With the retirement of the Microsoft Small Business Server product many of our clients have made the move to Microsoft Office 365 for their cloud services and in many cases no longer require an on-premise server at all.

We have handled countless installations and migrations of data from local servers and other hosted solutions to Office 365. 

The Office 365 Business products are perfect fit for most New Zealand businesses and provide access to cloud hosted email, file storage and communication services, as well as local installations of the Microsoft Office suite of programs.

Positive IT are Microsoft Partners and are able to provide assistance with choosing the best plan for your business as well as setup and migration of your existing data and ongoing administration and support.

The Office 365 Business Essentials plan supports up to 300 users and is priced at $6.90 user/month (with an annual commitment) and includes:

• Exchange Online - Email hosting with 50GB mailbox per user
• Web version of Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• OneDrive for Business - File storage and sharing with 1 TB of storage per user
• Company-wide intranet and team sites with SharePoint (includes 1TB of shared storage plus 10 GB per additional user)
• SharePoint Online - Online meetings with video conferencing
• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Planner

The Office 365 Business Premium plan is priced at $17.30 user/month (with an annual commitment) and includes all of the above as well as desktop versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote (plus Access and Publisher for PC only)

More details of the Office 365 plans and products can be found here.

*Product details and pricing are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change, please refer to the Microsoft Office 365 product page for current details.