My recommendations, small to very small business… 10 to 300 users.
- Office 365 Business Premium
- One needed. If local PC instalation is a must for more than one user is needed .
- 1 working email address
- Large number of group and team email boxes , 1 user can read shared mailboxes
- Full SharePoint Online, and ability to invite others , also unlisenced users.
- 1TB of storage to share
- Possible to download full office software to PC/MAC/MOBILE
- Full Skype for business can host secure meetings
To be used by Company secretary, head of sales , CFO.. only a few.
2. Office 365 Business Essentials
Alternative to option 1. Can host secure meetings, but all work is online, no offline lisens.
- 1 working email address pr lisens
- email boxes , can read shared mailboxes
- Full SharePoint Online, and ability to invite others , also unlisenced users.
- 1TB of storage to share , adds to existing storage .
- Can edit all office documents online.
- NOT Possible to download full office software to PC/MAC/MOBILE
- Full Skype for business: can host secure meetings
3. Exchange Online (Plan 1)
Working email address , Can read shared mailboxes
Can edit all office documents online.
NOT Possible to download full office software to PC/MAC/MOBILE
NOT Full Skype for business: can not host secure meetings, but can attend.
4. Unlicensed users For FREE
Based on creating a domain user , the domain user can read and edit, can have roles like helpdesk, password admin etc etc . But mail Andress used as login cant be used as an email.
Guest users : Any external user can be added .
The problem with Unlicensed users not beeing able to read email, can be solved by putting all O365 users in a sub domain, and all root domain users on a Apache server.
In my company : Thomas.Reistad@msky.okbase.com is via exchange , and Thomas.Reistad@okbase.com is pop directly from mail server.
30 to 60 euro per month , should then be enough to bring a small business into the cload.