Personal Email Solution

dlockers · 2 Jan 2020 at 14:42

Hi guys, I've put this here as it started off as an Enterprise test bed.

I've been using Exchange Online (Plan 1), £3.60 a month, with my own domain for several years now. This was back when I was an Office 365 enthusiast. I've also been paying £1.99/mo for 100GB OneDrive in my personal account.

I'm now far away from IT but still have Plan 1 email, which I use with Outlook on my personal/professional machines. This is perfect for me as I rarely use Webmail. I also prefer my own domain name email address.

Question - with the latest plan updates I can now get Office 365 Essentials for £3.80/mo excl VAT and this comes with 1TB of OneDrive versus my 100GB.

Is there any risks associated with the enterprise edition of OneDrive? Overall this will save me pennies but I could do with the additional space and the consumer upgrade is about 3x the price of this solution.

Thanks.

lumencreative · 2 Jan 2020 at 15:26

I’ve not used the personal version of OneDrive but we use the enterprise version and are very happy with it. It’s a different iOS/Android app I believe (OneDrive Business) but other than that I think they’re pretty much the same.

Glanza · 2 Jan 2020 at 16:08

No issues with the enterprise version of onedrive, for most end users it's the exact same thing.

the-evaluator · 3 Jan 2020 at 07:02

dLockers said:
with the latest plan updates I can now get Office 365 Essentials for £3.80/mo excl VAT and this comes with 1TB of OneDrive versus my 100GB.

Thanks for posting that. I've been using EOL Plan 1 for several years and recently wanted to bin off my Dropbox account so I stumpted up £3.80/month (ex VAT) for OneDrive for Business which gave me 1Tb. I had no idea that Office 365 Business Essentials incluced EOL Plan 1 & OneDrive for Business so I've changed my subscription accordingly. It's not a huge saving but there's no point paying more than I need to.

The OneDrive and OneDrive for Business client are the same thing now, they have been for a few years. When there was a seperate OneDrive for Business client it was a nightmare, the sync was very unreliable.

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jan 2020 at 11:56

I don't bother I just stick to my apple mail. Free and perfect.

dlockers · 3 Jan 2020 at 14:38

the-evaluator said:
Thanks for posting that. I've been using EOL Plan 1 for several years and recently wanted to bin off my Dropbox account so I stumpted up £3.80/month (ex VAT) for OneDrive for Business which gave me 1Tb. I had no idea that Office 365 Business Essentials incluced EOL Plan 1 & OneDrive for Business so I've changed my subscription accordingly. It's not a huge saving but there's no point paying more than I need to.

The OneDrive and OneDrive for Business client are the same thing now, they have been for a few years. When there was a seperate OneDrive for Business client it was a nightmare, the sync was very unreliable.

Is it as simple as swapping over the licenses? I remember switching between some E and P plans was a case of migrating!

the-evaluator · 3 Jan 2020 at 16:39

mrbell1984 said:
I don't bother I just stick to my apple mail. Free and perfect.

Not overly perfect if like me you want to use your own domain name.

the-evaluator · 3 Jan 2020 at 16:43

dLockers said:
Is it as simple as swapping over the licenses? I remember switching between some E and P plans was a case of migrating!

If you want to upgrade all your EOL P1's to Business Essentials then you can go to Billing -> Products & Services, Click on 'Exchange Online (Plan 1)' and there's an upgrade option there.

I only wanted to upgrade 1/4 of my EOL P1 licenses so I had to do it by purchasing Business Essentials, assigning that license to my user and then unassigning then OneDrive & EOL licenses before going back into Products & Services and decreasing the EOL licenses by 1 and cancelling the OneDrive subscription.