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Chris Parker's avatar
Chris Parker
Iron Contributor
Dec 20, 2016

How could Exchange Online increase mboxes by 50GB but Dynamics CRM still charges $9.99 per 1GB?!

This is outrageous.
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TonyRedmond's avatar
TonyRedmond
MVP
Dec 21, 2016

But seriously, it all comes down to commerical need and marketing. Dynamics competes against Salesforce. How much do they charge to hold data? Exchange Online competes against Gmail/G Suite, so the mailboxes have to be larger. Exchange Online also needs large mailboxes to convince customers to move all the data they have in PSTs into a place where that data is discoverable and compliant... and so on...  This is an apples to oranges comparison.

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Dec 22, 2016
Agree, but I still think the extra storage cost for Dynamics CRM is too expensive and it's quite easy to reach the default storage that I believe is 5 GB only....
  • Alan Smith's avatar
    Alan Smith
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 22, 2016

    I agree as well that the extra storage charges for Dynamics CRM seem high. I'm waiting to see how this all sorts out with Dynamics 365 new plans, etc. I'm still uncertain how our existing plans and usage will translate. 

     

    But a big hello to TonyRedmond! I've been gladly hearing your advice for 20 years or so now. Came from a Banyan Systems networking world into early Exchange for >10,000 users.

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      TonyRedmond
      MVP
      Dec 23, 2016

      Hi back to Alan Smith - 20 years is too long to be giving advice. It's time for me to take some...