I’m going to do a series of blog posts on the differences between the plan offerings in Office 365. I’ll update all the previous posts as I complete future articles. The first one will be on the differences in the Lync Plans
Product
1 – Lync
2 – SharePoint
3 – Exchange
4 – Enterprise Suites
5 – Small Business Suite
6 – Office Web Apps
7 – Office 2010 Professional Plus
8 – Kiosk Suites
Feature |
Lync Online |
Lync Online |
Instant messaging (IM) and presence |
Yes |
Yes |
Lync-to-Lync audio/video calling (1-to-1) |
Yes |
Yes |
Lync federation (IM/presence/audio/video) |
Yes |
Yes |
Click-to-communicate in Office |
Yes |
Yes |
Authenticated attendee in Lync meetings* |
Yes |
Yes |
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® |
Yes |
Yes |
Online Meetings |
No |
Yes (up to 250 attendees) |
Initiate ad-hoc and scheduled online meetings |
No |
Yes |
Initiate multiparty (3 or more users) Lync audio/video sessions |
No |
Yes |
Initiate interactive data sharing (screen/application/whiteboard) |
No |
Yes |
Interop with third-party dial-in audio conferencing services |
No |
Yes |
Rights to Lync Server CALs |
Lync Standard CAL |
Lync Enterprise CAL |
Price (A$/user/month) |
A$3.20/user/month |
A$10.20/user/month |
* Enterprise Suite E1 includes Lync Plan 2
* Enterprise Suite E2 includes Lync Plan 2
* Enterprise Suite E3 includes Lync Plan 2
* Enterprise Suite E4 includes Lync Plan 2
* Small Business Suite includes Lync Plan 2