Microsoft Office 365 Business plan questions

[geimanangel]

Our organization is under 200 people. I am just starting to learn about all the options and it seems to change over time. My understanding is that the business essentials and premium plans use exchange plan 1 which has no archiving. It seems we may need plan 2. Can you add plan 2 for the $4 difference?
Also wondered if this can be done to a mixture of essential and premium users. So an essential user would be $9 with exch2, and a premium user would be 16.50 with exch 2. This idea would be limiting the number of premium users.
Another thought is whether it may be better/worse to use an archiving service outside of 365. We currently use a barracuda with our on-premise exchange.
thx

 

[Jim Wynne]

You say you're just starting to explore all of the options, but you don't tell us what options and what service or software you're referring to. More information please?

 

[yodon]

Sounds like it's a consideration of options under Office 365.

As far as I know, you can mix and match licenses as you desire. You may want to open a discussion with Microsoft, though, to talk through it. They've actually been pretty good and helping me through a few things. I can't answer anything about archiving.

 

[geimanangel]

You say you're just starting to explore all of the options, but you don't tell us what options and what service or software you're referring to. More information, please?

I am just looking or suggesting what I need to start

 

[geimanangel]

Sounds like it's a consideration of options under Office 365.

As far as I know, you can mix and match licenses as you desire. You may want to open a discussion with Microsoft, though, to talk through it. They've actually been pretty good and helping me through a few things. I can't answer anything about archiving.

yes, you said that

 

[geimanangel]

Sounds like it's a consideration of options under Office 365.

As far as I know, you can mix and match licenses as you desire. You may want to open a discussion with Microsoft, though, to talk through it. They've actually been pretty good and helping me through a few things. I can't answer anything about archiving.

no response

 

[Jim Wynne]

no response

It seems that if your questions are about Microsoft products, you should contact them directly.

 

[yodon]

no response

Sorry, just not exactly sure how to answer. @Jim Wynne provided probably the best advice. They (MS) area actually pretty helpful when it comes to explaining their products. We have a mix of Plan 1 (email only, $4/use/month) and E3 (Office Suite + email $20/user/month) and a smattering of other things (Visio, MS Project).

I don't really know anything about archiving.

 

[RoxaneB]

@Jim Wynne and @yodon : My interpretation of @geimanangel's "no response" meant that no response had come back from Microsoft (i.e., there has been an effort to reach out to MS and they have not replied). I don't think it was focused on your responses.

 

[Jim Wynne]

With just a two-part reply to go on, there's no telling. I was just trying to draw a response.