Microsoft 365 Business Reviews

We use the cloud deployment model. We use it internally here for our business software for our office software and for our computers. We also use it for mailboxes, SharePoint, and OneDrive, all of the platforms.

The Office software is the most valuable aspect of this solution. 

The flexibility of having a subscription for the Office software, rather than having any upfront costs is the best part of this solution.

The ability to add or remove licenses at the drop of a hat when someone new starts or leaves the business is another valuable feature. 

It would be better if it was cheaper. 

There are various things that you need to use PowerShell to do. That would be good. You could do them through the management portal, rather than through PowerShell. That's the biggest improvement I would like to see.

It seems pretty stable. There are issues with it every now and again but it seems to be on the whole, pretty stable.

My company has ten users.

Sometimes technical support is great, sometimes it is terrible. It really depends on what you've actually logged with them and who at Microsoft is dealing with it. It is a really mixed experience.

A negative experience we have had with them is when we arranged times for them to call us back and they just didn't call and we called back the following day but they just don't keep appointments.

I would say on the whole they are good. The majority are good. They can be quite flaky. It depends on who you're speaking to. Some of them are brilliant, some of them don't even know what they're doing.

We previously used an on-prem Microsoft solution. It was all Microsoft products but it was not Office 365, it was on-premises.

Because we are an IT company the initial setup was very straightforward. We are all technical here.

The setup is not just a one-off job, it is an ongoing thing. People come and go so you add and remove people all the time.

We deployed it on our own. We are an IT company and provide IT services to other companies. One staff is enough to deploy it on their own. We deploy for smaller businesses.

We are Microsoft partners so it doesn't cost us anything. 

My advice would be to make sure to find everything out before you start appointments. Make sure you know who is getting what and what sort of licenses you need. Be well-prepped before you start.

Be sure you know what licenses you have and the license management. Make sure that you know what you are doing without a fuss because if you make a mistake with that, then you can potentially make a bit of a mess of things.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

Microsoft 365 can be useful for SharePoint, our personal documents, and Outlook, among other applications.

The on-prem version is better. I prefer to work directly on my laptop.

The installation process is straightforward. 

I do not like Outlook. They should be able to build something better.

The product could be more stable and the performance could be better.

The cloud performance and the ability to work remotely are actually not very good. I prefer to work on-prem on my laptop. The quality is better.

We just started using this solution. It hasn't been that long yet. It's been a few weeks, or maybe a month so far.

The stability is okay. It could use some improvement. Especially in Outlook. The performance is poor when it comes to the cloud version. I do not like it.

We have about 160,000 users on the solution at this time. 

I've never contacted technical support. I cannot speak to how helpful or responsive they would be as I have no experience dealing with them directly.

We did not use a different solution. We simply used the previous iteration of Microsoft.

The installation is pretty simple. The solution simply runs in the background, and therefore, there's not much needed for a setup.

In my organization, I'm not sure how many people actually handle deployment or maintenance.

I can handle the setup process myself. I did not need the assistance of an integrator or consultant. 

I don't handle any licensing or payments related to the solution. I can't speak to how much the solution costs the organization or how often we pay for licenses (whether it is monthly or yearly).

Since we are using the cloud-based version of the solution, we're likely always on the latest iteration. It's probably up-to-date.

I'm not a big fan of the solution, especially the cloud offering. I prefer when it is on my laptop. I do not like working on the cloud. The version just isn't as good. For that reason, I would rate the solution at a four out of ten.

I'd recommend the solution as it's really the only solution on the market.

We use Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.

Both stability and performance are valuable features. The user experience is pretty good on all this.

Also, this product can be integrated easily with other existing tools.

The licensing price could be better. We have a yearly license.

I've been using it for more than two and a half years.

I use the cloud-based solution.

It is a stable solution.

We have approximately 7,000 users.

Because it's a cloud-based solution, installation is straightforward.

We have a team of five to six people for deployment and maintenance.

We have a yearly license, and the price could be better.

I would recommend this solution and would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

I work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well.

I use Microsoft 365 Business for content creation.

I like the base functionality. It works as expected. 

I'm not going to say I got wowed by it. It is something that has always been presented to me as the product to use. 

Over the years, I have become familiar with it and I feel comfortable using it.

As an example, there isn't a clean transfer to a Google Doc outside of hosting it as a .docx file. That seems to be the functionality that would probably have to be updated on a Google Docs side, and not necessarily Microsoft 365.

I have been using this solution for several years. It's been since elementary school.

I haven't had any issues with the stability of Microsoft 365 Business. It has worked as expected without giving me any major issues.

It's a scalable solution. 

Virtually everybody in the organization is using this solution. Outside of maybe a couple of people on the engineering team, only because they are not responsible for the content creation.

We have approximately 75 people in our organization who use this solution.

I have not had to contact technical support. I haven't had any real issues. If anyone has any questions, they just ask me, but I am not the official administrator for the product.

It pretty much just sits alone. We don' really require anyone to maintain this solution.

I don't have any information on the pricing. I do not administer the license, that falls with the CFO.

You know exactly what you are going to get whenever you use it. It won't necessarily wow you but it gets you from point A to point B, and that is what is important.

I would rate Microsoft 365 Business a seven out of ten.

We are using this solution for many of its features, such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Microsoft 365 Business is easy to use and user-friendly. 

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for approximately one year.

The solution is overall stable. However, while using Teams there can be some performance issues during meetings.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 50 users using this solution in my organization.

We have not needed to use the technical support for Microsoft 365 Business.

The installation is easy. Everything is on the cloud, you download the solution and install it.

We did the implementation ourselves.

There is an annual license required for this solution. For a smaller organization, it could be expensive.

I rate Microsoft 365 Business an eight out of ten.

We use the product for all kinds of stuff. We use it for Excel, for Outlook, for team collaboration, for sharing documents, et cetera. We take advantage of it in order to do a lot of collaboration with colleagues.

The solution so far has been excellent. I've been very happy with its capabilities. 

The solution makes it easy to handle collaboration tasks. 

The product has proven to be very stable, and therefore, it is very reliable. I never have had any problems with any kind of situation where I couldn't get my documents. It is very, very reliable and very consistent.

The product scales very well.

The solution needs to make sure it does have the scalability potential in place for large-scale organizations. As a smaller organization, I can't speak to how scalable it would be for very big companies.

It should be a bit more user-friendly. It should be less click to get to what you need. this would help people use it more efficiently.

I've been using the solution for a very long time. It's been mostly five to six years at this point. I have a lot of experience with it.

The product is very reliable and very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

The scalability is there if you need to expand. 

That said, we are a small organization of 500 people and therefore haven't tested the limits of scaling. I'm unsure as to how big it can go.

I've never had any technical issues with the product and therefore have not had to reach out to support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are. However, the fact that I haven't spoken with them reflects highly on the quality of the product itself. 

We've always used Microsoft. I cannot recall using any other product.

I don't have any experience with the installation aspect of the solution. It's not something that I've handled before. I'm not sure what the deployment is like or how easy it is to implement.

I don't handle payments and licensing. I can't speak to how much the company pays or if we're set up on a monthly or yearly payment schedule. 

It's my understanding that we did not look at other options before choosing this product.

We're customers and end-users. 

Due to the fact that we are on the cloud deployment model, we are always using the latest version of the solution. Microsoft automatically keeps everything up to date. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. So far, we've been happy with how it works and what we can do with it.

I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies. 

The features that I like best with Microsoft 365 Business are that the files are available offline. When I start Confluence, when I'm on the go, let's say on the plane, I can still modify my files and then when I get to coverage they are synchronized with the cloud. That makes it really strong. Then of course there is the Office support. You need to buy Office products anyway these days and it's actually coming in a bundle.

In terms of what could be improved, they are continuously developing it, but sometimes not necessarily in a good direction. There are changes happening every three months so you actually have to learn some tools again. I'll give you an example. Teams used to be really good and now, I have a feeling that they hired developers from Skype Business because it's actually not very good.

The same with some other tools which are actually being developed, then all of a sudden they are not as good. For example, OneNote. OneNote is a really good tool or used to be a good tool, but now nowadays, it is a bit like Confluence and other corporate tools. I cannot tag anybody. If I make a note in OneNote, I have to send them an email with the link otherwise nobody will actually check it.

There is room for improvement.

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for about six years.

It is license-based. You can buy one license and you can buy 10 licenses and it still works very well, even if there is a new colleague coming on.

It literally takes 10 minutes to get a new license.

The initial setup is really easy.

The whole architecture is really simple. Since 365 offers these AD login, the globalized login, setting up Windows and Office 365 takes about half an hour. 

I'm actually using a Mac book now for the last two or three months, and that is not complicated either.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Microsoft 365 Business somewhere between seven or eight. Let's put it at an eight.

I would recommend Microsoft 365 Business. I would tell people that when they first set it up, I mean the very initial set up, not for the laptop but for the company's set up, they should be clever when choosing the name of the company inside the ecosystem because it seems that when our IT guys chose the name they made a mistake. After the company name they put the company's address, the previous address, and now it stays there forever. So the main SharePoint or the main link to the company's website, still has the company's old address in its name. That's actually stupid, but otherwise I would recommend it.

We primarily use the solution for email, collaboration, some business applications like Sharepoint, and the Exchange server.

For example, we have depended heavily on it for our remote work capability, we have worked 100% remotely since the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

The email on offer is very nice. It's very easy to use. We've enjoyed that aspect so far. It's very clearly laid out.

We can easily collaborate between users with. We can share and work on documents, for example. 

The solution has the capabilities to help me organize my week.

The product is very proactive. They know there are issues before we report them and they alert us to the fact that they are working to fix things.

For the most part, the solution is very user-friendly.

The initial setup is extremely straightforward.

Microsoft is having some issues now and therefore it may not be the best time to evaluate them. However, they acknowledge that they have the issues. They are working to fix things.

The stability is a real issue right now. It's something that they need to fix.

It's a bit complex in itself when you get into items such as security or compliance. That said, if you're knowledgeable it's no trouble. We are excited to see the end result after the various roll outs that MS is currently carrying on.

I've been using the solution for years. It's been a long time. I have quite a bit of experience with the product.

The stability is not so good. It's an aspect of the solution we really don't like. They need to work on this. There is some stability, however, there are some issues with integrations. I am assuming that these recent stability issues stem from the various rollouts and integration activities that MS is carrying out to better improve the solution.

The solution scales easily. If you want to add people, you simply add them. However, that means you need to buy more licenses, so your cost will go up.

Support can be a bit better, however, they are quite good at being proactive. Usually, they know there is a problem before we do, and by the time we reach out they are working on a fix of some sort.

Some of their support is AI as well, which means that over time, as it learns, it will get better and more effective. Basically, it needs to be a bit more robust. It needs to be more flexible in terms of understanding what you're looking for. That will likely come /improve with time.

We did use Outlook and Exchange, however, the ease of managing a SaaS versus on-prem meant it was more scalable and it's easy to manage. We didn't have to bother with any back-end integration.

The initial setup is not complex at all. It was straightforward for our team. Basically, you log in online and download the software and everything is basically automatically set up so it's easy. You don't have to worry about complexities.

The deployment just takes a few minutes. It's very fast and easy. Of course, the download time depends on the speed of your internet.

We handled the process ourselves. We did not need the assistance of an integrator or consultant. It was all done in-house.

A bit of a tough one to calculate for MS365 but I would say that it is positive, very positive.

The licensing is flexible. You can pay yearly or monthly. It's up to you.

The overall cost is relative. There aren't a lot of other mainstream options, except for maybe Google Email.

Google Apps

We are using the latest version of the solution at this point. I cannot recall the exact version number, however. It may be the 2019 release.

Currently, we have about 30 people on our team.

We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward. We have no plans to change to something else.

I'd recommend this solution to other organizations. I would rate it at an 8 out of 10. The collaboration capabilities we have now are amazing. We really appreciate what it empowers us to achieve.