Office 365 for enterprise: Part 3 - Anywhere Access

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Bernie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:49:16 GMT

Downloaded 365 but no Visio or Project? What is going on with that?

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:48:57 GMT

Each SharePoint site has a corresponding mobile site that can be accessed through a browser. Just add ?Mobile=1 to the end of the URL. A quick search returned these two sites that talk about this specifically. sharepointmagazine.net/.../microsoft-sharepoint-on-the-iphone blah.winsmarts.com/2010-1-SharePoint_2010_looks_hot_on_an_iPhone.aspx

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Pravin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:47:45 GMT

Dear MSFT,

Do you know of any specifically supported iPhone apps that can connect to Sharepoint 365? If so could you advise. could you also advise if the 365 sharepoint site needs to be set up in a special way and if the url for access is the same.

Regards.

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:47:29 GMT

Have you seen this article Curt? help.outlook.com/.../dd362301.aspx. The iPhone is fully supported by Exchange Online, not sure what your problem is. Hard to tell without looking at your setup. Couple of things to check. Is the inbox set to be synchronized? Does the device show up on OWA under Mobile Devices?

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curt.purdy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:47:01 GMT

A question on connecting a phone. I added my 365 account, it connected to the server and verified the password. But when I send an email, it shows up under Outlook, both desktop and on-line, but not on the iPhone4. Any suggestions?

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Allen Filush — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:46:02 GMT

@Todd: THis answer is based on my research on Bing, not on pure product knowledge. I'll contact the SharePoint folks to confirm though.

Office 365 supports the Safari browser, version 4.x. As you say in your post, I would expect since the iPad runs an abbreviated Safari browser, that you will have most of the functionality, although some things (like editing as you mentioned) might not work. I do not have a list of what does and does not work.

A simple search finds these two results:

1) Apparently there is an app for that: currents.michaelsampson.net/.../sharepoint-2010-on-the-ipad.html

2) THis video shows SharePoint 2010 in use with the iPad http://vimeo.com/10690956

@Alistair: Not exactly. Office 365 for small business doesn't come with Office Pro Plus but still provides many of the benefits (hosted email, SharePoint, Lync), while some Office 365 for enterprises SKUs come with Office Pro Plus. Having both together will add even more capabilities and productivity scenarios.

@Janet: Your purchasing address must be in the countries that are specified as hacing access to Office 365. And you will be able to access Office 365 from anywhere with an internet connection, regardless of whether that place has the ability to purchase the service from us.

@Dennis Vlasich: Thanks for the comment Dennis. I would say first that with Office 365, Exchange Online (formerly OWA) has been redone to be much more feature comparable to having Exchange synced with Outlook 2010. Secondly and on that point, Exchange Online in Office 365 can by synced to the desktop Outlook client, so to your end users, it should't be any differnt than what they have today.

I think these Service Descriptions documents can help you with your feature comparisons.

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

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Dennis Vlasich — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:44 GMT

We have a Microsoft EA agreement but only have Office 2007 installed on our 500+ workstations. It is possible that the majority of our users do not need the robust functionality of the desktop Office version, but in our experimenting with OWA as an option to Outlook, we found the deficiencies to be too significant to make OWA a practical alternative for our Outlook users. Is there a published list of feature comparisons for the features in Office 365 and Office 2010?

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Janet — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:30 GMT

There is a list of 39 countries where Office 365 will be available yet this post talks about it being available anywhere. Does that mean the administrator must be located in one of those countries but that users can be located anywhere?

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Alistair — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:15 GMT

Silly question i'm sure but I take it the clients must have Office 2010 Pro installed to make use of Office 365?

Thanks

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Todd — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:00 GMT

My company is currently a full BPOS customer. Our sales team around the country uses iPads. With Office365 will they be able to open and edit Word, Excel, Powerpoint from a browser on the iPad? If so, will they be able to save files up to a WebDav server instead of online repository only? I've tried using officelive.com with iPad, but it doesn't work.

My BPOS sales person gave me access to his Office365 Sharepoint server. I was able to open Word and Excel docs from my iPad from Sharepoint, but I couldn't edit them. Keyboard input would not work.