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bitchstewie

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211 months

Sunday 28th August 2016
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We're looking into migrating Office 365 rather than upgrading our existing Exchange system.

Putting to one side any potential hassle a migration would bring how's 365 once on it for things like availability?

bitchstewie

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51,371 posts

211 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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Backups are something I need to look into. Bandwidth isn't an issue.

You comment about the admin panel always seeming to report something rings true as I have the same perception from when we login to assign licenses, though I've never paid much attention to them until now as we've only been assigning licenses.

bitchstewie

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51,371 posts

211 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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For me, it doesn't matter whether it's on-site, on our hardware in a colo, or in 365, we still have to do admin.

Reliability is something that is becoming more of a concern. We do well but we're growing and these days if I walked in our server room and switched a ton of stuff off it's a toss up between the internet and email which one people notice first but it's not the stuff you'd expect like file servers and financial apps, it's communication related stuff.

I'm struggling mightily with any kind of rational argument to be advocating several boxes onsite in a DAG when we already have an E3 license for all staff under our EA.