If a client is used to an SBS solution then they will expect something other 
than public forum based support. We put clients on E-plans even for a single 
mailbox for just that reason. Also you cannot migrate from a P to an E, so if 
they think they might grow then they need an E plan.

E3 includes Microsoft Office Pro Plus - so if you already have Office 2010 then 
you do not need it. If you have Office 2003 then you do as you need the latest 
version for the full functionality. You can get away with 2007 for lots of 
features, but when 15 comes out then they will need to upgrade.

Mike

From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 27 June 2012 15:51
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Which Office 365 version - was Office 365 and AD synchronization

Hi Chris, do you mind me asking what plan you're looking at?   I was thinking 
the same for a small business client, moving them from internally hosted SBS 
2008 to 365 Plan E1 ($8/month/per user).  I see the P1 or E3 plans too, but not 
sure if E3 is worth it for about 18 users.

Thanks

Don K

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From: Christopher Bodnar 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: NT System Admin Issues 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:27 AM
Subject: Office 365 and AD synchronization

Getting ready to migrate a small office environment to office 365. Domain is 
2008 R2, only 10 users. I'm reading through all the documentation and 
specifically looking at the requirement for a separate machine to host the 
Directory Synchronization tool. Anyone here do this yet with a small office? 
Just curious as to the load on the box. I'm going to create a VM for this but 
see that the minimum requirements are 4G RAM and 70G of disk space. That seems 
high to me for something like this in a very small environment. Curious to hear 
what others have seen after doing this in a similar environment.

Also just starting to read about single sign-on. So using the AD Sync tool 
doesn't give you single-sign on? It just gets your users and groups up to 
Office 365? For what purpose, if the credentials are synched? That's what I 
don't understand yet, but I'm not done reading yet, so maybe that will come. So 
if you need AD FS for single sign-on, how was the process?

Thanks,
Christopher Bodnar
Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture 
and Engineering Services

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