Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E1
Help your teams accomplish more, faster.
Overview:
Help your teams accomplish more, faster. With Office 365 you can work on documents across devices, right from a browser, to move projects forward wherever team members are working. No version glitches either. Files are always up to date and you can work together on the same document at the same time. Sharing files inside and outside your organization is simple. And when you need to meet online, join from anywhere. HD video and screen sharing help you get farther faster.
Services tailored to your business
Your business is unique, with its own set of needs. Office 365 gives you the flexibility to get exactly the services you want, which saves you costs. You can combine Office 365 with your existing investments, like previous versions of Office, and connect users directly from their familiar applications. If you have users with different needs, you can mix and match services for them, so you can provide the tools to those who need them in a cost-effective way.
Advanced IT controls without the maintenance overhead
Stop managing servers. Gain IT power and control while reducing your IT overhead and hassles. Office 365 gives you a 99.9% uptime guarantee, so you can spend more time advancing your business. And you're in control. Move to the cloud on your terms by connecting your on-premises servers and migrating to Office 365 on your timeframe. You can manage your services easily from any browser and also automate management tasks using PowerShell commands.
Features:
| Office 365 Enterprise E1 includes: | |
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| Email and calendars | Use business-class email through a rich and familiar Outlook experience you can access from your desktop1 or from a web browser using the Outlook Web App. Get a 50 GB mailbox per user and send attachments up to 25 MB. |
| Online conferencing | Host online meetings with audio and video using one-click screen sharing and HD video conferencing. |
| Instant messaging and Skype connectivity | Connect with other Lync users via instant message, voice calls, and video calls, and let people know your availability with your online status. Share presence, IM, and audio calling with Skype users. |
| Simple file sharing | OneDrive for Business provides 1 TB of storage for each user for virtually anywhere access to their documents. Share files with others inside and outside the organization, control who can see and edit each file, and easily sync files with PCs and devices. |
| Team sites | Enable easy access and sharing of documents with 10 GB baseline storage plus 500 MB of storage per user. |
| Site mailboxes | Make it easier for teams to collaborate. Store and share email and documents in project-specific folders, so everyone on the team can find the information they need fast. |
| Yammer Enterprise | Keep ideas and work moving with enterprise social networking that makes collaborating with the right people easy and that comes with advanced support, security, administration, and integrations. |
| Office Online | Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from a browser. |
| Mobility | Sync email, calendar, and contacts; access SharePoint sites; view and edit Office documents with Office Online using a browser on Windows Phone, iOS, and Android devices. Use the OneNote, OWA, Lync Mobile, and SharePoint Newsfeed apps on most devices.2 |
| Apps for Office and SharePoint | New third-party and customer-developed apps work with Office and SharePoint to bring web services right into your documents and sites. |
| All Office 365 for business plans include: | |
| Reliability | Get peace of mind knowing your services are available with a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, financially backed service level agreement (SLA). |
| Security | Cutting-edge security practices with five layers of security and proactive monitoring help keep customer data safe. |
| Privacy | Your data belongs to you. Microsoft does not scan emails or documents for advertising purposes. |
| Administration | The admin portal provides IT detailed configuration options for your services, either from an online portal or through automated management with PowerShell commands. You can use the Admin app to manage your services on the go. |
| Up to date | No need to pay for version upgrades; updates are included in your subscription. New features are rolled out to Office 365 customers in an IT-configurable |
| Support | 24/7 phone support for all IT issues. For less urgent issues, you can create service requests directly through the admin portal. |
| Office 365 FastTrack onboarding service | |
| Office 365 FastTrack and adoption offer | FastTrack is the onboarding experience included for qualified Office 365 customers. Microsoft engineers help you onboard your Office 365 services, enabling you to quickly get started with Office 365 and then easily move to widespread use. Limited-time adoption offer: In addition to FastTrack, for a limited time (September 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015) qualified customers who adopt Office 365 can get additional adoption support or have their IT partner reimbursed for adoption support. |
1. Plans that do not include the desktop version of Office work with the latest version of Outlook, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 (with slight limited functionality), Outlook 2011 for Mac, and Outlook 2008 for Mac.
2. These mobile apps do not require a subscription, but may have other requirements
System Requirement:
Applies to: Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Small Business, Office 365 Midsize, Office 365 Government K1, Office 365 Government G4, Office 365 Government G3, Office 365 Government G1, Office 365 Enterprise K1, Office 365 Enterprise E4, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Education A4, Office 365 Education A3, Office 365 Education A2, Office 365
For the best experience using Office 365, we recommend that you always use the latest browsers, Office clients, and apps. We also recommend that you install software updates when they become available.
Office 365 is designed to work with the following software:
- The current or immediately previous version of Internet Explorer or Firefox, or the latest version of Chrome or Safari.
- Any version of Microsoft Office in mainstream support.
Although Microsoft does not recommend that you connect to Office 365 by using older browsers and clients, we provide limited support so long as that software is supported by its manufacturer. Specifically, if you continue to use older browsers and clients:
- Office 365 won't deliberately prevent you from connecting to the service.
- Office 365 won't provide code fixes to resolve problems related to those clients, but it will offer security fixes as needed.
- The quality of the user experience will diminish over time.
Office 365 does not support any software used with the service that is not supported by its manufacturer.
Web browsers: Internet Explorer
Office 365 is designed to work with the current or immediately previous version of Internet Explorer. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer after it is released. Office 365 might continue to work with versions of Internet Explorer other than the current and immediately previous versions for some time after the release of a new version of Internet Explorer, but Office 365 can't provide any guarantees.
When accessing Office 365 from older versions of Internet Explorer, users may experience known issues and limitations depending on the versions of Internet Explorer, including:
- Internet Explorer 9 Office 365 does not offer code fixes to resolve problems you encounter when using the service with Internet Explorer 9. You should expect the quality of the user experience to diminish over time, and that many new Office 365 experiences might not work at all.
- Internet Explorer 8 The user experience sending and receiving email with Outlook Web App and Internet Explorer 8 might be substantially diminished, especially when used on Windows XP or with low memory devices. Office 365 does not offer code fixes to resolve problems you encounter when using the service with Internet Explorer 8, and new Office 365 experiences might not work at all. You should also expect the quality of the user experience with Internet Explorer 8 to diminish further in the near future. Beginning in May 2014, Internet Explorer 8 will only display Outlook Web App Light. If you are an Office 365 admin, you will see a notification of this change in the Message Center in the Office 365 admin center 30 days before the change takes place.
If your organization is dependent upon Internet Explorer 8 to access older Web apps and services, you may want to consider upgrading to Internet Explorer 11 and evaluating Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11. This update helps provide better backward compatibility for legacy Web apps.
Note: Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates.
Web browsers: Firefox, Chrome, and Safari
Office 365 is designed to work with the current or immediately previous version of Firefox, or the latest version of Chrome or Safari. Microsoft supports only browser versions that are also supported by the browser's manufacturer. Typically, this is only the most current version. Firefox and Chrome are both designed to stream updates your devices every six weeks. Many common problems with these browsers are resolved in the next update.
Office clients in mainstream support
Most Office 365 plans provide you with the latest versions of Office desktop applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. To compare the availability of Office applications and features across Office 365 plans
You can also use supported Microsoft Office clients with your Office 365 subscription. Office 365 is designed to work with any version of Microsoft Office that is in mainstream support. Although most new Office 365 experiences are designed for the latest version of Office, some new features might work with older versions of Office that are in mainstream support.
Office subscription software licenses (Office 365 ProPlus, Office Professional Plus 2010, and the Lync client provided with your Office 365 service) entitle you to use the current version of the software and do not include downgrade rights to older versions of the software. Microsoft may provide an upgrade period during which your subscription entitles you to use both a current and previous version of the software.
Note: [1] Mainstream support ends for Office Professional Plus 2010 on October 13, 2015. [2] Mainstream support ends for Office Professional Plus 2013 on April 10, 2018.
Office clients in extended support
Although Office clients in extended support were not designed to work with Office 365, they should continue to connect to the Office 365 service. We will provide a notice consistent with our Service Pack Support Lifecycle Policy if there is a substantial degradation of the user experience with an Office client that is in extended support or if that Office client no longer connects to the Office 365 service.
Office 365 Support provides assistance with older clients, offering workarounds or how-to information when possible. However, in many cases, the only solution Office 365 Support can offer for a problem with an older browser or client is to upgrade it.
Note: Office 365 is not designed to work with Office 2007 because Office 2007 left mainstream support on October 12, 2012. Office 365 does not offer code fixes to resolve problems you encounter when using the service with Office 2007. You should expect the quality of the user experience to diminish over time, and many new Office 365 experiences will not work at all. We recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible to Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus 2013 for the best experience with Office 365.
Operating system requirements
Office 365 does not have an operating system requirement, except that the operating system you use must be supported by its manufacturer. However, there might be advanced Office 365 configuration options, features, scenarios, or tools that have explicit dependencies on an operating system or behave differently on different operating systems.
Note: Windows XP leaves extended support on April 8, 2014. Although Office 365 will not block users from connecting to the service from Windows XP devices after this date, you should expect the user experience to diminish over time. Users with low-memory devices running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 8 will have a substantially diminished browser experience with Office 365.
Office Service Packs and public updates from Microsoft
The Microsoft Service Pack Lifecycle Support Policy requires you to install Office Service Packs within 12 months of its release. Office 365 requires you to be in compliance with this policy.
Automatic public updates contain critical security fixes for Microsoft products. Office 365 strongly recommends that customers accept automatic updates from Microsoft both to secure their environments and to have the best experience with Office 365. Office 365 ProPlus and Lync Basic users can only defer installing updates for 12 months from date of release.
Office 365 Comparison:
| Small business | Midsize business | Enterprise | |||||
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| Not sure? Let us help you choose | Office 365 Small Business | Office 365 Small Business Premium | Office 365 Midsize Business | Hosted email (Exchange Online Plan 1) | Office 365 Enterprise E1 | Office 365 Enterprise E3 | Office 365 Enterprise E4 |
| annual payment | annual commitment | ||||||
| User maximum: | 25 users | 25 users | 300 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Full, installed Office applications on up to 5 PCs or Macs. | Desktop versions of:        |
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| Office for tablets- Office on Windows tablets and iPad®. |
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| Business-class email: Get business-class email,2 shared calendars, 50 GB of storage space per user, and the ability to use your own domain name. | |||||||
| Web conferencing, presence, and IM: Conduct meetings over the web with HD video conferencing, screen sharing, and instant messaging. Share presence, IM, and audio calling with Skype users. | |||||||
| File storage and sharing: 1 TB of personal storage for each user with OneDrive for Business. Easily share files internally and externally and control permissions. | |||||||
| Public website: Market your business with a website that is easy to set up, using your own company domain name. No additional hosting fees. | |||||||
| Spam and malware protection: Premium anti-malware protection and anti-spam filtering. | |||||||
| Community and phone support: IT-level web support and 24/7 phone support for critical issues. | |||||||
| Guaranteed 99.9% uptime: Get peace of mind knowing your services are available with a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, financially backed service level agreement (SLA). | |||||||
| Intranet site for your teams: SharePoint sites provide workspaces with customizable security settings for individual teams within the organization. | |||||||
| Office Online: Create and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files via a web browser. | (View attachments only) | ||||||
| Site mailboxes: Store and share email and documents in project-specific folders, allowing for easier team collaboration. | |||||||
| Active Directory integration: Manage user credentials and permissions. Single sign-on and synchronization with Active Directory. | |||||||
| Mobile apps: Access, edit, and view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on iPad, iPhone®, Android phone, and Windows Phone. Use the OneNote, OWA, Lync Mobile, and SharePoint Newsfeed apps on most devices.3 | |||||||
| Yammer Enterprise: Enterprise social networking with advanced support, security, administration, and integrations. | |||||||
| Advanced email: Information Rights Management, archiving and legal hold capabilities, and unlimited storage. | |||||||
| eDiscovery Center: Tools to support compliance. Search across SharePoint sites and Exchange mailboxes. | |||||||
| Voicemail: Hosted voicemail support with auto attendant capabilities. | |||||||
| Self-service Business Intelligence: Discover (Power Query), analyze (Power Pivot), and visualize (Power View and Power Map) data from multiple sources with Excel. | |||||||
| Enterprise voice: Enhance or replace traditional PBX phone systems with the call capabilities offered in Lync Server 2013 Plus CAL.4 | |||||||
Other plans and related information
- Please note: Office 365 Small Business can only be combined with an Office 365 Small Business Premium subscription or Office 365 ProPlus and Windows Intune. Office 365 Small Business Premium can only be combined with Office 365 Small Business and Windows Intune. An Office 365 Midsize Business subscription cannot be combined with Office 365 Small Business or Office 365 Small Business Premium. Office 365 Enterprise plans enable you to combine the Office 365 Enterprise E1, E3, and E4 plans, the Office 365 Enterprise K1 plan (for kiosk workers), and the full range of standalone offers for individual services.
- Individual services: get business-class email with Exchange Online or online storage, file sync and sharing with OneDrive for Business. Kiosk plans are also available for deskless workers.
- Office options: if your organization is just looking for Office and no IT services, there are two options for businesses that need more applications for a larger employee base and there is also Office 365 ProPlus, a subscription-based version that offers additional capabilities.
- Plans that do not include the desktop version of Office work with the latest version of Office, Office 2010, Office 2007 (with slightly limited functionality), Office 2011 for Mac, and Office 2008 for Mac.
1. Windows PC client programs and/or features only. Cannot be used across devices.
2. Users can connect the following versions of Outlook to their hosted email, so they can use the rich client application they already know: the latest version of Outlook, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 (with slightly limited functionality), Outlook 2011 for Mac, and Outlook 2008 for Mac.
3. These mobile apps do not require a subscription, but may have other requirements.
4. Lync Server 2013 Plus CAL requires a customer to purchase and deploy an on-premises Lync Server to enhance or replace traditional PBX systems.