Get a Report Of All Licensed Users In Office 365
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Office 365 is a subscription-based service offer by Microsoft for home and business users. Buying an Office 365 subscription allows you to use Microsoft productivity applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint Etc. and depending on the subscription package you choose you can also get enterprise solutions like Microsoft Exchange for email, Teams for collaboration, and SharePoint for document management. One key detail about the Office 365 applications is that they never get outdated as new features and enhancements are applied to the software through incremental updates.
The initial public release of Office 365 was June 28th, 2011, and it was more of a change of approach on how to distribute their software than a new product from Microsoft as they already had been offering similar products like Microsoft Online Services before that. This initial release of Office 365 was primarily targeted to enterprise businesses and included Exchange Server for email, SharePoint for document management, Lync for communication, and the Office Web Apps.
In 2013 Microsoft expanded their offering to home users and also made it more accessible to businesses of all sizes. In this release, they refreshed their package to include solutions like OneDrive, Yammer and other data mining tools like Power BI.
Most of the applications bundled in Office 365 are web-based tools accessible from anywhere on the Internet from a web browser, and most of them can be installed as a standalone application in your computer to give you a richer experience. You can install the applications in 5 devices per subscription.
The entire Office 365 ecosystem is managed from a single web-based administration panel where you have complete autonomy on how to provision licenses and managed your subscription user accounts. If you have an enterprise network where you manage your network resources with Active Directory you have the option to run both systems in a hybrid mode so both systems share data between each other.
Even though the Office 365 package is made of many standalone applications that have been around since even before the term cloud was invented, Office 365 is a well cohesive solution where all the applications are well integrated with one another.
This are the main applications offered by Office 365 and they are available based on the subscription plan you get.
Enterprise Plans
Package | ProPlus | E1 | E3 | E5 |
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Price | $12/mo | $8/mo | $20/mo | $36/mo |
Core Apps Included | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access | None | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access |
Services Included | OneDrive | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams Yammer Stream | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams Yammer Stream | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams Yammer Stream Power BI Pro |
Small Business Plans
Package | Business | Business Premium | Business Essentials |
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Price | $8.25/mo | $12.50/mo | $5/mo |
Core Apps Included | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Access | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Access | Online version of Office Only |
Services Included | OneDrive | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams |
Home Plans
Package | Home | Personal | Home & Student |
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Price | $99.99/yrs | $69.99/yrs | One-time fee: $149.99 |
Core Apps Included | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access | Word Excel PowerPoint |
Services Included | OneDrive Skype | OneDrive Skype | None |
Plans For Large Non-Profits
Package | E1 | E3 | E5 |
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Price | Free | $4.50/mo | $15/mo |
Core Apps Included | None | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access | Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher Access |
Services Included | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams Yammer Stream | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams Yammer Stream | Exchange OneDrive SharePoint Teams Yammer Stream Power BI Pro |
Below you will find many tutorials on how to use and configure your Office 365 applications.
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