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    SOHO and SMB Cloud Storage Recommendations

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    • scottalanmillerS
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      I saw that, did not realize that the cheap version still had the online versions of those apps (or at least some of them.)

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      • DashrenderD
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        Here is what my logon screen looks like.

        0_1447787990777_o365-s.PNG

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        • scottalanmillerS
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          Cool. That is definitely a really good value, then.

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          • DashrenderD
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            yep, very hard to justify paying $3/month for E1. Even more so going to E3/E4 $20/22 a month.

            Those extras are nice, but really I'm guess more often than not just not needed - Access? Really? OK fine, take away Access and lower the price and charge $2-4 more just for access.

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            • scottalanmillerS
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              I think Access is a bit of a red herring. That's not the value to those plans for anyone. It's Yammer, Video Hosting, Legal Hold, Compliance Tools, BI, GPO, etc.

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              • scottalanmillerS
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                Do you get Skype for Business in that plan?

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  Do you get Skype for Business in that plan?

                  no. How many mins come with SfB?

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    I think Access is a bit of a red herring. That's not the value to those plans for anyone. It's Yammer, Video Hosting, Legal Hold, Compliance Tools, BI, GPO, etc.

                    Yeah, you're right. And at the size of 300, some of those things might be pretty cool.

                    What GPO things do you get?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      Do you get Skype for Business in that plan?

                      no. How many mins come with SfB?

                      Mins?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                        @Dashrender said:

                        What GPO things do you get?

                        Don't know, we aren't big enough to care 🙂

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                          Jason Banned @Dashrender
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                          @Dashrender said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          I think Access is a bit of a red herring. That's not the value to those plans for anyone. It's Yammer, Video Hosting, Legal Hold, Compliance Tools, BI, GPO, etc.

                          Yeah, you're right. And at the size of 300, some of those things might be pretty cool.

                          What GPO things do you get?

                          Yammer's valuable? We get it as part of our EA but it sees almost no use.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
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                            @Jason said:

                            Yammer's valuable? We get it as part of our EA but it sees almost no use.

                            Yeah, it can be, especially in a large company. It's got its high points. It is a bit like an internal Facebook page. It is good for cutting chatter on other systems while keeping people up to date. Not for every company and we only use it very lightly. But it is nice that it is searchable and we can be a bit more social while being very spread out.

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                            • BRRABillB
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                              Can someone summarize the various MS offerings for me? This topic has gotten me even more confused, I think.

                              Is the storage section of O365 not really 0365 but ODfB?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
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                                O365 is just subscription licensing of MS products.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
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                                  ODfB is one of the storage pieces of Sharepoint. Sharepoint is offered through O365.

                                  So you can run your own ODfB or you can get it hosted by MS.

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                                  • BRRABillB
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                                    Interesting...

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      ODfB is the new branding on the old Groove product.

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                                      • BRRABillB
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                                        QUESTION:

                                        Obviously these cloud storage services in the SOHO space have no problem storing the user's own files, and sharing these files out.

                                        How do you deal with files the everyone in the company needs to access? We have GBs worth of files we all use. We throw them on a common folder on the server, and that's that. How do you replicate that in cloud? Also, can you selectively do permissions in the cloud? Say you want the Word Processing people to have full access, and 3 other employees read/write, and everyone else read.

                                        I know you can do this when sharing a link, but that would get annoying having to do it company wide.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                                          @BRRABill so we do this one way and we have a customer that does it a different way.

                                          NTG's Approach: We have Sharepoint and that goes to everyone. So the files for "everyone" to see, which are small in size and number, go there. That's the "corporate" data stuff. Things that are really not personal to people. There should be very few of these as there is just rarely a need for everyone to share data of that nature that is not structured.

                                          Client's Approach: We have a large client that has a similar need but does not have Sharepoint and needs to share executables and other file types impractical for Sharepoint. They use some account trickery in ownCloud to make "generic" users and groups that are shared out to everyone. Ends up working like a big generic file share.

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                                          • BRRABillB
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                                            So, as an example, we do a lot of Word Documents for each study we do.

                                            Questionnaires, letters to respondents, reports, etc..

                                            Right now it's all stored on a local drive. That's the kind of thing you'd put into SharePoint?

                                            How granular are the permissions?

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