Call That Girl’s Remote Support & Office 365 Show 17

Lisa Hendrickson | June 5, 2015 | 0 Comments

Published date: 02/11/2015 Office 365 Show #17: Basics of Office 365

Show Notes

What is Office 365?
- A family of products
  - Home
  - Personal—Cheapest
  - *Business*
    - Exchange
- You do not want to use home or personal editions on work or business computers.
- Online version or download only version of Office 365.
Google Apps support with Outlook is not great.
- There are known sync issues with Google Apps and Outlook.
  - Some of these issues include:
    - Will break/stop working properly.
    - Contacts/Calendars tend to have syncing problems.
      - Paying to fix this with a professional can be expensive and time consuming.
HIPAA compliance with clients in software programs and in cloud computing and storage can be risky.
- Read Google’s fine print because their HIPAA compliance is questionable, and would not be advisable to recommend that clients use Google Apps.
  - Benefit to Microsoft’s software (Exchange, SharePoint, Outlook, etc] is that it is stamped the HIPAA compliance seal of approval.
Keep client’s medical and personally identifiable information confidential!
Google does not have email encryption.
- Postini encryption was used previously with Google.
- Now Google partners with a third party, ZixCorp, to provide the option for email encryption if desired by the user.
POP3, IMAP, and Exchange
- IMAP syncing of contacts and calendar issues.
- Exchange, Exchange Online
  - Business class email
  - Formerly known as Hosted Exchange