Thanks Chris. Sounds like with E3 you don't need a backend SBS server or other, just a domain to login?
PS - Sorry all about my last reply - my fonts exploded so that reply came through in huge text.
Don K
From: Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]>
To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Which Office 365 version - was Office 365 and AD synchronization
Sure no problem. Going to go with E3 specifically
because of this:
Please note: with E1 you can only view Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files online. With E3 you can both edit and view these files online.
This was a big selling point for the E3 plan. Also in our situation the client is non-profit, so the prices are significantly reduced.
From: Don Kuhlman <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Date: 06/27/2012 10:51 AM
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
From: Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]>
To: NT System Admin Issues <[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,
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This was a big selling point for the E3 plan. Also in our situation the client is non-profit, so the prices are significantly reduced.
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From: Don Kuhlman <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Date: 06/27/2012 10:51 AM
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
From: Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]>
To: NT System Admin Issues <[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,
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