You are welcome. ☺ As far as I know, DirSync works regardless of the plan you’re on. That being said, I’ve personally only worked with Dirsync with Enterprise E1 and E3. (and by the way, its now called Azure Active Directory Sync)…..DirSync is so 2014…. AAD Sync is really better, IMO….much improved.
When moving to O365, keep in mind that you’re essentially paying Microsoft to keep you on the latest and greatest of Exchange. So, in actuality, people running on O365 are going to be running on the latest and greatest equivalent of Exchange on-prem version before the on-premises version is even RTM. My understanding is that O365 Exchange Online has been Exchange 2016 under the covers for several months now. So….. a move to O365 means you are essentially committing yourself to stay on the latest (or at least the next to latest) version of Outlook if you don’t want to have compatibility issues. Personally, I would not run on a version of Outlook more than one rev back for very long if I could avoid it. Right now I m running OL2013, but already have an image with OL2016 on it that I plan to move to by year end. (I’m the Exchange/O365 guy for the moment, so I’m trying to stay on top of it for now). The nice thing is that O365 Outlook on the Web is so feature rich that you almost don’t even need Outlook. Jonathan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Exchange] O365 and standalone Outlook That's what I was afraid of. Thanks. Any thoughts about dirsync at that level of O365 if they decide to move forward with the $5/mo product? On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jonathan Raper <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If you’re entertaining O365, you need to ditch Outlook 2007 and get on a newer version. I strongly advise going with nothing less than 2013….and consider moving to 2016 once it is proven. I’ve seen some quirkiness with 2010 and O365. http://windowsitpro.com/blog/why-exchange-2016-ignores-outlook-2007 from that article “Exchange 2016 supports the same set of Outlook clients as Exchange Online does“ Jonathan From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:04 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] O365 and standalone Outlook I have a garage client that is thinking about moving to O365's $5/mo plan for e-mail hosting. My Google-fu is failing me at the moment, and I can't seem to find the minimum version of Outlook required to connect via RPC over HTTPS/Outlook Anywhere/whatever-they're-calling-it-now. Does anyone know for sure if Outlook 2007 and newer will work? Thank you. This will be my first foray into O365 land and I'm sure this won't be the last question. Cheers, RS PS Dirsync works at this level, right? Even the password hash option that requires people to sign in to Outlook manually?
