Office 365 via GoDaddy?
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It definitely wasn't clear to me that going with Godaddy was going to result in these kinds of difficulties. Should O365 be the same, no matter who you purchase it through?
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@Danp said in Office 365 via GoDaddy?:
It definitely wasn't clear to me that going with Godaddy was going to result in these kinds of difficulties. Should O365 be the same, no matter who you purchase it through?
No. With partners or direct you are buying from Microsoft. When you buy through a reseller you are not getting an account with Microsoft so it is very different. If you buy through any partner it is through the partner, not from the partner. So the account is always with Microsoft themselves, hence the protection and uniformity. When you buy through a reseller the account is actually with GoDaddy, not Microsoft, and GoDaddy is providing you the service and Microsoft provides them with a service. So GoDaddy can do anything that they want with what they provide to you. That's why GoDaddy doesn't have the uniform pricing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 via GoDaddy?:
@Carnival-Boy said:
I wouldn't buy through a reseller.
Remember, we are partners, not resellers. You still buy from Microsoft. You can always shut us out. You are in control. We are the "Partners of Record" and only add value, we have no means of subtracting it (we could do nothing and just sit there too, that's always possible.)
Here is where CB pointed out that GD was a reseller and where I pointed out the differences that make partners have safety.
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It's hard to tell people ahead of time that places like GoDaddy are different without it sounding like bashing the competition or spread fear that they will hijack your account if you don't have lots of references of places that it has happened. I had tried to point out that they were a reseller, not a partner, and that they operated differently with different rules and support even from the first post. Sorry that I didn't push forcefully enough to explain the dangers in not getting the account through a partner.
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Godaddy chat --
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@Danp Wow! I know with partners it is pretty easy to migrate from one to another, or to add one if you haven't had one before.
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Anyone familiar with either of these products or know of any others that offer low-cost migration?
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Migrationwiz has been good for email migrations. Never used it to do sharepoint stuff though.
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@coliver said in Office 365 via GoDaddy?:
@Danp Wow! I know with partners it is pretty easy to migrate from one to another, or to add one if you haven't had one before.
That's because you are only changing paperwork, not changing whose system the account is under.
