Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:29:46 GMT

@Mitchell: Thanks for your comment. I understand you situation, if that is the case, you will need to hold on for just little while longer. Although we are letting more and more folks into the beta as we move along, we don't currently support Office 365 beta in Australia, so you will have to wait until our full launch.

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Mitchell Hunt — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:29:29 GMT

Hi Allen,

I am in a similar situation as Eric mentioned. I am working with a Not For Profit in Australia which are looking at moving email and collaboration to the cloud for volunteers and Office 365 looks like it would be perfect and i don't really want to set up BPOS to evaluate just to migrate to Office 365 in a few months.

Mitchel Hunt

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:29:14 GMT

Chandu:

Check out our transition center for more information on transition, and Office365.com for pricing. BPOS will be transitioned to the Enterprise offer (E1) which includes all the same capabilities that BPOS did today, at the same $10 price.

www.microsoft.com/.../transition-center.aspx

office365.microsoft.com/.../Office365FactSheet_en.docx

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Chandu — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:28:30 GMT

Hi,

What is the pricing for Office365 with different options as in MS BPOS. How do we get migrated from MS BPOS to Office 365.

Chandrasekhar Nallani

cnallani@erpanalysts.com

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:28:13 GMT

@Mark: I am not sure they would exactly work together, Office 365 would be an upgrade and replacement for the situation you are describing. If you are not familiar with SharePoint, I encourage you to take a look at sharepoint.microsoft.com to learn more. Office 365 comes with SharePoint Online, which allows you to create team site, intranet sites, personal sites and even external public facing websites, all with the ability to store, share and edits documents, both with Office Pro Plus and Office Web Apps. I'd encourage you to also look at the SharePoint Online Service Description http://bit.ly/iaxtxq if you'd like more technical details about what is available in Office 365, and checkout Office365.com.

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Mark E — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:28:01 GMT

We current have users set up with Thin Clients connected to the same server which access individual desktops that have certain applications based on the user's account set up. These users can also RDP to their individualized desktops while away from the office. With Office365 does the user have the ability to store a Word or Excel document either on their local desktop (i.e. Company server) or in the cloud-based server associated with Office365? I'm trying to figure out how our current environment would work with Office365.

Thanks, Mark

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:27:33 GMT

@Eric: could you email me at Office365@microsoft.com? I'd like to chat in email.

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Eric Cartman — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:27:18 GMT

I understand but I am getting frustrated. I have a new client whom I know Office 365 would be perfect for and I do not want to keep stalling them indefinitely. I do not want to start them down the road into BPOS, which is not ideal for them anyway, only to have to convert them over soon.

I know, patience is a virtue.

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:27:04 GMT

Thanks for the patience Eric, just to clarify further, we DO have an email for all signups, just there has been a bug that is preventing them from being sent.

re: Office 365 for enterprises: Part 4 - Works With What You Know

Eric Cartman — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:26:48 GMT

Thanks for the response. I found the lack of email response poor when that is what we are led to expect when we sign up for the beta. At least that way we would know we possibly have a spot in line and our application was received. I shall attempt to remain patient.

I had wondered if the product is imaginary as my character ; )