A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Tony Tai - MSFT — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:36:44 GMT

@gpf: I encourage those evaluating Office 365 with a specific interests such as yours (http://bit.ly/I0B8Mm), to contact the Office 365 community forum (http://bit.ly/ha0RZ3).

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

gpf — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:20:21 GMT

I trialed O365 for 30 days and liked most things but one major show stopper for me was the fact that although I could add several pop3/imap accounts and download their email - it was impossible to send messages "from" those accounts, without a "sent on behalf" message pointing back to the O365 account.

How many of us have more than one email account these days and who wants emails to be sent from a different account? Not me anyway. Fix this and you might get my business.

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Tony Tai - MSFT — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:05:52 GMT

@Randall Parker: I am glad you recognize these ways IT professionals benefit from Office 365 versus Google. We are both interested in why companies as small as 10 people (http://bit.ly/guKFSB) chose Office 365, after trying Google for free as a very small business.

Imagination Yoga cites better usability and time savings over Google Docs (http://bit.ly/xCmphT). PSI Solutions tried Google Docs and cites mobile access, seamless integration, and a strong email interface (http://bit.ly/IisXwe). Over their previous Google solution, D&L cites strong value for the price and file fidelity (http://bit.ly/omcbco). Naturally Me cites an easy setup, without need for technical assistance, and better reliability than in using Google Docs. (http://bit.ly/ApHWDa).

For more, see the top 10 reasons (http://bit.ly/yfSEvH).

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Tony Tai - MSFT — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:04:41 GMT

@Nick: The partial delegation is available in the enterprise edition.

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Randall Parker — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:40:33 GMT

Although the above comparisons are valid, the most important comparison has been excluded. Most users of Microsoft Office or Google Apps ARE NOT IT Professionals. Google Apps are sufficient enough for daily tasks and come at no monetary expense to the end-user. It is extremely difficult to compete with "sufficient" as well as "free".

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Nick — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:46:30 GMT

Did you guys ever fix the DNS partial delegation issue?

e.g. is it now possible to point webmail.MYDOMAIN.COM to Office365?

When I first tried a beta, this was /not/ possible, so we renewed Google Apps. Has this been changed?

See:

community.office365.com/.../2101.aspx

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Tony Tai - MSFT — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:14:59 GMT

@Conrad: Starting at $6/user/month, people from businesses all over the world tell me they find Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite, Office 365 to be an excellent value (http://bit.ly/xDNQY5), easy to use, and full of capabilities they need and use (http://bit.ly/AqOrbm). While Google limited its free lunch (http://bit.ly/md9HIm ) Office 365 customers avoid the hidden costs of Google Apps (http://bit.ly/jbB4of), as well!

As for someone who qualified for a “free” lunch, Office 365 customer ESL Industries says: “We had tried Google Docs but found that it was a departure from the Microsoft software we’d already invested in. Sometimes the free offering is not always the best offering.”(http://bit.ly/mXUtyw). Office 365 customer, Colonial Williamsburg tells us: “We asked the accounting team to help us by recreating some of the spreadsheets they had in Microsoft Excel in Google Spreadsheets. A lot of the business intelligence modeling [features] in Excel were not available in Google Apps. And for our financial people, those were non-starters. When it came to presentations, Google didn't offer the breadth of functionality our users were used to. We quickly realized Google would not meet our needs, so asking our employees to put up with less functionality was not an option for us.” (http://bit.ly/zFdmFY)

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Conrad — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:37:26 GMT

Google apps = FREE

Office 365 = $$$$

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Tony Tai - MSFT — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:50:16 GMT

Seeing this post today from Microsoft’s Eric Ligman, I thought IT Pros and their user communities would find it to be useful. It is one of the most comprehensive lists of videos and guides that I have seen for Office 365. (http://bit.ly/AuEsE4)

re: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional

Umm — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:04:21 GMT

Tony Tai, are you a robot? MS, I'm a big fan of your product, please don't use robots to respond to the commenters. If you're not a robot, yikes.