I think all of this is proof that Microsoft and their marketing departments have done a bad job at communicating and advertising the Office 365 Suite.
*-----------------------------------------------* *Adam Juelich* Pulaski Community School District <http://www.pulaskischools.org> Client Management Specialist 920-822-6075 On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Becht, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I am confused. What does O365 ProPlus give you that Office 2013 does > not? I was always under the assumption and we actually have Office 365 and > are using Office 2013 with Lync and OneDrive on our desktops. I thought > O365 Plus version was just the ability for updates you get. So if MS rolls > out O365 2016 Version, it would either Auto-Update all your desktops or you > would have the ability to choose to update all your ProPlus machines. I > didn’t think there was any features/benefits between the two. I might be > wrong. > > > > [image: Description: Description: photo] > > > *John Becht * > > *Network Administrator Delaware County IT Department *201 W. Front Street > | Media, Pennsylvania 19063 > Phone: (610) 891-4675 | Email: [email protected] > Website: http://www.co.delaware.pa.us > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Beardsley, James > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:11 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Deploy Skype For Business > > > > We opened a ticket with MS and they told us there was no way to “convert” > our current O2013 ProPlus install to O365 ProPlus… our only option was to > uninstall/install. My vote was to continue using O2013 but management felt > like we might be missing out new features by not having O365. Feel free to > give me information ammo to help me to change their mind J > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Becht, John > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:00 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Deploy Skype For Business > > > > Why do you have to uninstall and install Office365? You can use Office > 2013 with Office 365, only if you want the ProPlus version and if that’s > the case you can just wait till Office 2016 Pro Plus and do it then. > > > > [image: Description: Description: photo] > > > *John Becht * > > *Network Administrator Delaware County IT Department *201 W. Front Street > | Media, Pennsylvania 19063 > Phone: (610) 891-4675 | Email: [email protected] > Website: http://www.co.delaware.pa.us > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Beardsley, James > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10:47 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Deploy Skype For Business > > > > Just curious, what other gripes do you have with moving your licensing to > 365? > > > > We’re getting ready to transition from Office 2013 to Office 365. > Unfortunately, we just finished our Office 2013 rollout back in June too – > so now we have to uninstall 2013 and install O365… should be a fun > process... > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Marcum, John > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 9:43 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Deploy Skype For Business > > > > BTW….It’s also unsupported to run mixed versions of Office on the same PC. > So you won’t be able to use Visio 2013 with Office 2016. I am SOOOOO > regretting moving our licensing from traditional Office to Office 365!!! > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Steve Burkett > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 4:40 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Deploy Skype For Business > > > > It’ll be sharing some common files with the Office 2013 already on the > disk I guess, which is not supported: > > > > Side-by-side installations of MSI and Click-to-Run versions of Office 2013 > are not supported > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2753630 > > > > So from the looks of it, you’d need to use the MSI installer for Skype for > Business for these guys, or swap their Office 2013 to using Office 365 > ProPlus (click-to-run). You can’t mix. Same problem with people already > running Project 2013 and Visio 2013 on their machines. > > > > Wondering if the new (Office 2016) version of Office 365 ProPlus will > allow this though, since they might not share those common files. > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Marcum, John > *Sent:* 28 July 2015 20:14 > *To:* SMS List ([email protected]) <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [mssms] Deploy Skype For Business > > > > Is anyone else using the click to run installer to deploy Skype for > Business to machines that have Office 2013 installed already using the > legacy (not click to run) installer? 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