Figuring Out Our Teams Needs
(As in, our needs as far as Teams is concerned.) Basically, we run a business operating a network of freelancers. We found Slack super-useful when we first started using it about 5 years ago, but quickly hit a place where we required paid features, and just couldn't justify the several-hundred-dollars-a-month expense of putting all our freelancers on a paid plan (back then there were 40 or so of us, now it's more like 80). We moved to another tool (Ryver) which offered what we needed at a much better price, and have been reasonably happy with it ever since, but have recently started to feel that it might be faltering (support and updates have died off, feature requests have been left undealt with for years etc. etc.), and are now worried that it might fold, which would leave us without a vital tool for our business. As such, we've been looking at alternatives, and Teams seems like it could be a really viable option for us, but at $12.50/user/month for the paid plan, we would only be able to switch to it if either the free version was workable for our needs, or if there might be a way of having only some people on the paid plan and others join as guests. Despite doing a bunch of reading about the tool, I can't quite seem to get a definitive answer on this. For a start, there appears to be some kind of 5 guests per licensed user rule - does this mean that in order to have our entire network of freelancers (around 75 individuals) involved, we'd need to have...14 paid users as part of our Teams setup? And how is that allowance treated if, say, one of those paying members is already a member of another teams organisation elsewhere? Or does none of this matter if we're using the free version? Apologies - as I say, I've tried to unpick this through doing a bit of reading, but things get very soupy when trying to figure out the various subscriptions and versions on offer. Any help massively appreciated!
Need formula on excel to calculate permit fee
Hi, I am trying to create a spread sheet to use for pricing permits. the way pricing works is: Any structure 1000 sqft and under is $25.00 for each 1000 sqft or fraction thereof more it is $12.50 per 1000 sqft ive been trying different ways to do it but I cant figure it out
Blob Storage aggregation across domain / subscriptions to reduce cost --- possible
Block Blob storage has pricing tiers based on TB stored. You receive a discount for each level you achieve. These tiers exist for all Storage Account Type i.e. Blob, General Purpose v1 and v2. I wanted to know if there is a mechanism to "link" tenant domains and or Azure subscriptions to aggregate the total amount of data stored in blob cool such that I could achieve the lower cost spend tiers more quickly. Trying to think of ways to save money. Thank youNew Company to Azure and Citrix
Greetings all, I hope I am posting appropriate questions in the appropriate section -- there is just so much out there. If this isn't the exact space, please kindly direct me to where I should be. I am a new company working with Citrix and Azure and we are fairly new to cloud hosting. I worked with Citrix to get the Azure/Citrix link established and now I am for the most part, up on Azure. I have a couple of questions. 1) My company is currently on Microsoft Action pack. There apparently is a $100 credit each month allocated to us as we grow. Does this credit just eat way per Azure VM usage and then charge a card, and have the cycle repeat each month? 2) With Citrix comes licensing. The Citrix portion is handled by Citrix but I still need RDS licencing. Do / would I go to my distributor, work out a deal, and build a new company RDS license server in Azure? What's this Splock thing I keep hearing about? Something to do with RDS licensing as I use them? 3) Backups. Although Citrix advertises 'their' cloud, the back-end is definitively Azure. My question is, how are VMs backed up? An additional service provided by Azure? For example if I go to a customer and they inquire how VMs are backed up.. what do I tell them? "Azure handles it and not to worry?" -- I'm afraid that's not going to going over too well. Futhermore, if a customer is uncomfortable having Azure maintain their VM files, what alternative are there? 4) As a Microsoft partner, I have to believe there is a pricing list for us versus traditional customer rates. Does anyone know where to find this price sheet?
