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Hi all. Any users of Office 365? Does it work well with Office 2010? Which version of Office 365 and who is your service provider? Any recommendations? Your comments would be much appreciated. Thanks

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By stacey03
27th Feb 2014 12:34

365

We were warned not to use this. Mainly because we are IRIS/INVU based and when microsoft release a new version of excel, for example, you are apparently immediately upgraded to this new version and (again apparently) there is no option to downgrade.

IRIS & INVU both take time to start working with these new versions and we had to downgrade our version 2010 of microsoft for a while to make sure that everything still worked in IRIS & INVU, we'd have been stuck if we'd been on 365.

I would point out that this was information from IT and an Invu techie. It may need clarification.

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By M GD
27th Feb 2014 13:53

thanks a lot for your input

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By Maslins
27th Feb 2014 14:08

Not a fan

Your desired usage is perhaps very different to ours, but we were "sold" on the brilliance of Office 365 for everything, email hosting, Skydrive etc etc.

The whole thing's been a nightmare.  Skydrive's seemingly limited to 5,000 files without dodgy workarounds.  We're not a massive practice, but by the time you consider every pdf/spreadsheet/whatever we're at 20,000 files.

I'm sure for some people it works well, but the above was just one thing that proved a massive disappointment for us and not the "solve everything" thing we were suggested it was.

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By M GD
27th Feb 2014 14:37

Something I didn't know. Thanks a lot for this. I agree with you, 5,000 files is very limited. Thanks

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By dnicholson
27th Feb 2014 15:29

Skydrive

Well I've got nearly 15,000 files on my SkyDrive account (now OneDrive).

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By Maslins
27th Feb 2014 15:47

Business or pleasure...

dnicholson wrote:

Well I've got nearly 15,000 files on my SkyDrive account (now OneDrive).

Is that the personal or business version?  From what I gather (bizarrely) the business version has a lower limit of 5,000.

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By dnicholson
27th Feb 2014 15:53

Not sure

I use it for both, but it's just a OneDrive account based on my Microsoft account, i.e. not tied to an Office 365 service. Maybe that's the difference.

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By Howard Marks
27th Feb 2014 16:05

Personal

dnicholson wrote:

I use it for both, but it's just a OneDrive account based on my Microsoft account, i.e. not tied to an Office 365 service. Maybe that's the difference.

 

That's the personal version then.

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By Howard Marks
27th Feb 2014 16:04

Recently made the switch

Very happy so far, just in the process of taking my email across.

 

I've got about 11,000 files in my personal OneDrive so i'd be interested to know the answer to the above before tring to copy everything over to the Pro version.

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By Howard Marks
27th Feb 2014 16:10

FAO AWeb computer geeks

Can anyone make sense of this????

 

It's been a loooooong day....

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By leicsred
27th Feb 2014 16:12

Hosted

We decided to go down the 365 route, and indeed have for email, with SharePoint planned but we are nearly at the point to committing to leaving and going to hosted desktop.

One of the providers is in the process of quoting us for having our own SharePoint instance on a virtual server, this means we can back it up periodically to our computers (something I never got a complete answer to on 365) and means we don't have to worry about the data leaving the country and potentially less security risks.

More expensive than 365, but when we factor in IT support, backups and 365 I am hopefully it will be broadly similar to the total cost with less hassle. It also includes email, archiving and the office suite

 

Might be worth a look at?

 

 

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By M GD
27th Feb 2014 16:30

Mixed comments. If you don't mind leicsred, please let me have the provider to give you a quote for you own SharePoint. I need to find out more info on this issue. Regarding 365 it does not seem very popular. Thank you all for your comments.

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By M GD
27th Feb 2014 16:34

25 KB storage per user. How many files can it hold?

The Office 365 Enterprise version I looked at offers 25KB storage per user. How many files can it hold? Anybody knows?

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By David Winch
27th Feb 2014 16:46

25KB

I think you would struggle to fit a tweet into 25KB !

Perhaps you mean 25GB ?

David

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By M GD
27th Feb 2014 17:40

Yes I did mean GB sorry

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By leicsred
27th Feb 2014 16:49

Sharepoint

We are looking at Key Computer Applications Ltd - although I'm sure there are other providers. They seem helpful.

We are also looking at Hosted Desktop UK who were also very good and helpful and might meet your requirements.

 

 

 

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By M GD
27th Feb 2014 17:43

Thanks a lot. Most helpful

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By dnicholson
28th Feb 2014 01:54
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By M GD
28th Feb 2014 12:13

Thank you

Thanks for this

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By MissAccounting
28th Feb 2014 12:44

I use Office 365 just for the email and calendar side of things in Exchange which means we can share calendars and mailboxes etc without needing a server (and the associated costs).  I believe this can also be done with Google Docs so that might be worth a look at too but I went with 365 as Ive used an exchange server before and it worked really well.  From memory its only about £3 a month per mailbox if you go direct with Microsft so very cost effective and easy to set up.

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By M GD
28th Feb 2014 13:08

Thank you

This is all very interesting. I learned so much in the last 2 days. Thank you all for your contributions.

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