[AccessD] time to retire ?

Yep, that is pretty much how it works. You can download a trial version which free and is good for 30 days - the trial version includes 10 licenses, after 30 days you get an email asking if you want to continue the service.  If you do then you only pay for as many licenses as you want / need.  You can add more or less over time and they just adjust your monthly bill.


There was a bit of stuffing around getting the site setup and operational initially (at least for Australia).  You need to have a registered business with ABN (sort of a business ID number and an existing website)  Your requirements may differ as you are in a different part of the world.

I needed to play around with DNS settings on with our existing ISP setup page - and also do some manual configs to Lync and the outlook desktop client to make it work.  Most of this stuff I found out via Google and the online help forums.  Once you know where to look it is all fairly painless - of course I say this now with 20/20 hindsight ;)

That said, you don't need to use an outlook desktop client if you don't want, you can do it all in the browser if you want.  The exchange side of things is seriously good.  Having the ability to instantly update all the members of your team and share calendars painlessly is a huge jump for a lot of these folks.

It is ideal for small working teams of people.  One business I set this up for is 7 people and they often work remotely.  Having the ability to share calendars, use the 'presence' detection and Lync to meet up and share tools and desktops has been really useful for them.  Much better than trying to get one of them to assist the other one over the phone alone.

Cheers
Darryl.



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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 10:51 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] time to retire ?

Since you've got experience, and since I haven't investigated all the options, am I correct in assuming that an O365 license, regardless of number of people, involves the latest (Office, SharePoint, SQL) in a participatory mechanism of some sort (e.g. per seat or something)?

As proprietor of a mostly-retired company, with only me as employee, this is very appealing, and I think this could work very inexpensively for clients having say < 10 employees. Skip all the on-site licensing, pay a per-seat fee per month, lock and load. Is this precis correct?

Arthur

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Darryl Collins < darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au> wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> Set up two small businesses on Office 365 and I can speak highly of it.
>
> Allowing these small operations to have access to services such as an 
> Exchange server for outlook and shared calendars, secure and version 
> controlled documents, online databases plus communication tools like 
> Lync
> 2010 has been a game changer for them.
>
> Both businesses are really impressed and have gone from being 'not sure'
> to really starting to understand how this can save them buckets of 
> time and money (less errors, less documents, easier comms - plus 
> secure docs storage and back up).
>
> They also love that their stuff can now be accessed via any web brower 
> (IE does work better though).  And as you say, all for $7 dollars a person.
>  Best bit is if you suddenly add 3 new folks, all you do is add 3 more
> licences via the admin console and they bill you next month.   Personally I
> am sold on this.  The more I used it the more I like it.  There are 
> limits on using sharepoint lists as a complex database ofcourse but 
> for 90% of the stuff small businesses need it is just brilliant).
>
> And it is dead easy to set up as well.  Great stuff!
>
> Cheers
> Darryl.
>
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