Office 365 pros and cons

There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right.

Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security).

It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place.

The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint.

Reliable without any glitches.

The integration with other applications is pretty good.

The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use.

Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic.

My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint.

I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools.

It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating.

Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions.

The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question.

The online applications have limited functionality compared to the local applications.

Could include integration with other single sign-on solutions.

If two people update the same file, it causes issues.

I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well.

Integration with other platforms can be improved.

In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it.

I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app.