Is paying for Microsoft 365 required for GoDaddy email accounts to work?
Force email to Microsoft 365 Email Essentials, BUT services I "already paid for" expires year 2029
Which Office apps come included with Microsoft 365?
With Microsoft 365 Online Essentials and Business Premium plans, users enjoy access to the following Office apps:
- Word: For creating documents with built in writing-improvement features.
- PowerPoint: Used to create presentations that are impressive and stand out.
- Excel: For creating easy to use spreadsheets, no matter how complex the data.
- Outlook: An integrated solution to manage your email, contacts, calendar, and tasks from a single location.
- Publisher: Used to create professional designs such as marketing materials, newsletters, or flyers.
- Microsoft Teams: An intuitive chat-based app designed to make work collaboration even simpler through chat and video among co-workers and colleagues.
- OneDrive: A cloud storage solution to save, edit, or share files of any type.
- SharePoint: Used to share and manage content and information across organizations.
With Business Premium, users not only have access to the web-app versions of these Office apps, but can also install Office on up to 5 devices of their choosing.
What's the difference between Office 365 and Microsoft 365 from GoDaddy?
Essentially, Microsoft 365 offers everything that Office 365 offers (such as apps), and then some. Microsoft changed the name to more closely reflect the offerings of the product which include innovative Office apps as well as intelligent cloud services.
But if you are already familiar with Office 365, you will also be familiar with Microsoft 365.
Why would I need Office 365 if I already have Microsoft Office installed on my computer?
One of the main benefits is that with Office 365, you are always using the latest version of Microsoft Office programs. The great thing is, you never have to pay anything extra whenever there is an update released. In addition to being able to use Office programs online, you can also install the latest versions of the apps on your computer as well with our Business Premium plan. This means the productivity programs you rely on such as Word, Publisher, OneNote, PowerPoint, and others, are always up to date, keeping you using the latest version of Office.
Another benefit users enjoy is the ability to more easily collaborate with co-workers and team members with documents online. That is because with OneDrive, you can share documents with others securely and effortlessly. You can even hold meetings with screen sharing in real-time using Microsoft Teams. So whereas Microsoft Office installed on a computer works well for the use of Office programs on a single device, Office 365 offers many more integrated features than simply the programs themselves.
Hi Jeff,
I’d like to first clarify the difference between three subscriptions you mentioned.
- Over all Office 365 business subscriptions, we don’t have Office 365 Email Essentialsvia our channel. It looks like this is a subscription from GoDaddy. Based on my research, it may include Exchange Online service. For details of this subscription, I suggest you find GoDaddy support.
- For Office 365 Business Essentials, we have this subscription and the subscription includes Office Online, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Skype for Business Online service. For more details, you can find it via products.office.com/.../office-365-business-essentials.
- For Office 365 Small Business, we do have this subscription and is renamed as Office 365 Business Essentials with additions and improvements via our official channel. In SharePoint aspect, Office 365 Small Business does not have SharePoint Admin Center, which is used to centrally manage SharePoint Online, compared with Office 365 Business Essential.
For “missing site deletion icons/abilities” issue, if you are looking for deleting subsite created by your own, you can delete it via navigate to the site > the gear icon > site settings > delete this site. If you are looking for deleting the three default site collection created by the system, it is not feasible to do that within Office 365 Small Business subscription.
For “service settings pages” and other issues, we need more detailed information about what service or settings you want for managing your SharePoint Online. You may capture a screenshot to help us understanding your requirement. You can upload screenshots by clicking Use rich formatting > the first Insert/Edit Media icon.
As you encounter some issues managing SharePoint Online sites, I recommend you referring to the articles below for help：
https://support.office.com/en-US/article/SharePoint-Online-Planning-Guide-for-Office-365-Small-Business-A496EEEB-F9CE-40E3-AA5D-932CB268BADC(If you are using Office 365 for Small Business)
https://support.office.com/en-US/article/SharePoint-Online-Planning-Guide-for-Office-365-for-business-d5089cdf-3fd2-4230-acbd-20ecda2f9bb8 (If you are using other Office 365 Business plans)
If you have any concerns about Office 365 for Business online services, please let us know.
Regards,
Ryan
I feel like I haven't gotten a straight answer from GoDaddy on this.
I received an email that says my email accounts will be suspended unless I pay them for "Microsoft 365 Email Essentials Basic".
I did the "GoDaddy Workplace changeover" thing about 3 months ago, with no problems.
I know "GoDaddy is evil" and will most likely be going to another vendor if this MS 365 thing is true.