documents as the new format.
Ain't there a GPO for that? lol
Only for setting the default save option - not for converting.
I.e. if you open an old version, you can save to that old version with no extra prompts.
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@Dashrender said:
It is limited, sure, but how limited? are you talking about users who live eat and breath Office apps? sure those people will hate online versions. But I only have 3 of those people in my office. The rest of my office can get away with the online only version. I'll buy 3 $12.50 licenses with full local Office and save the money on the rest.
Can you move those O365 licenses around? Or are they tied to the user?
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What do you mean?
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
It is limited, sure, but how limited? are you talking about users who live eat and breath Office apps? sure those people will hate online versions. But I only have 3 of those people in my office. The rest of my office can get away with the online only version. I'll buy 3 $12.50 licenses with full local Office and save the money on the rest.
Can you move those O365 licenses around? Or are they tied to the user?
Do you mean can I move those three licenses I buy?
They are tied to the user. They can only be used by the three employees who I purchase the full install for.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
It is limited, sure, but how limited? are you talking about users who live eat and breath Office apps? sure those people will hate online versions. But I only have 3 of those people in my office. The rest of my office can get away with the online only version. I'll buy 3 $12.50 licenses with full local Office and save the money on the rest.
Can you move those O365 licenses around? Or are they tied to the user?
Well.... that's a weird thing to ask, really. Sure you can move them around, but why? What's your goal here?
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@Dashrender said:
They are tied to the user. They can only be used by the three employees who I purchase the full install for.
Pretty sure that if someone comes to NTG and I leave that they don't have to, by license, delete my account and create a new one (especially as the pricing is identical) but the new employee is able to assume my identity and keep using my accounts as if they were me.
Why? I have no idea why someone would do this. But I believe that you CAN.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
They are tied to the user. They can only be used by the three employees who I purchase the full install for.
Pretty sure that if someone comes to NTG and I leave that they don't have to, by license, delete my account and create a new one (especially as the pricing is identical) but the new employee is able to assume my identity and keep using my accounts as if they were me.
Why? I have no idea why someone would do this. But I believe that you CAN.
Oh sure, that's no different than me never creating new users on Active Directory - Bob quit last month and we hired Fred, but instead of creating a new account for Fred, we'll just make him use Bob's old account with Bob's old username, etc. But that seems kinda crazy.
As for the Office install - Assuming you were more normal and did delete Bob's account and created a new one for Fred, The admins would just make sure Bob was logged out of the Local Office installation, then Fred would log into the Office install. No reinstall would be needed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Well.... that's a weird thing to ask, really. Sure you can move them around, but why? What's your goal here?
I was thinking in a scenario where only certain people needed (or sometime needed to use) Office at certain times, you could just assign the license to them on an as needed basis. It would get too complicated to manage large scale, obviously. But perhaps one Client required it, and every person who was assigned to work with that client would get an Office license while they were working with them.
Like having a computer in the common area that had Office on it, but in the cloud world.
Yeah, probably too much to even think of thinking about.
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@Dashrender said:
As for the Office install - Assuming you were more normal and did delete Bob's account and created a new one for Fred, The admins would just make sure Bob was logged out of the Local Office installation, then Fred would log into the Office install. No reinstall would be needed.
But you would have to reassign the license to Fred, right?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
It is limited, sure, but how limited? are you talking about users who live eat and breath Office apps? sure those people will hate online versions. But I only have 3 of those people in my office. The rest of my office can get away with the online only version. I'll buy 3 $12.50 licenses with full local Office and save the money on the rest.
Can you move those O365 licenses around? Or are they tied to the user?
Well.... that's a weird thing to ask, really. Sure you can move them around, but why? What's your goal here?
Someone asked me this last night because they wanted to cheat.
Small company of 5 people, 5 computers. The question was asked - can they purchase one license of O365 that includes the local install of Office and install that single license on all 5 computer for all 5 users to use. Then have the company buy 4 Exchange only licenses for the other employees?
I said no, that the local install by license is limited to only the user that license is assigned to.
