{"id":896,"date":"2012-08-31T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-09-10T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:55:43","slug":"summary-moving-to-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/summary-moving-to-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary: Moving to Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after completing the migration from Gmail to Office 365, I\u2019m pretty happy with the improvements.&#160; For now, I think the Office 365-based approach with a hosted Exchange Server is everything I need to efficiently manage e-mail on multiple devices and online.&#160; I like the ability to quickly and easily install and configure a full version of Microsoft Office on multiple computers without additional licensing charges, activation, and manual license tracking. With the addition of new features like the <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/\">Microsoft Office App Store<\/a>, I think the overall experience will continue to improve. Of course, if I do decide to make changes, I\u2019ll plan to post the details on this blog. <\/p>\n<h1>Blog Post Index<\/h1>\n<p>Here\u2019s a complete list of the posts related to my move from Gmail to Office 365 (in suggested reading order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/reasons-for-moving-from-gmailpop-to-office-365\/\">Reasons for Moving from Gmail\/POP to Office 365<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>2) <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/office-365-benefits-and-features\/\">Office 365: Benefits and Features<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>3) <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/migrating-from-gmail-to-office-365\/\">Migrating from Gmail to Office 365<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>4) <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/office-365-issues-and-considerations\/\">Office 365 Issues and Considerations<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>5) <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/summary-moving-to-office-365\/\">Summary: Moving to Office 365<\/a> (this post) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Resource for More Information<\/h1>\n<p>In my quest to migrate from Gmail to Office 365, I found a lot of useful information from places around the Web. I have tried to avoid re-writing information that\u2019s better covered elsewhere, and I recommend the following links for more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Data\/blogs.office.com\/b\/microsoft_office_365_blog\/\">The Office 365 Blog<\/a>: This is Microsoft\u2019s official blog for the Office 365 program, and it\u2019s a good place to find official announcements and related features and tips. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.office365.com\/en-us\/default.aspx\">The Microsoft Office 365 Technical Community:<\/a> This site includes a wealth of expert-written posts related to Office 365, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.office365.com\/en-us\/default.aspx\">forums<\/a> allow you to post your own issues and learn from others. The <a href=\"http:\/\/community.office365.com\/en-us\/wikis\/default.aspx\">Wikis<\/a> also provide for a good basic knowledge based of common solutions. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Data\/v\">What&#8217;s new in Outlook 2013 Preview<\/a> (Microsoft TechNet) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/\">Paul Thurrott\u2019s Supersite for Windows<\/a>: Paul\u2019s articles provide both concise and in-depth technical information on new features and service offerings from Microsoft. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2012\/08\/outlook-versus-gmail-a-feature-comparison\/\">Outlook Versus Gmail<\/a>: A Feature Comparison (LifeHacker) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Questions? Comments?<\/h1>\n<p>I\u2019d like to hear others\u2019 questions and experiences with Gmail, Office 365, and other online services, so please feel free to add a comment here. If you have an in-depth technical question, though, it might be best to post to the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.office365.com\/en-us\/default.aspx\">Microsoft Office 365 Technical Community Forums<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after completing the migration from Gmail to Office 365, I\u2019m pretty happy with the improvements.&#160; For now, I think the Office 365-based approach with a hosted Exchange Server is everything I need to efficiently manage e-mail on multiple devices and online.&#160; I like the ability to quickly and easily install and configure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,26,24,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-general","category-it-tips","category-office-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}