Office 365 Reviews

I use Office 365 for communication, specifically for sending emails. I also use SharePoint for official documents, internal communication, and a combination of private and public SharePoint for Teams use. Additionally, I use OneDrive.

I primarily use Office 365 for email and SharePoint. The email capabilities are very handy to use, with no hidden options, allowing me to use them efficiently at any moment. Since transitioning from a simple, normal Outlook to Office 365, there has been an increase in productivity due to the larger amount of space available to handle emails without needing to delete older ones.

From my side, I don't see any improvement needed in Office 365. However, there should be more integration of Copilot.

I have been using Office 365 for more than three years continuously.

Before, we were using just a simple, normal Outlook. The switch to Office 365 has increased our productivity, primarily due to the larger amount of space available for emails.

Everything is going well. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Office 365 a ten. I would rate the overall product a ten.

I work with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word primarily. My work involves collaboration with multiple people, especially when using these tools.

The most valuable features of Office 365 for me involve collaboration. My work requires collaboration with multiple people on Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. We use real-time collaboration as well as asynchronous work, where I can continue from where someone else left off. Additionally, automation features like formulas and linkages in Excel save me substantial time, at least forty to fifty percent in certain tasks.

One issue I face is that as the file size gets bigger, it takes more time to work through it. Improvement in backend processing to make such files run quicker would be helpful.

I have been working with Office tools for twelve to thirteen years.

I don't have any complaints about the stability of Office 365.

I haven't felt the need to contact Microsoft support, so I haven't interacted with their customer service.

Positive

The setup was straightforward for me because my company has it pre-built.

Overall, I would rate this tool at around 8.5 to nine out of ten. I rate the overall solution a nine.

Office 365 is mainly used for communication in meetings and utilizing collaborative tools within my organization.

Office 365 is a good tool for daily tasks and collaborative activities. We mainly use Microsoft SharePoint, which integrates with other tools to facilitate collaboration such as file sharing among colleagues. Additionally, we use Teams and the email solutions provided within the Office 365 environment. The tool enhances productivity if the team is collaborative, helping us speed up work.

There should be RAM optimization related to Teams and desktop applications since they are very RAM hungry. Performance optimization should be prioritized to improve efficiency. Additionally, cost optimization should be considered due to the recent price hikes.

I have been working with Office 365 from 2014 to 2023.

I haven't faced any challenges with the stability of Office 365. I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.

Office 365 is good in terms of scalability. I would rate it between eight and nine.

For customer support, I rate it nine out of ten. I have no complaints about the support.

Positive

Setting up Office 365 is very easy. I would rate it nine out of ten for ease of setup. The deployment process depends on the internet connection.

The cost of Office 365 has become a bit costlier in the last few years. We manage expenses based on user requirements, but cost optimization should be considered.

Office 365 is user-friendly, especially when working with Windows as it collaborates well with tools. I would highly recommend Office 365 to everyone. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

Other

We use Office 365 for documents, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint Excel, and Teams.

Microsoft Teams helped us to collaborate more. We use the call feature to communicate with colleagues, and the document sharing feature is a secure way of sharing through the cloud.

We use it more for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. With the addition of Teams, which is an added feature that I like. 

In terms of the most valuable feature, I use Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams, but Teams is new for me.

Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365.

In the next release, I would like for Office 365 to be more of a finished product. It should have the ability to place calls and do system messaging. Those would be good improvements.

I would also like for the license to include a video cloning feature.

I have been using Office 365 for five years. 

I never contacted Office 365 support because we have our IT support person who resolves any issue we face.

The initial setup for Office 365 was straightforward.

I deployed Office 365 in my machine. The deployment was really straightforward and took just half an hour.

Before choosing Office 365, we didn't evaluate other options, because we've been using Microsoft Office products over the last decade. Microsoft Office is the preferred choice here in my country.

We purchased the Office 365 license for 40 users. The solution is deployed in a single location. We are only 55 people in the office.

My advice to others looking into using Office 365 is to go for it because it's an all-in-one solution that they can use for collaboration and other things.

My rating for Office 365 is eight out of ten. I would give it a ten if the bandwidth issue was solved because currently it uses up a lot of bandwidth, plus if they added more features to it.

Public Cloud

We are using Office 365 mainly for emails, document storage, SharePoint, and the Power Apps to build our own in-house applications.

The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point. 

I have been using Office 365 for approximately two years.

Office 365 is stable.

We have found Office 365 to be scalable.

We have approximately 25 people using this solution in my organization. All of our departments are using it.

The organization is growing rapidly, as we onboard more users, we'll be using Office 365 a bit more. We typically recommend Office 365 to our clients. The feedback that we have received from our clients is it's a solution they're willing to stay with.

Support Office 365 is at a high level. Any time I have an issue, support is always there. Whether it's by email or call back, the response is very prompt. I usually receive my issues resolved within less than eight hours.

I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five.

The setup of Office 365 was straightforward because I'm the one who did the initial setup as my background is in web dev. Additionally, starting the configuration was pretty easy for me.

A hybrid deployment of Office 365 took approximately two days to have all their emails migrated and everyone up and running.

We did the implementation in-house.

We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions.

We have evaluated other solutions and we settled on Office 365 because of the stability and flexibility.

Office 365 itself is very organization-friendly,  if you're an organization that is looking for a solution that will sort out all your office problems, then definitely it's a solution that you'd be looking for.

I rate Office 365 an eight out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Office 365 is used for business. We open accounts for startups and existing businesses, we primarily use Office 365 as an email platform. This is essentially what we're doing with Office 365.

As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider.

They are very good at what they do. That is why Office 365 has more than 4 billion users. Based on the market, I believe that is one of the best solutions.

Based on my experience and the tasks that I handle, for my customers, I didn't notice that there is any need for improvement.

It would be a fantastic opportunity if their solution could be used in combination with VoIP software, allowing you to combine VoIP software and Office 365 on a single platform.

I have been working with Office 365 for three years.

To be honest, in the past I used G Suite and other email providers that, use an IMAP or POP3 protocol. However, my customers were always complaining about poor email deliverability. They may occasionally send spam emails, but with Office 365, I don't have to deal with such issues. As a result, they're very good at what they do. As I previously stated, I strongly recommend it.

Office 365 is scalable, but it is dependent on the situation. We don't have a problem with it from an organizational standpoint. They started with 100 employees and then added another 500 after six months, for a total of 600 employees. The setup of new users, new emails, and new applications to be assigned to the new users is straightforward.

They also provide the PowerShell command, which they provided more, development type, like, for example, you can create users, not manually, but through a script that can create users, for example, 100 users in two, three minutes, and you don't do it manually. They're fantastic.

My portfolio contains approximately 50 companies. Office 365 is our primary platform for the 50 companies. I only have one on G Suite, and the majority of them will be migrating from G Suite to 365 in the coming month.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate their performance a nine. However, you may encounter users who are just getting started and require a little more time to resolve the issue. But their assistance is quite efficient and simple.

Positive

One of my teachers from the university suggested I do the course to have an official engineer certificate in Office 365. I went to the university, and I did the course, which was a one-month course. Once I learned Office 365, I was able to provide more security and more stability not only, for the company, but as well, when I was going to the interview, I was providing tables and show them that I know and I'm an official engineer for this solution. Through the courses and learning that I received at the university for Office 365 on the technical side, I discovered that there are many things that you can do with the platform. For the first time, I like them. I told myself, "I have to stop using other email platforms and start using Office 365." This is one of the reasons I participated in the movement.

The initial setup is straightforward. You simply purchase a domain and assign it to the platform. If your domain is registered with one of the hosting platforms, such as GoDaddy, they have integration with GoDaddy, you can use it at the same time. With your GoDaddy login information, the process is going very smoothly. I didn't notice any difficulties with the setup.

In general, we buy licenses depending on the needs of the client. Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free. 

You can begin for as little as 5 Euros per month. You will receive a discount if you choose a yearly plan. Then, depending on what license you require, it is paid 10 Euro, 12, 16, or 20 Euro, depending on how much you require. However, if you choose a yearly plan, you will receive a discount.

In terms of pricing, I would rate them a three out of five. They are not expensive, but they are not cheap. When comparing the solution to G Suite, one of their main competitors, they are priced the same. If it is also other competitors, they are very inexpensive. I can tell you that charging 5 Euros per month for an email is a small amount. 

I strongly recommend this solution. they are very good at what they do.

I work as a reseller. I am unable to be a partner. It's similar to having one in each country. For example, we charge most of the sales and pay something to Microsoft. Then, in cycles. As an authorized seller, I'm here to help.

The advice I would give them is to go with the best plan, which is both expensive and not cheap. Then they can start using it a little bit to see how the platform works, and then they can go to the Microsoft site and see how scalable the email as a mail platform is.

I would rate Office 365 a five out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We're using Microsoft Defender for endpoints.

We went that route as we did have an IT service provider, however, they were very expensive. When we did a corporate merge at the beginning of 2019, we decided that we were going to go to Office 365 and do a one-stop-shop. We didn't want to have the on-prem equipment to maintain. 

In our last solution, we were limited as to what we could do for, for example, email addresses for the entire company, which were about 80 people. It was very costly to do that. Therefore, we only had our program managers and our site leads with email addresses.

When we decided to come back over to the corporate side, we wanted to keep the same flexibility and be able to have access to Microsoft for their tech solutions or their tech assistance, depending on what we needed. It gave us that flexibility and we were able to run the company on basically two IT people rather than paying $3,000 to $4,000 a month for IT services from other vendors, such as like Ntiva or something like that.

We really like SharePoint, the Office 365 for endpoints. We're still messing around with that. We've only had that for about six weeks of play. It was good as it really started to give me insight as to what vulnerabilities I had out there on my company-owned machines. That's my most valuable tool right now due to the fact that I can not only monitor the health of the machines but also run through that same endpoint protection. I have access to cyber analysis and security testing for all my employees. I can send out test malware emails or some sort of phishing attempt emails for my entire company all in one fell swoop. I can keep a monitor on who passed, who failed, who's taken the required training, et cetera. The security compliance center that comes with that and it helps us a lot.

There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right.

With our whole tenant, we had a little over a terabyte of storage just for our SharePoint. Then, each individual gets a terabyte of storage for their OneDrive. It's really nice being able to not have to worry about monitoring the storage. I mean, we do go in and we do our storage monitoring about once a quarter just to make sure that we're not approaching any limits. For example, in my account, I'm about halfway through my limit because I'm the IT guy. I've got software backups. I've got all sorts of equipment backups. It's nice to have the capability to maintain that kind of storage without having to go out and purchase it. It comes out of the box, for the company.

It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating.

This is due to the fact that, if you haven't been on in a while, sometimes it takes a good hour or two to reorient yourself -especially when you're trying to find a setting. We went through an assessment about four months ago and I had the hardest time finding certain settings in my baselines. Just being able to demonstrate something as simple as an audit log, when they move things around, can be challenging. It seems like at least once or twice a month. It gets a little confusing.

On the endpoint protection side, they've done a merge with both our security center and their compliance center. You can do multiple things from doing the same thing, however, for multiple admin sites. You get used to like one and then it takes you to another. It gets a little cumbersome or confusing as the outlays are different, the menus are a little bit different. That's one of my biggest gripes about it.

Sometimes, if we have a user that is doing some work from home, for example, and they're not on their corporate laptop and they're on their regular laptop, or vice versa, and they have like a personal Office 365 license, they sometimes conflict with each other, which then puts the person into an authentication loop, which basically means they can't access their stuff properly. We're running into that problem, actually, with one of our users right now.

For some reason, there were three different Office products that were loaded on there. A regular Office 365, Office 365 Business, and then Office 365 Enterprise. How all three of them got on there, we're not quite sure. He can open up some of his documents normally that are stored on his machine from the OneDrive, yet, when they try to open up documents that are in SharePoint, every now and then, depending on the updates that are pushed out by Microsoft, they can't open up the documents. At that point, you kind of like have to uninstall or do an online repair of the Microsoft Office itself, and then re-install it.

Due to this issue, you're losing productivity time. This guy just happens to be our corporate recruiter. We're losing time with him being able to look at resumes and stuff like that, or look at qualifications or statements of work and stuff like that.

We've been working for about two hours and yeah, I mean, he can download the document and open it up, but he can't actually open it up while it's in SharePoint. When you don't have that, when you lose that capability, especially like when they're working on proposals and when time is of the essence, it can become a big issue. 

Sometimes when the software pushes security patches it breaks, Windows wide.

We started off with the Office 365 GCC High cloud government cloud solution. We had certain types of data that warranted certain levels of protection. Once we migrated all that data over to the government, we went through a name change, and then came out of that solution and into the corporate Office 365 about this time last year. Overall, we've been working in Office 365 for about three years now, at different levels.

The solution is quite stable. I'd rate it at 95%.

The scalability is amazing. It's very easy to expand if you need it to.

The technical support is very good. They are helpful and responsive. 

We did the setup in a phased approach, where we went out and did our research and then once the tenant was assigned to us, we went through, and built everything. As we got close to releasing, we send out a notification to all of our users saying, "Okay, effective this date, this is what the new processes are going to be." We sent them out in the documentation. However, first, we had to do the research and get everybody together.

We had done a corporate merger. We were merging two companies together. My company had one email system, while the other company had another email system. That's why we had to go through all of the procedures for migrating the other company over. We had to go through all the procedures on how to migrate their data from the Ntiva server, which had all the personal drives. We had to have all that stuff in place for the users.

We did our migration from GCC High over to the commercial side and then, once we were all set up and ready to go, we initiated cutoff dates when we needed to stop using the previous portal. 

We had spent probably about two to two and a half months setting up the backend to get Intune in place and to get all of the data properly cataloged. 

We're still in the process of getting things set up as there are new technologies that come out or changes to the admin sites. We're implementing those changes and we're going through making whatever adjustments we need to make. Now that we've got the endpoint protection and more monitoring, we're seeing how that's going.

One of the drawbacks that we found out was that when we were putting out new policies to the machines, each machine operator actually reacted a little bit differently due to the fact that we did have a couple of Windows machines and a couple of Macs that we did our testing on. Once we felt that we were good, we pushed everybody out, pushed all the settings out to the security groups that we'd set up. Things didn't go as smoothly as we'd anticipated as some machines went flawlessly and some machines were rebooting constantly as they were processing stuff. It was interrupting people during their workday. It works great in dev tests, however, as soon as you put it into production, the reactions are totally different.

Overall, it was definitely a successful migration with just a couple of challenges. 

One of the big benefits of it was that it really made us understand the system a lot better. We had some older machines. It made me realize, okay, this machine is way outdated. We need to update this machine.

We just had two people that handled the deployment process. 

We used a reseller that helped us with the implementation and setting up the SLAs. Law They took over our entire license structure. Now, we pay them instead of Microsoft.

The ROI is basically to have the peace of mind and the service level agreements in place on the security side, on the infrastructure side, from Microsoft and to know that they're doing their due diligence to make sure that all of the data is protected. They're very good about sending out notifications when they have issues going on, depending on what the suite is. If it's the entire Microsoft 365 suite or if it's SharePoint, if it's Exchange, if it's Intune and stuff like that, they're very good about letting us know. That way, I can evaluate it and still let my teams know when there's a problem. Then, they know to wait it out rather than barrage us with phone calls and, "Hey, I can't do this. I can't do that."

The ease of access, basically, to have almost everything in a one-stop shop, is definitely a good return on the investment as well. Not having to have the on-prem servers, not having to worry about making sure my servers are up to date or my certificates are all up to date and purchased is a great ROI. It's all kind of built-in. 

I also have the flexibility to expand services through Azure to do certain things. For example, if I wanted to set up a firewall, I can go in, quickly provision a firewall, and get it configured. That allows my company to be more secure. That saves me and the company time from having to go out and purchase equipment. It's all there right in the infrastructure stack.

We're a hybrid between Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Basic, depending on where a person stands in the company. Our headquarters staff is all Business Premium, while the rest of our staff members who work on government sites are set up for Business Basic because we're just providing them with email services. The headquarters staff members who have a laptop issued out to them have a Premium license. And we have Defender for Endpoint specifically for our corporate-owned devices.

If we want to expand certain capabilities, we do have to purchase some additional licensing. When we first started on the commercial side, we went directly to Microsoft and we had full control over all of our licensing. Then, when we got into certain things, like the endpoint protection license, we had to go through a third-party reseller for that. They, in turn, had to take over our whole licensing structure. We just did that last month, however, it's nice due to the fact that they do offer a 10% discount.

They also offer a one-stop shop, where if we, as the administrators run into some problems, we can go directly to them. They can either open a ticket with Microsoft on our behalf, or they have staff on-site that can help, so then that way I'm not at the mercy for Microsoft to give me a callback.

They also do have certain solutions where if they have to get remote into the machine, for whatever reason, we have to pay them a little bit of extra money to do that. We haven't had to do that part yet, however, it's nice to know that it's there as there are some times where it's just easier to have our employees reach out to them directly. Right now, we're still doing it on our own. That's one of the downfalls of it - that for smaller companies we have to go through a third-party vendor. 

We were looking at Amazon Web Services as a viable solution. However, Office 365 at the time was the way to go. It was cheaper. It was basically a one-stop shop, whereas Amazon Web Services was a pay-as-you-go arrangement. They also didn't have the flexibility that we were looking for. Plus, the cost for the data in and data out was quite substantial when you look at the grand scheme of things. We had to not only provide a workstation for the people to work on, but we also had to create a virtual workstation for them to work on. Therefore, we would have been basically paying twice.

That was kind of what we were running into with our other service provider, Ntiva. We were paying for the virtual machines as well as the equipment for the people to do their work on. What was nice about 365 was that we could provide them a license and, with that license they would have access to whatever our tenant offered as far as collaborative solutions such as SharePoint, OneDrive, the whole Office suite, et cetera. 

We're an Office 365 shop. We do all of our stuff through Azure.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. If they were better on the administrative side, I'd likely rate them at a perfect ten out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

I use Office 365 mostly got Excel and Word.

The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved.

Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution.

I have been using Office 365 for many years.

The stability of Office 365 is very good.

The scalability of Office 365 is good, if more than one person is using it, it works well.

We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my company.

I have not used the support from Office 365.

The initial setup of Office 365 is straightforward and very easy.

My advice to those wanting to implement Office 365 for the first time is they should take the tutorial first because they need to learn what to do with the solution.

I rate Office 365 a nine out of ten.

On-premises