Office 365: Analyst Explains Limitations and Nuances
One dilemma for organizations thinking of moving to Office 365 is determining what limitations there will be with the on-demand service offerings vs. using premises-installed Microsoft applications. Organizations also face uncertainties over migration, compliance, infrastructure and security, as well as licensing (described here , based on an earlier Directions on Microsoft talk).
Wes Miller , research vice president for server applications at Directions on Microsoft, an independent consultancy, fielded some questions along those lines in a Thursday Webinar presentation. He mostly deferred covering the licensing angle in this talk, however.
Office 365 consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. The inclusion of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 with single sign-on is a new addition with Office 365. Some of the Office 365 packages will include Office Professional Plus, a productivity suite that gets installed on the customer's premises. However, Office Professional Plus is still offered on a monthly subscription basis, so its use expires when the subscription ends. Office 2010 is available with some offerings or organizations can "bring their own" Office 2010, Miller said. Also supported for use with Office 365 are Office for Mac 2011, Office for Mac 2008 and Office 2007.
Some packages will come with Office Web Apps, which offer similar capabilities to premises-installed Office software, although with limitations. For instance, Miller noted that the Excel Office Web App can't run macros. In addition, Office Web App files can only be opened when stored on a SharePoint site. They don't open from a local drive.
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Microsoft has four licensing categories for enterprises (E1 through E4), with E4 being the most inclusive offering. They include Exchange Online e-mail support for mailboxes of 25 GB in size, personal archiving, calendar and contacts.
The E1 offering essentially replaces Microsoft's BPOS offerings, Miller explained. The E2 offering includes BPOS offerings plus Office Web Apps. E3 is the offering most organizations may select, according to Miller. With E3, users get Office Professional Plus and the most SharePoint functionality. E4 adds features such as enterprise telephony, but it may not be available until late 2011. Miller noted that Microsoft's timeline for improving that aspect of the E4 offering could be affected by its acquisition of Skype .
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