[Exchange] RE: Upgrade on-prem vs Office 365

2016-02-17 Thread Michael Tavares
Cached exchange mode won't help much with #1. The email is still being downloaded from the server and using bandwidth when it happens. Generally not a big deal if the email doesn't contain file attachments. If you happen to be a company like my previous company that got 10's of thousands of

[Exchange] RE: Upgrade on-prem vs Office 365

2016-02-17 Thread Freddy Grande
I don't find it all that hard to control updates, assuming you mean for the Click to Run installs. Just need to set up some scheduled tasks, scripts and GPOs and it works by itself. It's annoying setting it up the first time as it's completely different to all other current methods and requires

RE: [Exchange] RE: Upgrade on-prem vs Office 365

2016-02-17 Thread Adam Farage
To add to the list of items of issues I have with Office 365  - Third party application support. What protocol does your internal applications require? If its just SMTP or mailbox access via POP3 / IMAP4 then you are fine. If it is MAPI access then you will most likely face