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jIMMY — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:59 GMT

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chong — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:43 GMT

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Ac — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:28 GMT

Hi Allen,

I have this situation here.

Multiple domains are hosted in the Zimbra email for the same set of users.

Can this be migrated over to Office 365?

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David Y. — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:09 GMT

Hi Clint, would love to know the following:

If a customer uses Office 365 for MS Exchange, can they later convert back to an on-premise Exchange 2010 server. In other words, will Microsoft facilitate the migration of the mailbox stores etc. back to an on-premise solution? Are there any pre-requisites to doing so?

We know that Microsoft offers assistance in the other direction, going from on-premise to the cloud, but were not sure what was offered in the other direction.

(2)

Will the MS Exchange Online component in Office 365 integrate with a standard on-premise implementation of Microsoft CRM 3.0 (which is a version that is two generations old)? In other words, can an on-premise implementation of MS-CRM 3.0 integrate with Office 365? If the answer is "no," if it were v4 or v5 of MS-CRM, would that change your answer?

(3)

Does Microsoft offer migration support/instructions for customers interested in going from an on-premise implementation of MS-CRM 3.0 to Microsoft's hosted version of MS CRM 2011?

David

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:02:48 GMT

@Rob: it would probably be a "larger" update, but still pushed automatically to your current version. So yes!

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Rob A — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:02:22 GMT

Clint, you stated in #5 I download Office Professional Plus and run it, and it gets updated regularly via the cloud.

Is this really only true for "minor" updates? Would not the next version release (target 2014) need to be deployed as a full, new update?

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Microsoft Office 365 Blog — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:02:01 GMT

Well, it's been two weeks since the announcement of Office 365 and the response is more than we could have hoped for. Clearly, this is a solution that a lot of customers are excited about, and it's resonated across a lot of Microsoft Web properties. Here's a quick rundown of the resources around the web that will hopefully help you find the content that's most interesting to you.

We have unveiled how Microsoft partners will benefit from selling Office 365 . And we've answered a lot of questions from customers and others . Microsoft experts posted on the transition to from BPOS to Office 365 , and we answered many of their questions , too. If you're on BPOS, be sure to visit the Transition Center for more information. If you're using Office Live Small Business, check out this post about what Office 365 has to offer.

We've also heard about Office 365 from the perspective of the Office , SharePoint , Exchange , and Lync teams, as well as why Office 365 represents the continuation of Microsoft leadership in the productivity space. We even managed to get down to some of the nitty-gritty details of the Office 365 offerings as well as how Office Professional Plus works as a subscription service . Finally, if you're interested in some outside perspectives on Office 365 (and we hope you are), see what Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet, ComputerWorld , and TechCrunch have to say.

Whew! And still months away from launch...so stay tuned to this blog, our Facebook page , and our Twitter feed for all the latest news on Office 365.

Thanks!

-Allen, Office 365 Product Manager

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:01:23 GMT

@Lee, depends on what SKU you want to purchase!. With our small business offer, you can go up and down at any time, no problem. With our Enterprise offer, when you purchase Office 365, you sign up with a 1 yr contract and can choose how many licenses you want to purchase. At any point, you can add users to the exisiting plan. You can only remove licenses at the end of the term of your contract. At any point though, you can move these licenses between users without incurring any charges. Meaning, if you lose one person, but a new employee joins the company, you can just provide that user the license.

And yes, Enterprise voice is offerred with Lync Server with the highest level plans of Office 365. We are working to bring this to Lync Online, but we have no schedule in place to date.

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Lee — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:01:06 GMT

Two quick questions...

1. If we add/drop users in the middle of the year how does that affect the year we paid for? Can we add someone on and just pay the difference when we renew at the end of the year? Do we get a credit if we drop a user in the middle of the year?

2. Enterprise Voice, is it going to be offered in 365 at any point with full functionality without requiring on-site equipment/servers?

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:00:47 GMT

@Ous: SharePoint Online allows for custom application development, but apps written for OLSB will need to be re-written to work with the SharePoint architecture. As for email accounts, see my comments on the latest Product Insights Exchange blog.