The different plans for Microsoft Office 365<\/a> can be confusing. Regardless of what plan you get, the Exchange Online choices boil down to two options.\u00a0 Exchange Plan 1 offers you 50GB mailboxes per user, ActiveSync, Outlook Web Access, Calendar and all of the other features you are currently getting with an on premises Exchange implementation.\u00a0 Additionally you also get antivirus and antispam protection.\u00a0 All of this for 4 dollars a month per user.<\/p>\n Exchange Plan 2 offers the exact same features as plan 1, with the additions of unlimited archiving, legal hod capabilities, compliance support tools and advanced voice support.\u00a0 This plan is 8 dollars a user per month.<\/p>\n All of the other Office 365 plans that include Exchange are either plan 1 or plan 2.\u00a0 For example, the E3 plan (Enterprise plan 3) includes Exchange plan 2, SharePoint Plan 2, Lync Plan 2 and Office Professional Plus for 5 devices per user.\u00a0 You can take any plan and break it down to the component part and fully understand what you’re getting.<\/p>\n If you are looking to move email to the cloud<\/a> and are currently using Exchange, who better to host your Exchange than Microsoft?\u00a0 Office 365 is an even better choice if you are using, or plan\u00a0on using,\u00a0SharePoint or Lync.\u00a0 All of these technologies are available in the current plans or individually through Office 365.<\/p>\n I’ve\u00a0helped many clients make this transition so if you have any questions or if there’s any confusion around the\u00a0Office 365 plans feel free to reach out<\/a>.<\/p>\n My next blog will be on the 3 different authentication methods in Office 365.<\/p>\n By Chris Chesley, Solutions Architect Many of our clients are choosing to not manage Exchange day to day and not to upgrade it every 3-5 years. They do this by choosing to have Microsoft host their mail in Office 365. Is this right for your business? How do you tie this into your existing infrastructure…Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,1759,179,181,348],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-8893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-email-migration","category-featured","category-miscellaneous-it","category-office-365","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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