To get the full Office 365 experience, we recommend that customers meet our
system prerequisites. Minimum requirements for Office 365 include Office 2007+, IE
7+, Windows XP SP3+
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Office 365 System Requirements
OS
Windows® 7
Windows Vista® SP2
Windows® XP SP3 with RPC over HTTP patch
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Browser – Microsoft Online Portal
Microsoft Internet Explorer® 8 (Windows XP)
Internet Explorer 7 or later (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
Mozilla Firefox 3.x
Apple Safari 3.x
Office Clients
Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2007 SP2
Office 2008 for Mac and Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition
Office 2011 for Mac and Outlook 2011 for Mac
.NET 2.0 or later
Microsoft Lync Server 2010
Browser – OWA
Internet Explorer 7 or later
Firefox 3 or higher
Safari 3 or higher on Macintosh OS X 10.5
Chrome 3 and later versions
Browser – OWA Light
Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
Firefox 2 or higher
Safari 3 or higher
Opera
Office 365 for Professionals and Small Business
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Need Active Directory Sync
Ability to sync/manage user groups
Need advanced archive capabilities
Email archiving for legal compliance
2
Need BES
Blackberry Enterprise Server
3
Growing to >50 users
More than 50 PC org today or tomorrow
4
5
24x7 Phone support
Higher touch vs. community support
Feature
COST To Customer Per User Per
Month:
Mailbox size
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®
Web-based access to email,
calendar, contacts and the
company directory through
Microsoft Outlook Web App, as
well as POP email access with
Exchange Online
Access to sites to keep up to date
with company news and
information with SharePoint
Online
View and make basic edits to
documents on the web with
Office Web Apps
Custom retention policies
Multi-mailbox search
Inbox rules
Delegate access
K1
K2
$4.00
$8.00
1 gigabytes(GB)
Yes
1 gigabytes(GB)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
VIEW ONLY
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No (cannot access other users’ mailboxes, shared
mailboxes, or resource mailboxes)
No (cannot access other users’ mailboxes, shared
mailboxes, or resource mailboxes)
Exchange Online
(Plan 1)
$4.00
Per user/month
Exchange Online
(Plan 2)
$8.00
Per user/month
Exchange Online Kiosk
$2.00 Per user/month
Exchange Online
Archiving
$3.00 Per user/month
Exchange Online
Kiosk $2.00 user/mo.
Exchange Online
(Plan 1) $4.00 user/mo.
Exchange Online
(Plan 2) $8.00 user/mo.
1 gigabytes(GB)
25 gigabytes (GB)*
Unlimited**
Outlook Web App
(regular and light versions)
Yes
Yes
Yes
POP
IMAP
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Outlook Anywhere (MAPI)
No
Yes
Yes
Microsoft Exchange
ActiveSync®
Yes
Yes
Yes
No***
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No (cannot access other users’
mailboxes, shared mailboxes, or
resource mailboxes)
Yes
Yes
Instant messaging
interoperability in OWA
No
Yes (requires Lync Online or
Microsoft Lync Server 2010)
Yes (requires Lync Online or
Microsoft Lync Server 2010)
SMS notifications
No
Yes
Yes
Custom retention policies
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-mailbox search
Personal archive
Voicemail
Legal hold
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feature
Mailbox size
Exchange Web Services
Inbox rules
Delegate access
SharePoint Online
(Plan 1)
$4.00
Per user/month
SharePoint Online
(Plan 2)
$8.00
Per user/month
SharePoint Online
Additional Storage
$.20
Per GB/month
Partner Access Plan
(external partners)
Can access all team sites
by default?
My Site
Enterprise Features
(Access, InfoPath Forms,
Excel and Visio Services)
Office Web Apps
SharePoint Online
Kiosk 1 and Kiosk 2
SharePoint Online
Plan 1
SharePoint Online
Plan 2
$4.00 user/mo.
$8.00 user/mo.
No. External partners can
only access the sites they
have been invited to by
delegated site collection
owners.
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes. Can view Microsoft
Visio® diagrams, visit
Access-based webpages,
view embedded Excel
graphs and fill in and
submit InfoPath forms
Yes. Can view Visio
diagrams, visit Accessbased webpages, view
embedded Excel graphs
and fill in and submit
InfoPath forms
Yes. Can view Visio
diagrams, visit Accessbased webpages, view
embedded Excel graphs
and fill in and submit
InfoPath forms
Yes. Can create and view
Visio diagrams, build and
visit Access-based
webpages, build and view
embedded Excel graphs
and create/publish, fill in
and submit InfoPath forms
View only for K1
View only for E1
View and edit for K2
View and edit for E2
View only.
View and edit
Adds storage to the
company’s overall pooled
quota?
No
No
Yes. 500MB per user
subscription license
Yes. 500MB per user
subscription license
Can be an administrator
of tenant, site or site
collection?
No
No
Yes
Yes
Office Web Apps
Office Web Apps with
SharePoint Online
(Plan 1)
$10
Per user/month
Office Web Apps with
SharePoint Online
(Plan 2)
$14
Per user/month
Windows Live
Office 365
On-Premises
Audience
Consumers
Organizations
Organizations
Storage
Windows Live SkyDrive
SharePoint Online
SharePoint 2010
Authentication
Windows Live ID
IT-managed
IT-managed
Pricing
Free (with ads)
Determined by the Office 365
plan
Office 2010 volume licensing
Ad Supported
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Windows Live Hotmail® Interoperability
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SharePoint Experience
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IT Administration Control
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Document Life Cycle Management
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AD Interoperability
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Auditing
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SLA
N/A
Support
N/A
Supported Browsers
Internet Explorer 7 and later
Internet Explorer 7and later
Internet Explorer 7and later
Firefox 3.5 and later
Firefox 3.5and later
Firefox 3.5 and later
Safari 4 and later
Safari 4 and later
Safari 4 and later
Chrome 3 and later
Lync Online
(Plan 1)
$2.00
Per user/month
Lync Online
(Plan 2)
$5.50
Per user/month
Lync Online
(Plan 3)
$9.50
Per user/month
The partner calling service provides the connectivity to the public phone network and
includes:
Local phone numbers (for incoming and outgoing calls), including the ability to port
existing phone numbers.
Domestic and international calling plans
Emergency calling
**Lync-to-phone requires purchasing a separate calling service from a qualified Office 365 partner**
Office 365 Calling Service Provider Info
Lync Online
(Plan 1) $2.00 per
user/mo.
Feature
Lync Online
(Plan 3) $9.50 per
user/mo.
Lync Online
(Plan 2) $5.50 per
user/mo.
Instant messaging (IM) and presence
Yes
Yes
Yes
Lync-to-Lync audio/video calling (1-to-1)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Lync federation (IM/presence/audio/video)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Click-to-communicate in Office
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authenticated attendee in Lync meetings*
Yes
Yes
Yes
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®
Online Meetings
Yes
No
Yes
Yes (up to 250 attendees)
Yes
Yes (up to 250 attendees)
Initiate ad-hoc and scheduled online meetings
No
Yes
Yes
Initiate multiparty (3 or more users) Lync
audio/video sessions
Initiate interactive data sharing
(screen/application/whiteboard)
Interop with third-party dial-in audio conferencing
services for scheduled meetings
Make and receive calls to any phone number
(requires a calling service from a partner)
Single number across laptop, smartphone and tablet
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
User call controls (transfer, sim-ring, etc.)
No
No
Yes
Ad-hoc conference calling with any phone number
No
No
Yes
Access to Exchange Online voice mail (Exchange
Online Plan 2 required)
Cloud-based interop with partners who provide
calling services (e.g. Jajah)
Rights to Lync Server CALs
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Lync Standard CAL
Lync Enterprise CAL
Lync Standard + Enterprise + Plus CAL
The latest version of Office 2010 desktop applications and
Office Web Apps purchased, connected and delivered
through cloud services.
Office Professional Plus
Office Volume License
Download location
• Office 365 Portal
• VL Software Center
Software
• Office Professional Plus
• Office Standard 2010
• Office Professional Plus 2010
Product Key /
Activation
• Subscription based activation
• Term – 30 days (monthly)
• No keys to manage – only users
• Volume License technologies
• MAK perpetual activation,
KMS 180 days
• Manage KMS and /or MAK keys
When Reduced Functionality
Mode (RFM) starts
• In 60 days since last activation
• “hard” RFM
• MAK: N/A
• KMS: within 180 days
• “Notification mode”
Deployment options
• Office 365 Portal
• Unmanaged & Managed options
• Unmanaged & Managed Options
• App-V
• Terminal Services
# of copies allowed
• 5 active installs on different devices
per user
• No downgrade rights
• Single device per license/activation
• Downgrade rights