Office365 Considerations
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Resellers work by lowering the price, selling in bulk and not giving you the protections of real O365.
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@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:
No minimum commitments with O365. Any minimums are from a reseller.
And I suppose resellers tout they can get you better support so you'll sign with them too. It makes sense.
No. partners get better support. Resellers get less (or none).
So if you had a technical problem you could get your partner to push MS to get your issue resolved quicker? That definitely helps.
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:
No minimum commitments with O365. Any minimums are from a reseller.
And I suppose resellers tout they can get you better support so you'll sign with them too. It makes sense.
No. partners get better support. Resellers get less (or none).
So if you had a technical problem you could get your partner to push MS to get your issue resolved quicker? That definitely helps.
Yes. Partners get additional support from MS that you can't get without a partner. It's a free upgrade.
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How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
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@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
Do you use eDiscovery functionalities of O365 at all? If so, how do you like it?
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@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
I assume if something gets stuck that was legit you can go in and release it like with most spam filters?
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It's not bad. I still get way too much though.
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It looks like you get Skype for Business with the E3 plan for meetings / video chats / screen sharing. Do I have that right?
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
I assume if something gets stuck that was legit you can go in and release it like with most spam filters?
Yepp!
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
Do you use eDiscovery functionalities of O365 at all? If so, how do you like it?
I know we do use it, but I don't have access to it, so I can't help you there.
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@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
Do you use eDiscovery functionalities of O365 at all? If so, how do you like it?
I know we do use it, but I don't have access to it, so I can't help you there.
What about effort it took to get your environment to O365? Were there any big tweaks to AD needed? I had a reseller tell me they normally have to do 8 or more hours of work to AD to get things "working."
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I didnt have any trouble getting my AD tied to O365. I use the DIR Sync for accounts and passwords, no ADFS, no Single Sign on.
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What is in it for the partner, then?
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
Do you use eDiscovery functionalities of O365 at all? If so, how do you like it?
I know we do use it, but I don't have access to it, so I can't help you there.
What about effort it took to get your environment to O365? Were there any big tweaks to AD needed? I had a reseller tell me they normally have to do 8 or more hours of work to AD to get things "working."
This environment was already set up. We just use the DirSync tool at my last employer.
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
It looks like you get Skype for Business with the E3 plan for meetings / video chats / screen sharing. Do I have that right?
Yes, but last I knew regular old Skype was way better than SfB. We had nothing but trouble with it, but it was pretty early on. Things may have gotten better since we abandoned SfB.
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@BRRABill said in Office365 Considerations:
What is in it for the partner, then?
MS perks. Sadly, not as many as there were at the onset.
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
It looks like you get Skype for Business with the E3 plan for meetings / video chats / screen sharing. Do I have that right?
Yes, sadly it comes with that crap.
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@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?
It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.
Do you use eDiscovery functionalities of O365 at all? If so, how do you like it?
I know we do use it, but I don't have access to it, so I can't help you there.
What about effort it took to get your environment to O365? Were there any big tweaks to AD needed? I had a reseller tell me they normally have to do 8 or more hours of work to AD to get things "working."
AD does not get touched. You just run a sync tool to sync your AD to Azure AD.
Don't even talk to resellers, there is no value in it. Nothing that they tell you is about O365, it's about themselves. There is no "process" to get AD working, you just install the sync and you are done.
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@art_of_shred said in Office365 Considerations:
@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:
It looks like you get Skype for Business with the E3 plan for meetings / video chats / screen sharing. Do I have that right?
Yes, but last I knew regular old Skype was way better than SfB. We had nothing but trouble with it, but it was pretty early on. Things may have gotten better since we abandoned SfB.
Do you guys use the MS Teams chat-based workspace?
