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What is Microsoft 365?
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most…
A cloud-based productivity suite with comprehensive applications, collaboration features.
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Business Basic
$5.00
Individual
$5.84
Business - Apps
$8.25
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Microsoft 365?
The vendor says key benefits include:
- Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located.
- Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations.
- Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates.
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Microsoft 365 Competitors
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Office Perpetual
Microsoft 365 Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-21 of 21)- Management of mailboxes is done very well in Exchange Online in Microsoft 365.
- Security and compliance feature has many application which help to keep your organization secure and compliant.
- Teams and SharePoint is wonderful tool for collaboration.
- Microsoft 365 really needs to work on protection part. In complex environment it is not reliable as compared to its competitors like Proofpoint. There are many instances where it fails to perform effectively.
- In SharePoint Online the versioning feature of the document needs to be improved by Microsoft. Sometimes when we have to roll back to the previous version it does not work as expected.
- In Teams messaging and app permission policies can be improved. There are some settings where we have to add a lot of things manually.
The only thing I am a little not confident about this product is its reliability on protection. It is not as efficient as anybody would want. Even if you apply stringent of restrictions it can still be broken and Spam or other malicious activity can enter.
M365 Product Review
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- Deployment
- Licensing
- Cost
- Administration
- Teams stability issues
- Handling third-party email security vendors (ex. Trustifi, etc.)
- Work with more vendors for third-party integrations
A new and promising future with Microsoft 365!
- Email Managment with Exchange technology
- Centralize very useful business apps
- Microsoft Teams
- OneDrive share technology
- Too many management consoles (old, news..)
- Too many ways for manage resources (messy)
- Microsoft Teams behavior (Temporaly files managment)
- Microsoft Teams performance software
Microsoft 365, your all around collaboration tool
- Syncing via the cloud.
- Collaborative editing and creating of documents.
- Clear communications via Teams.
- Too many places to edit (in Teams, in the web app version of the application, in the desktop app).
- Sometimes if editing via the desktop version, sync doesn't always happen smoothly.
- When editing via web app or Teams version, there are limited features in the ribbon.
This is the gold standard for a reason, and it's affordable; why would you choose anything else?
- Word processing, spreadsheets and presentation development
- Integration with email / Outlook and simple mail merge functions
- OneDrive integration and sharing of files
- OneDrive is actually a double-edged sword: it's good, but we encounter access issues more often than we'd like.
- It also includes access to the online versions of Word, Excel, etc.. I wish the functionality of the online versions was exactly the same as the desktop version.
- Formatting sometimes gets wonky when moving a file from online to offline or vice versa.
One package software for whole organizational documentation, reporting and analysis needs
- Makes the data more visual by creating charts, diagrams.
- It is used to retrieve data from 3rd party tools and helps the users to make analysis on the data.
- You can write reports based on the data.
- You can document the processes and process flows.
- You can create custom templates for your internal and external communications.
- It enables the users to retrieve data from external sources
- It enables the users to analyze and visualize the data
- It enables the users to communicate with each other and work together in one task.
- It enables the users to create reports
- It enables the custom templates for reports, visualizations, presentations
- It optimizes the license fees by providing a better user management
- Instead of using the Microsoft translation, it can enable interface to third party tool, cloud servers for providing translations.
- Encryption and password protection setups could be easier to use.
- License fees could better
- More predefined templates are needed.
- When you want to manage the documentation in your organization.
- When you look for a reporting and analysis tool with a lot of free training
- When you look for one solution for all the organizational reporting, data analysis, communication and presentation needs.
- When you are looking for a free or open-source software to use
- When you are using mixed operating systems like Mac and Windows at the same time in your organization.
- Integration with other Microsoft systems
- Great feature set
- Pricing
- Complicated licensing
- Changes too often
Microsoft 365 does it all!
- Emails are stored in the cloud and can be synchronized on a desktop client
- Documents can be worked on in the cloud or downloaded onto the desktop for editing
- Teams can be created to allow for on-line meetings & document collaboration
- Renaming teams can be tricky. There are several layers that need to be addressed for a rename to be 100% completed.
- There isn't a way to tell how much of the storage space is occupied by certain types of files like photos vs Office documents
- Files placed on OneDrive must be completely synchronized before a link of the file can be shared with others
Best productivity suite on the market
- It is compatible with multiple computer platforms and/or operating systems. This is essential especially in organizations where everyone is not on the same platform.
- File sharing/collaboration features of the software are stellar. This is another essential need of productivity software like Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365).
- Another big strength is that most organizations/businesses use Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), and it seems more organizations are buying into this. This is good, especially as organizations work with each other and have the need to collaborate.
- Some features of Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) can take a little time to learn or can be complicated for some users. This might require that users take formal training in how to use these features.
- Since Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is primarily cloud based, this can create some confusion for users, from a software use standpoint--especially for users that are not fully accustomed to using cloud-based software.
- The cost of licensing for some organizations may be too high, especially given that Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is subscription based.
It is less appropriate for organizations/businesses where costs are a major concern, since this will require ongoing licensing costs, since it is subscription-based software.
The feature set is well worth the price
- Word for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) gives a consistent user experience with all of the features you've come to expect from document software.
- The online Microsoft account gives me a quick and easy way to manage and renew my Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) account. The current and available number of shares is clearly displayed and incredibly easy to manage. I feel that this feature is one of the best things about Microsoft 365 when trying to deploy to multiple computers without breaking the bank.
- I love the fact that Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) allows me to automatically save to the cloud. Between Google Drive and Dropbox, I used to feel like I wasted hours each week transferring documents for others in my company to view (we are located across four different locations). With Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) and OneDrive, my files are automatically saved to the cloud and I don't have to worry about them.
- I run Microsoft Windows 10 on my laptop and Android on my phone. Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) and my Microsoft account make logging into my computer and accounts quick and secure. With the Microsoft Authenticator app for Android, I am able to verify my login attempts using my fingerprint and two-factor authentication. An added bonus is the ability to add other third-party apps to the MS Authenticator app so that all of my login verification happens in one spot.
- One thing that has changed from MS Office of the past is that the shortcuts for the different programs are not grouped together in the start menu. Not a huge deal, but I preferred all of them under one MS Office folder.
- Word still has the formatting issues where pages blow up in strange ways when trying to add and place photos with text. Nothing new here, but it still hasn't gotten much better.
The Swiss Army Knife of Office Productivity Suites
- Booking might be my favorite to save time with phone tag, reminders, meeting setup.
- Stream is really cool in that it transcribes the audio in video recordings for text search.
- Also like all the granular control of sharing in order to protect privacy and security.
- Secure email sending is very cumbersome to persons outside the organization.
- So many controls/options that setup can be confusing.
- There can be software glitches but usually due to 3rd party add-ons.
Affordable world-class solution of office productivity and data security for Windows users
We also started to use Teams, Streams, and Microsoft eDiscovery.
Everyone uses Microsoft 365 [(formerly Office 365)] in my company.
- Intune that manages the endpoint data security cheaply
- Build-in eDiscovery that manages user data's legal hold and search
- Many tools such as Forms, Flow, and Power Platform for automation
- Enable Teams to make phone calls without any 3rd party vendor support
- Provide application data backup
Of course, this is still a Microsoft 365 [(formerly Office 365)]. Apple and Linux users will have challenges utilizing all the features in Microsoft 365.
Long-term Microsoft user- both small biz and corporate
- Exchange email service works well.
- Good to have access to traditional office applications.
- Back up in the cloud.
- Teaming applications are available, but not to sure how to use.
- Not sure when an application like LinkedIn is a personal, team or company solution.
- Sometimes defaults to cloud, when you would prefer to stay on your device.
New applications are rolled out sometimes with clear guidance as to how to use them. While the newer applications or enhancement to solutions like SKYPE or Teams are available, you are never quite sure how much access users outside of your well defined group will have. So, it's sometimes a default to use a third party solution like Zoom, even though you may have concerns.
Office 365 helps managed service provider standardize clients and run our own business
- Business-class email.
- Standardizes office licensing for all users.
- Teams collaboration.
- Sharepoint document management and sharing are great.
- Great email provider.
- Business-class collaboration.
- Standardizing office licensing.
- Document Sharing.
- Too many options for most people.
- Spam filtering requires a lot of tweaking -- we went to a 3rd-party tool.
- It does not have email backup -- we're using a 3rd-party tool.
Microsoft Office 365 Review
- Office does a pretty good job of organizing your files from various applications. I can access these from my hard drive, even though everything can be backed up to the cloud as well.
- Office gives me lots of options for preparing documents or files. I can type up a word doc, or create a financial spreadsheet for a project, or create a quick presentation.
- OneNote is a great notetaking tool. With a little finagling, you can also figure out how to exchange these notes and share them with other parties.
- One noticeable disadvantage with Office is the subscription fee. A huge reason I consistently use software other than Office 365, is because I can do many of the same things for free.
The trial is free!
- Data Management - replace spreadsheets with lists gives users a data-forward view. Metadata on documents too.
- Email - Exchange/Outlook is simply the best email product available.
- Data can be shared with external users, and setting permissions is fairly intuitive.
- Metadata and Search are relatively easy to configure and great for users.
- Communication - Having our (particularly) multi-person conversations in Teams Chat is better than by email.
- Single source of truth - documents/data are stored in SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive rather than in emails. Everyone always has the latest file, and no one has to search their email for it.
- Teams desktop client needs multiple windows. I would like to be able to open a document in Teams without leaving my chat session and then having to return to it.
- Remove the 5,000 items per view limit.
- SP Designer workflows should allow lookups to lists in a different site. Fetching data from other site collections would be really nice, but even another site within the same site collection would be a big improvement.
- SP Designer should allow us to edit site pages easily as we had with SP 2007.
- The flow needs to be tightened up. Simple flow to copy attachments from email to OneDrive or SharePoint requires a 4K screen to see the entire workflow, and there is a TON of unused space between steps. This is crazy, and it is unacceptable to every developer I know.
- Power Apps is barely usable. There is nothing intuitive about it, plus it requires Flows to anything complicated. And the Microsoft-offered seminars (usually delivered by MS Gold Partners) are also terrible. There is too much material to cover in 6.5 hours, they don't print the labs, and I don't have enough screen real estate on my laptop to use PowerApps and Flow, let alone see the lab instructions too.
- We shouldn't have to purchase 3rd party products like Nintex to overcome these barriers.
- Column-level security would be nice.
- Microsoft Office 365 includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, allowing you to create documents in a number of different formats, and even include data from one program in another - such as graphs from Excel in PowerPoint presentations.
- Microsoft Office 365 also makes sharing of documents much easier, with its support for cloud-based sharing of documents. You can upload your document to the cloud, and simply share a link with other users where they can view and edit documents. This is a vast improvement on the old method of having to send actual documents, and manually keep track of changes and versions.
- As well as the sharing features, Microsoft Office 365 includes excellent features for multiple users to collaborate on a single document, such as tracking updates and comments by users and versioning.
- Microsoft Office 365 supports output to PDF as well as printing, allowing digital as well as hard-copies of presentations or handouts to be shared with meeting attendees.
- Although the new "ribbon" user interface does simplify things slightly, Microsoft Office 365 does suffer to a certain degree from being "bloat-ware". The very wide range of features available means that it almost always supports what you need to do, but finding the exact feature for more common, everyday tasks can sometimes be a chore as you have to search through a long list of less commonly used features.
- Startup time for the application can be a bit long, even on high-end computers.
For smaller organizations or individuals, it may be a little bit of overkill - you'll probably find yourself not using all the features and getting the full benefit of the price you are paying.
- Synchronization of cloud and on-device storage makes working offline a breeze
- Office products Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook work seamlessly with Microsoft apps such as One Drive
- Upgrades and updates are automatic and can be scheduled or accepted. Big time saver versus one-time purchase such as Office 2016
- I use process flowcharts frequently as a consultant. I have not found a useful Microsoft app to provide this capability that helps produce a professional result. Smart Art is quite limited.
- Screen capture is limited with tools such as "Snip". I'm forced to use third-party tools such as Snagit. I use image capture every day to create training materials and reports.
- Creating documents with an Index and reference paragraphs I find difficult to use.
Office 365 Review
- Licensing is easy; you pay by the month for active users.
- Costs are easy to anticipate and are an operational rather than a capital expense.
- Office in the cloud offers continual upgrades.
- Each Office 365 user can access Office 2013 on up to five devices, including smartphones.
- Ability to easily bundle/integrate other third party services with Office 365.
- OneDrive for business is tightly integrated with Office 365 and provides generous storage limits, but the sync speed and general use of the product feels slow when comparing to other 3rd party storage suppliers.
- It would be useful to have the ability to copy and move files between OneDrive and SharePoint in web experiences.
- Searching for 'Office 365' on a Google search returns millions of results - this can make it difficult to find the center source of information from Microsoft. It would be great if Microsoft had a centralized location where you can access information relating to Office 365.
Office 365 gives users the ability to work from anywhere as long as they have an internet connection. Because it’s cloud-based, you can access your email, files and Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) from any location and any device.
Office 365 - Skype for Business instant messaging is an efficient way to connect with one or more contacts in real time and on a moment’s notice. You are able to integrate Microsoft's PSTN calling plans with Skype for Business to give you a fully functional phone system for business. We use it to communicate in our office so I can vouch for its effectiveness.
Document collaboration is a critical element to working effectively as a team. Office 365 co-authoring allows multiple people to make edits to a document at the same time. This avoids ‘Person A’ making changes to a document and then emailing it to ‘Person B’ for their input.
- Communication - Outlook is an excellent email platform, and Outlook on the Web is almost as full-featured as the desktop client version
- File Storage - OneDrive is the best cloud storage service I have used and makes everything feel seemless and integrated between computers. When logging in to a workstation with Active Directory, all my files appear in the "Recent Documents" list even if I've never logged on to that particular workstation in the past
- Cloud-based Software - the online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are very full-featured, though not as fully featured as the desktop versions, basic edits are simple to do quickly and everything is saved instantly to OneDrive.
- Evergreen Environment - Office 365 is constantly updating and changing, providing new services, apps, and improvements
- The constant changes and updates are mostly excellent, but there are occasional interface changes that are a bit jarring when you first bump in to them without warning. For users who are used to all updates coming through the IT department, it can be disconcerting when the IT department is as new to a product as they are - they expect us to know all the ins-and-outs and be able to fix/edit/resolve/change every little part of a product we are mostly hands-off with.
- Not necessarily a con, but syncing via OneDrive is a difficult concept to explain and it's difficult for users to comprehend. It has gotten MUCH better with the new Sync client, and I look forward to the day there is no difference between "OneDrive" and "OneDrive for Business" and the unified sync client is the default sync client. The new sync client offers selective sync, so you can choose what to cache locally to your hard drive. The old OneDrive for Business sync client caches all files to the local hard drive. What's the point of "cloud" storage if it's all going to copy locally to your hard drive anyway? It's getting better, but it had given many headaches and confusion when trying to explain how cloud storage works to a community that doesn't comprehend that storing files on the cloud is more secure than storing files locally.
- Microsoft's naming schemas are not very end-user friendly. Outlook (enterprise) vs Outlook.com (personal) confuses users. Microsoft (personal) Account vs Office 365 (work or school) Account. OneDrive (personal) vs. OneDrive for Business (enterprise). Skype vs Skype for Business - it's just confusing. And that doesn't even count the apps with names like "Sharepoint" that shows up everywhere and confuses users, or super-generic names like "Groups" and "Teams" that are difficult to talk about and share names with some basic functionality. An Office 365 Group is different than an Outlook Contact Group, but good luck explaining that to the person who is clicking on the wrong button.
- There have been times a product rolls out that isn't yet ready for prime-time, and we end up spinning on it for weeks until Microsoft makes improvements. It's hard to trust every new app when there are always a couple little things that don't work. Also, there are some services we tried adopting but they fell by the wayside and Microsoft doesn't seem to be developing them any more (Yammer for example), so it can be difficult as an organization to decide on a product to use when something might be coming from Microsoft that would fill the need.
Office 365 an integral part of our start up company's solutions.
- The admin panel is very easy to navigate. Can see/edit people, subscription status, set up accounts etc. with ease. I do this for all the field employees and work as the defacto IT guy, and it makes my life very easy to set up and new users, and lock out people being dismissed quickly and easily. (sad that has to happen at times!)
- The updated program status and simplicity works well for our field operations. These guys arent 'techie' types, they are construction workers. They're all grasping how to use the system very well.
- It's stable, it's rare we have any issues that aren't..'um restart your device' as a response. Dependable and works as required.
- An all in one might be nice for field use. But setting up the individual cloud settings isn't too bad.
- It can be difficult to switch or pay subscription fees when they expire, it's not intuitive where to find it.
- Other than email, knowing and practical use of working the Office apps could be improved, but once you figure it out, it's not too bad.