Office 365 has come a long way

In reality, Office 365 is just more than just Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It has become a lot more like a Project collaboration system enhancing business productivity with all the right tools in place. The apps are now equipped with AI and other cutting-edge innovations to give businesses a strong foundation to carry out their operations. The different Office 365 plans are there for companies of different sizes. The plans like Office 365 E1, Office 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Office 365 subscriptions for Government and Education will remain unchanged under this rollout of changes in Microsoft 365.

The new changes facilitate the SME’s with newer subscription plans

At least, this is what Microsoft says officially. Microsoft has now evolved every module of O365 with cloud and AI, thus, providing modern SME’s with a lot of opportunities already. The Office 365 plans like ProPlus has been very popular with businesses and with the Addition of Teams into Office 365, they get a chance to host rich virtual meetings utilizing the cloud storage and other cutting-edge innovative components to make them do more with less.

Summary of changes

To cut the Long story short, here is a summary of the name changes:

• Office 365 Business Premium > Microsoft 365 Business Standard
• Office 365 Business > Microsoft 365 Apps for Business
• Office 365 ProPlus > Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
• Office 365 Business Essentials > Microsoft 365 Business Basic
• Microsoft 365 Business > Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Also Read: 5 processes to automate for better Microsoft CSP Productivity

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Office 365 plans for Exchange Online

If you plan to migrate to Exchange Online anytime soon, you must take into account one of the office 365 subscription plan from a list of plans provided by Microsoft. Every Exchange Online user is assigned to some subscription plan. Plans like Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise F1 and Office 365 Enterprise E5 are offered with multiple options according to your cloud business needs. Once you subscribe to a plan, you get access to your own mailbox. All the messages and folders in your mailbox are now hosted at Exchange Server running at Microsoft datacenter.

Exchange Web Services (EWS)

This is another feature to look forward to while shifting to Exchange Online. Exchange Web Services (EWS) is a reliable API for working with mailbox content. This API has many benefits over other APIs. Like it has its own personation model which favors the developers while utilizing this API. EWS is also language independent. It’s got almost all features necessary for client applications, therefore it is quite robust.

Microsoft Exchange Public Folders

Information sharing is essential in every system. When shifting to Exchange Online, you will experience more control over information sharing. The Public Folders feature is designed to achieve information sharing in a streamlined manner. It makes Outlook users access common folders and share information from these folders. Access on Public folders can be controlled by Admins as they can assign permissions. With Microsoft Exchange Public Folders, you can:

• Make use of Mail-enabled Public Folders
• Have separate folders for each project to stay more organized
• Create custom templates for automatic replies
• Make calendars and track your team’s progress
• Add permissions to each folder and many more

MachPanel Automation module for Exchange Server

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) designed to provide you with best business automation solution for your cloud business. MachPanel’s Automation module for Exchange offers standalone, highly available or multi-datacenter Exchange deployments and makes provisioning, management, selling and billing much simpler for your cloud business. There is ardent customer support and most user-friendly control panel which offers stability, flexibility and comprehensive functionality to manage mail domains, mailboxes, distribution lists, contacts, public folders for your Exchange Online. This cut shorts your time to market and so you can focus more on the growth and scalability of your business rather than operation hassles.

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