Office 365 Reviews

• Microsoft Office
• Skype for Business
• Office 2016
• Data loss prevention

• Provided us with better capability to trace emails, and provide security over those emails.
• Provided the ability to encrypt email.
• Gave us a professional video conferencing system.
• Easily manageable.

The default reporting is not very helpful; extendable mostly through PowerShell; must have knowledge of PowerShell to fully utilize.

I have used it for a little over one year.

I have not had an issue with anything going down. On Google Apps for Business, it was frequent.

No issues with scalability; easy to work with and extend.

Honestly have not had to deal with technical support; most problems have been resolvable through the community and online research.

We previously used Google Apps for Business. Solution was incomplete, a headache to manage and extend. Email filtering was essentially useless.

Initial setup was very straightforward; was able to set up and migrate with little assistance.

We use a parallel licensing structure through Dell. Originally, there were some limitations; however, those limitations are now rare.

We looked into an onsite email server, as well as staying with Google Apps for Business.

Know PowerShell. This is where the true power of Office 365 lies.

My primary use cases are for Word: 

• I write memos
• PowerPoint 
• Pitch decks
• Excel
• Financial models.

I like all of the features. 

In terms of improvement, a better help bar would be good. I find it's generally not very helpful and I have to search online.

I have been using Office 365 for twelve years. 

It's stable.

It's easy to expand and add new things like Google Docs and new PowerPoints.

I use it all the time. 

The initial setup was straightforward. The process was short. I did it myself. 

In the next release, I would like to have a more intuitive tutorial.

I would rate Office 365 a ten out of ten. There's nothing else like it. 

Office 365, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint.

Less overhead, work anywhere/anytime. Tools for teamwork, productivity, and administration.

The ability to work with SharePoint from within the Office applications is limited. (There is still a need for third party tools like Harmon.ie).

Five years.

Negligible.

Negligible.

High level of technical support from Microsoft.

On-premises: Office 1010/2013/2016, Sharepoint Server, Skype/Lync farm. We switched because of the ease of administration and reduced overhead.

With the help of a clear project plan and adoption plan, implementation of Office 365 is mostly straightforward. SharePoint does need more attention. Mostly adoption issues.

Contact Microsoft about any pricing issues.

No.

Adoption is key! Don't push it. Especially for users who are used to working with traditional tools, it will be hard to adopt a new way of work.

I like that mail and calendar are available anywhere. It is easy to share with colleagues.

I can make changes in seconds. It is easy to share the mailbox and the calendar. It is easy set the 'out of office' status.

Microsoft Excel for Mac (version 15.30) is very slow with a large Excel document. Microsoft Excel for Windows is much faster on the same Mac with Windows (Boot Camp). I’d like to see an improvement in the speed of Excel for Mac in relation to Windows.

We have used this solution for one and a half years.

Microsoft Excel on Mac OS can be very slow.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10.

In our case, the installation was fairly easily, after good preparation and a plan of action. The migration of all old mailboxes to Microsoft Office 365 takes a long time. We completed this with no problems.

This is not the cheapest option, but the product can scale to the needs of the company.

We evaluated CommuniGate Pro Server and Kerio Connect Mail.

Have a good plan with shared mail and calendars.

You know that there a lot of features are available. SharePoint and Yammer are the most valuable.

Any user can get updates from this portal easily.

• Yammer
• RMS
• Delve

I have used it for the last three years.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any issues like that.

Customer service is very good.

Technical support is very good.

We used only Google, but we have Microsoft AD, Exchange, SharePoint, System Center, Lync/Skype for Business, so that Office 365 Enterprise is the most important for us.

Initial setup was not complex.

We implemented it with our team.

We got a lot of ROI from the business site.

You need to compromise regarding the licensing and pricing.

I would recommend using products from the same vendor (i.e., Microsoft).

It is excellent for any organization's business productivity.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration. Everything is integrated.

Teams could be better. It is not very well integrated with the rest of the solution. It's too heavy.

I would like to see better integration with Teams, and better usability with SharePoint. It's complicated.

I have been using Office 365 for a couple of weeks.

Office 365 is always current, it's a service.

Office 365 is very stable. I don't have any problems with the stability of this solution.

We don't have any problems with the scalability of Office 365.

We use Office 365 extensively, we use it all of the time.

In our company, we have several dozen users.

I have not contacted technical support.

We are a publishing company. We develop our own solution, which I use on a daily basis.

The initial setup is very easy.

Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them.

I would advise you to carefully plan your migration.

We are both customers and a partner with Office 365.

I like this solution, I have everything that I need. I would rate Office 365 an eight out of ten.

People tend to keep their mistakes hidden. With version control, you only have access to what you need. Managing assignments of tasks can make a team effort be more transparent. The solution keeps people honest.

Team members can work together and make them more accountable.

I would like to see improvements in connections to external content types and their connectors.

While consulting at a client’s office, I found it very difficult to connect SharePoint designer external content types to the IBM AS400 iSeries connector. I was also trying to connect to the JDE connector.

We have used this solution for six years.

At first there were some stability issues. However, Microsoft got much better with it over time.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I would rate technical support with an 8/10.

It was easier to set up in the earlier versions. Now it has many more bells to ring.

Cost to value is much better than on premise SharePoint.

We evaluated Amazon Web Services.

Do your homework first, plan governance, and then pull the trigger. Use a migration tool to add metadata to file share documents.

We primarily use the solution for office communication.

Everything about the solution is useful.

Outlook is great. We like that there's SharePoint connectivity. The OneDrive is amazing. 

I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools. 

It's great that there's also one single sign-on and all features are available.

I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app. I would prefer it as separate options (advanced vs basic). Currently, it is all bundled in one big product and it's confusing.

I've been using the solution for three years at this point.

The stability of the solution is good. The functionality is never affected by bugs or glitches. It doesn't freeze or crash. After using it for more than two years, we haven't had a problem.

The scalability of the solution is good. We've never had any issues with it.

Although we haven't contacted Microsoft's technical support for this solution, my past experience with them was largely positive. Generally, they are very quick to respond if we need help.

The initial setup was not complex. It was very straightforward. We were online in a matter of minutes.

Deployment has taken about two and a half years.

We didn't need the assistance of an integrator or reseller to help us set anything up. It's cloud-based so it's easy.

I'd recommend the solution to others. They should just take the product and start using it. It's fantastic having everything in one place.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.