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A company that I do work for is having problems with their emails on a South African server. A local company suggested moving to Office 365.<br />
I already have them on Azure where they use ASP.net web apps as well as a SQL database on a daily basis. Is there an easier more cost effective<br />
way to sort out their emailing issues using Azure or some other more cost effective way.
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Hi

A company that I do work for is having problems with their emails on a South African server. A local company suggested moving to Office 365.
I already have them on Azure where they use ASP.net web apps as well as a SQL database on a daily basis. Is there an easier more cost effective
way to sort out their emailing issues using Azure or some other more cost effective way.

Azure vs Office 365 for company emails

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.

Microsoft Office

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.