Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?
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We have the and use Office 365 Enterprise E1 which includes Exchange, Yammer, SharePoint, Skype, Delve, Sway, Powerapps, etc. We basically only use Exchange and Skype.
A project manager came to me and asked why he can't see other peoples calendars in Outlook (desktop app). He wants them to start using the calendar for project due dates and updates. I immediately thought we could take advantage of these other Office 365 Enterprise E1 tools rather than use the somewhat archaic Outlook Desktop program.
Is Outlook and shared calendars still the best or can we use these other tools with relative ease?
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You just replace Outlook desktop with Outlook Web Access. That part is a simple one to one replacement.
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"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
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How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
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@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
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You can set up "Office 365 Group"s in there can't you?
I think E1 users can use the "Planner" app when they log in. Not able to verify this atm though.
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@Tim_G said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
You can set up "Office 365 Group"s in there can't you?
I think E1 users can use the "Planner" app when they log in. Not able to verify this atm though.
Well, as mentioned, it would take a major, major effort to get them off the Outlook Client...it would...
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Do you have a split domain? i.e. some users on a local Exchange and others on O365 native?
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@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
Do you have a split domain? i.e. some users on a local Exchange and others on O365 native?
Everyone is on the cloud based E1 Plan.
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@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
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@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
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@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
Wow
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@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
Wow
That could be worth it. How much would the Exchange CALs, server license, hardware/storage, upkeep, labor, etc. cost per year if it was onprem?
A lot of places spend 100k+ per year on O365 alone...
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@Tim_G said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
Wow
That could be worth it. How much would the Exchange CALs, server license, hardware/storage, upkeep, labor, etc. cost per year if it was onprem?
A lot of places spend 100k+ per year on O365 alone...
He got everything you listed for $6K... the $14K savings was locally installed Office. ($14,000 / $144/u/y = 97 users)
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@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
Sure you'll have this savings, but how much did you pay for Office last time? and do you really need local Office? Will Office Online and SharePoint/ODfB work for you?
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@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
Sure you'll have this savings, but how much did you pay for Office last time? and do you really need local Office? Will Office Online and SharePoint/ODfB work for you?
We are Macro and VBA fiends here...and I've not had the time to even do my studies to learn more development skills, even with Office 365 options.
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@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?
Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)
https://i.imgur.com/HTrM74c.png
There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.
You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.
I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.
I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...
I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.
As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.
Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.
Sure you'll have this savings, but how much did you pay for Office last time? and do you really need local Office? Will Office Online and SharePoint/ODfB work for you?
We are Macro and VBA fiends here...and I've not had the time to even do my studies to learn more development skills, even with Office 365 options.
OH - well that makes full out online only a problem
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I'm now wondering - even if you did have Outlook 2016, would that way you created the calendar provide a calendar in Outlook 2016?
I'm unfamiliar with group calendars as you've created it currently in O365.
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@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:
I'm unfamiliar with group calendars as you've created it currently in O365.
Is there more than one way to make them? There isn't any "O365 Calendar", it's always just Exchange.
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The way these types of workflows work in Sharepoint Online are through sites there. You would create a calendar associated with your group, e.g. Project A Calendar in Project Management site. Planner is also linked to a given site (team or otherwise).
