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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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.
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.
Business or pleasure...
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.
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.
Personal
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.
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.
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?
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.
More info
Here's some information:
http://blogs.office.com/2013/08/27/skydrive-pro-increases-storage-and-ea...
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.