Office 365 is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office product line. The brand encompasses subscription plans that allow use of the Microsoft Office software suite over the life of the subscription, as well as cloud-based software as a service products for business environments, such as hosted Exchange Server and SharePoint Server. All Office 365 plans include automatic updates to their respective software applications at no additional charge, as opposed to conventional licenses for these programs where new versions require purchase of a new license.
I frequently come in to organizations that refer to every instance and version of SharePoint as simply “SharePoint”. This makes it difficult to know if they are referring to on-premises or online, and if on-premises which major and minor version of SharePoint. Being a solution architect responsible for how SharePoint fits within the organization’s enterprise architecture, it is...
Use your e-mail client of choice with Office 365. Learn how to set up POP, IMAP, and SMTP access to mailboxes hosted by Office 365's Exchange Online.