We strongly suggest that all users should install Office-365 today, even if you don't plan on licensing it...
"Personal", "Home", or "Business versions of Office-365 "? All of these versions include most ALL of the Office Products.
(Personal and Home include Access, 60 minutes of free Skype/user, and 1 TB of OneDrive/user)
(Business users have 50 GB of OneDrive/user, but it can be managed by the business administrator)
The differences are in how many licenses are included for USERS and/or PCs. Here's a chart so you can understand them better:
License Type |
Users |
PCs |
(Users OR PCs) (includes MACs) |
$ per year |
Cost per PC / Month |
OR |
Cost per user / Month |
Home |
5 |
5 |
5 |
$99 |
$1.65 |
|
$1.65 |
Personal |
1 |
1 |
1 |
$69 |
$5.75 |
|
$5.75 |
Business |
1 |
5 |
5 |
$99 |
$1.65 |
|
$8.25 |
The "Business" version has significant advantages for businesses, which we will explain later.
The "Home" version is usually the best deal, if you don't use it to run a business and:
The "Personal" version usually costs more, but uses the identical installation as the "Home" version. So you do NOT have to decide Personal or Home before you install, since only the Microsoft license is different.
Why buy a "Business" version of Office-365? If you are running a business, both PCs and employees PCs change often. When they do, you need to ensure that one person can assign or reassign licenses, and can also control who has your files and data, who doesn't, and make rapid changes. With a "Home" license, you do not have access to any user's files or folders, other than yours. (You can however, still cancel and reassign a PC's or User's license periodically).
You also need to be able to migrate or set up your user's email, change from a different IT setup or using another cloud office solution. You need the advice, tools, and technical expertise to be able to quickly do this correctly. You will also want to be able to migrate to other Microsoft products, as needed when you grow.
Today, our recommended VAR SherWeb, can hold your hand as you are choosing or setting up ANY business solution, including all your email servers, other vendor's cloud solutions, or any Microsoft product, including Exchange, Azure, etc. SherWeb is one of the largest, and can take care of whatever you need. Talk to a representative today and they will take good care of you.
Please also tell SherWeb that you are a SnapBack user, since your referral keeps SnapBack as free or inexpensive as possible. We have great new apps planned that will integrate and enhance your Office-365 users. Why pay more or try to do it yourself, when all the help is available for no extra charge.
Call SherWeb at: 855-780- 0955 or visit the SherWeb WEBSITE
Office 365 is downloaded directly from Microsoft.com and it's hash is verfied with our records.
We extract only the files needed for an English installation into this folder: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\CDP\SnapBack\Install\office365\
Once extracted and ready to install, the user is promopted via a Scheduled Task to start the install process (since there is no silent install option)
This app works, but is still in development.
This app will also keep Office 365 up to date in the future.