Anyone know much about Office365?
Excuse the long ramble, but I think laying our whole intention would hopefully give me the exact answer I require.
We have an office less than 10 people. At present there is a variation in both Windows and Office versions.
The Windows issue is due to be sorted very shortly, and all will be on Windows 7.
Office on the other hand is a different issue altogether. Comparing Office365 to Office 2013 it definitely seems a more cost effective route to go with Office365, so I am already heading down that route.
The two keys things we are looking to achieve it:
1. Unifying the Office suite - We have have a variety of skill levels and having all users on the same version of Office will simply the learning process.
2. Sharing - We are looking to share calenders, contacts and quite frankly anything else that will improve detailed communication within the office.
Unifying the Office suite is not a problem, and I think that 'Office 365 Small Business' will fulfill that role perfectly (and I love many of the new features available that fixing through annoying little problems that occur on a daily basis). However, the sharing aspects leads to a problem. We do not have an exchange server and the main focus of the sharing ability I am not looking to do via the web based apps. Therefore, do I also need 'Exchange Online Plan 1' for all the users to for example share all their contacts and calendars via Outlook 2013?
tl;dr: Do I need 'Office 365 Small Business' and 'Exchange Online Plan 1' in order to share emails, contacts, calenders via Outlook (and I don't mean the web based apps) in a office of less that 10 people?
Excuse the long ramble, but I think laying our whole intention would hopefully give me the exact answer I require.
We have an office less than 10 people. At present there is a variation in both Windows and Office versions.
The Windows issue is due to be sorted very shortly, and all will be on Windows 7.
Office on the other hand is a different issue altogether. Comparing Office365 to Office 2013 it definitely seems a more cost effective route to go with Office365, so I am already heading down that route.
The two keys things we are looking to achieve it:
1. Unifying the Office suite - We have have a variety of skill levels and having all users on the same version of Office will simply the learning process.
2. Sharing - We are looking to share calenders, contacts and quite frankly anything else that will improve detailed communication within the office.
Unifying the Office suite is not a problem, and I think that 'Office 365 Small Business' will fulfill that role perfectly (and I love many of the new features available that fixing through annoying little problems that occur on a daily basis). However, the sharing aspects leads to a problem. We do not have an exchange server and the main focus of the sharing ability I am not looking to do via the web based apps. Therefore, do I also need 'Exchange Online Plan 1' for all the users to for example share all their contacts and calendars via Outlook 2013?
tl;dr: Do I need 'Office 365 Small Business' and 'Exchange Online Plan 1' in order to share emails, contacts, calenders via Outlook (and I don't mean the web based apps) in a office of less that 10 people?
