Blackberry Business Cloud Services & Office365

[shopper150]

Currently we have hosted BES & pay Vodafone for BES (£20 per month) on each handset.

We are looking at moving to Office365, which offers Blackberry Business Cloud Services for no extra charge. Vodafone are offering BES Express for £7.50 a month. Would this work with fully with Office365?

If I had some users with Vodafone on BIS (to save costs), would they still be able to have basic email send/receive via Office365?

Thanks in advance.

 

[knowlesy]

Currently we have hosted BES & pay Vodafone for BES (£20 per month) on each handset.

We are looking at moving to Office365, which offers Blackberry Business Cloud Services for no extra charge. Vodafone are offering BES Express for £7.50 a month. Would this work with fully with Office365?

If I had some users with Vodafone on BIS (to save costs), would they still be able to have basic email send/receive via Office365?

Thanks in advance.

I recently did my first 365 migration from sbs 2003 to 365 about a month ago and the amount of stuff it offers is highly epic, I dont sadly have a true answer to your issue, however I may offer an alternative. As much of a hater I am for windows mobile, it can integrate beautifully with 365 for lync, sharepoint and office docs etc. this would forgo any extra costs for bes ? another thing thing to note intune 3.0 which is round the corner offers mobile management and direct ad integration which might be handy. Currently Exchange can manage mail on phones remote wipe etc.....

on a side question will you be performing the migration yourself ?

 

[Caged]

It's 2012, throw the BlackBerry's away.

I know it doesn't help you much, but seriously there are much better options now, and Office 365 works with everything else right out of the box.