Office 365 Small Business Premium

Office 365 works best with the latest version of Office, Office 2010, and Office 2011 for Mac. Office 365 works with slightly limited functionality with Office 2007. If you have an earlier edition of Office, you will need to update to a newer version of Office in order to use Office 365; or you can subscribe to one of the many Office 365 plans that include the latest version of Office. In addition to getting the latest version of Office as part of your subscription, you will also get automatic updates, so your Office will always be up to date. Compare plans.

"The cloud" is a friendly way of describing web-based computing services that are hosted outside of your organization. When you use cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure resides off your property (off-premises), and is maintained by a third party (hosted), instead of residing on a server at your home or business (on-premises) that you maintain. With Office 365, for example, information storage, computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud—everything from web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage. Because this infrastructure is located online or “in the cloud,” you can access it virtually anywhere, from a desktop, PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or other device with an Internet connection.

Enterprise Agreement Customers (typically 250+ seats) EA Direct or EA Indirect Government License customers, are advised to purchase Office 365 through your existing Volume License agreement. Please contact your Microsoft Account Manager for more information. All other customers can purchase Office 365 plans through Telstra T-Suite. Please visit the Telstra T-Suite site for payment options.

You need to purchase only one Office 365 seat license.

You can cancel your subscription at any time. However, depending on the product and the type of subscription you have, there may be a penalty for cancelingcancelling before the end of your contract. For subscriptions with a month-to-month commitment there is no penalty for cancelling your contract at any time. Subscriptions with an annual commitment may incur some penalties if cancelled early. Read the complete Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement.

Your data is yours. If you decide to cancel your Office 365 subscription, you can download your data—for example, your email and documents on team sites—and save it to another location. You should save your data before you cancel. All the data associated with your Office 365 account is deleted 90 days after cancellation.

You cannot migrate between an Office 365 Small Business and an Office 365 Enterprise plan. In order to change from a Small Business plan to an Enterprise plan or vice versa, you must first cancel your account with the plan you currently have, and then sign up for a different one. You can migrate your account within plan families, for example, from Small Business to Small Business Premium, or from one Enterprise plan to another.

You can add the domain name you own to Office 365 to create both domain-based email addresses and a public-facing website. Find more domain-related answers here.

Microsoft Partners are trained IT and development companies that can help you move to Office 365 or develop custom solutions for your business. You can find a listing of all of our Microsoft Partners in Microsoft Pinpoint.