Must have the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and isolate problems using all available resources.
“All available resources” probably means a fax machine and a typewriter.
Windows 10 being announced today.
[Microsoft are skipping Windows 9]
Xbox One, tablets, desktop, phone all running the one OS and one app developed runs on all these products.
Pretty ambitious given the diversity and complexity of the products they develop for. If they get it right it could be a huge win in a number of areas.
Probably the wrong thread.
In work we are looking at migrating our current email server over to 365 from Zimbra. we’ve gotten quotes from a few places and they are averaging £1200 to do the migration along with around £400 support subscription per year. The current subscription for Zimbra is 350 a year.
Are we getting ripped off?
Is 365 worth it?
Is the migration a big job or could out technician who’s in once a week do it?
Any help would be great lads.
How many mailboxes? How much data?
My initial answer to your 3 questions is:
- No
- No
- No (maybe but he would need to be in more than one day a week to complete it)
I’m loosely involved with a migration to 365 and an IBM cloud for all our clients/facilities and it is a cunt of a yolk. Haven’t much to do with the tecnical side of it just the cut over and touch points/connectivity
I would be very surprised if your technician could do it on his own. would take a weekend and a few different resources depending on the size of it
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1025971, member: 1786”]How many mailboxes? How much data?
My initial answer to your 3 questions is:
- No
- No
- No (maybe but he would need to be in more than one day a week to complete it)[/QUOTE]
It is roughly 25. The majority of mailboxes only have a 10mb capacity. There’s about 5 of us with 500mb storage. Actually I think a few of staff have never used their emails as I’ve had to reset some accounts recently.
Fooking hell - what sort of business is this?
That sounds very small.
I’ve no experience with Zimbra, what client to do you use to access it?
A school. Who asked you to put your beak in anyway.
Basic version of Office365 is free for schools.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/compare-office-365-education-plans-FX103045755.aspx
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1026015, member: 1786”]That sounds very small.
I’ve no experience with Zimbra, what client to do you use to access it?[/QUOTE]
Its quite basic to be honest. We access through the web.
[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 1026045, member: 258”]Basic version of Office365 is free for schools.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/compare-office-365-education-plans-FX103045755.aspx[/QUOTE]
I saw that but I think to migrate all your mailboxes and data is where the cost comes.
If it were Outlook mailboxes that size, I would say given the small numbers your technician should be able to do it if he is reasonably competent. I have zero knowledge of Zimbra though, but I’d be surprised if you couldn’t configure an outlook client to pull your mail from the Zimbra server.
Again if it were Outlook I would export all the mailboxes to PST, then create the new users on Office 365, configure the new Outlook client and then import the PSTs back into the new mailboxes. Given the size and seemingly basic setup your currently have I don’t think it would be hard. But without knowing all the details I’m only guessing.
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1026050, member: 1786”]If it were Outlook mailboxes that size, I would say given the small numbers your technician should be able to do it if he is reasonably competent. I have zero knowledge of Zimbra though, but I’d be surprised if you couldn’t configure an outlook client to pull your mail from the Zimbra server.
Again if it were Outlook I would export all the mailboxes to PST, then create the new users on Office 365, configure the new Outlook client and then import the PSTs back into the new mailboxes. Given the size and seemingly basic setup your currently have I don’t think it would be hard. But without knowing all the details I’m only guessing.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for that. If you could do it for less than a grand and offer support for 250 a year, you could have a job coming your way!
session in Brum included
[QUOTE=“Declan Moffat, post: 1026057, member: 376”]Thanks for that. If you could do it for less than a grand and offer support for 250 a year, you could have a job coming your way!
session in Brum included[/QUOTE]
I’ll do it for £800 + travel expenses.
If you went to an data migration specialist and referred to “all” your mailboxes and it turned out to be 20 x 10MB and 5 x 500MB you’d be laughed out of the building.
Do you really need to migrate these mailboxes? How valuable is the data on there?
Like the total size of them could fit on a €10 USB stick. TS is right. A way of export the mailboxes to PST files could be a quick, cheap and easy solution.
The 365 you mention is that Office365 or something else.
You shouldn’t need to pay money to support Office365. That’s the point, Microsoft do that for you.
I’ve set up my brother’s school website on there and in the process of doing the same for other people.
Once you get yourself setup you should be grand.
Plenty of IT Services companies are making handy money reselling Office365 and providing “support”.
That’s what I was thinking. We were quoted 3k last year by a company. Some chances over here. Thanks again for the info.
We use office 365 just for e-mails and I think it works great. E-mails are always up. Before we had it they would go down once a week and some from the IT company would have to come in. Obviously after the usual phone call “Did you try rebooting the server?”.
Our server is on it’s last legs. We only have 10GB of information that we need access to every day, just file sharing. Is there an add on to office 365 that can do this or is it just one drive for business, where you have a desktop programme like dropbox and are constantly syncing to the cloud?
[QUOTE=“stones_off, post: 1026063, member: 1559”]We use office 365 just for e-mails and I think it works great. E-mails are always up. Before we had it they would go down once a week and some from the IT company would have to come in. Obviously after the usual phone call “Did you try rebooting the server?”.
Our server is on it’s last legs. We only have 10GB of information that we need access to every day, just file sharing. Is there an add on to office 365 that can do this or is it just one drive for business, where you have a desktop programme like dropbox and are constantly syncing to the cloud?[/QUOTE]
Ya the simplest thing is to use one drive for business. I haven’t implemented it myself but it would make sense to use it if you are already on Office365.
I’ve implemented Box.com for Business recently and put about 100GB on it. Works really well and has good security features on the back-end allowing you to control who can access what files, similar to how you would with a traditional file server.