As Microsoft partners, Urban IT Support are proud to offer Microsoft 365 (also known as Office 365) to all our customers. Microsoft 365 is the productivity cloud suite from Microsoft designed to help build, run and grow your business. Alongside the Microsoft Office apps (i.e. PowerPoint, Word, Outlook and Excel), Microsoft 365 combines the latest productivity tools (including a professional, modern e-mail platform, OneDrive file sharing and Microsoft Teams) with advanced security and device management. All in all, it offers a fully connected, modern experience – that keeps itself up-to-date!
With Microsoft 365’s mobile apps, you can work wherever you are – no matter where you are – allowing you to store, access, and share documents and information on any device. Likewise, businesses benefit by keeping teams in-touch with each other with video calling, video meetings and team chat in Microsoft Teams.
What is Microsoft 365?
Microsoft 365 is a pay-monthly cloud service – with Microsoft handling the IT for you, protecting against real-world threats, managing devices, and offering the latest business software. With updates appleid automatically and silently in the background, any downtime is minimal – and Microsoft boast a 99.99% uptime guarantee. With this, your team can be productive anywhere – whilst maintaining a secure remote work service and reducing costs.
What are the main features of Microsoft 365?
Office Apps: Main Microsoft Office products (including Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote) are included with most plans, and are kept up-to-date automatically – allowing your business to benefit from the latest features without the hassle of manually upgrading. Each subscription offers Microsoft Office on up to five devices per user, including phones, laptops and tablets.
Calendar and Email: The calendaring and email product includes Exchange and Outlook – allowing access to contacts, emails, and shared calendars from any location on any deice.
File Storage and Sharing: OneDrive is a cloud storage and file sharing solution. It offers 1TB storage per user, and is expandable up to 5TB. OneDrive keeps your files in-sync across your devices – meaning changes you make are going to be updated on all synced devices.
Teamwork and Communication: With Microsoft Teams, you’ll enjoy unified communication including instant messaging, phone calls, video conferencing, and group instant messaging – alongside the ability to hold online video meetings with up to 250 users.
Security: Also available is Microsoft Defender – helping to automatically protect your e-mail against malware, spam, and online threats, whilst supporting your organisation to remain compliant with the GDPR. With Advanced Threat Protection, all email links are scanned before the user has the chance to click them – helping reduce the risk of dodgy viruses!
Benefits of Microsoft 365 for Businesses
Microsoft 365 Business helps small and medium-sized businesses work more efficiently:
Stay Up and Running: If your in-house server crashes, or the office gets destroyed by flood or fire, there’s an inherent risk to your data. With Microsoft 365, data is securely held in the cloud – meaning all business documents and e-mail services remain fully available.
Data Control and Security: Microsoft 365’s built-in security takes care of data security, and makes it easier to know where your data is and who is accessing it.
Work Anywhere at Any Time: Allows your business to work remotely – with little IT skills or special configuration required.
Choosing Microsoft 365 is not going to be an instant switchover, however our Halifax team will carefully plan and manage the switchover to minimise disruption. For more info, including details of which plan is most suitable for your business, get in contact for a chat with our award-winning team. We’re a friendly bunch, we promise!