Office 365

  Good news for the cloud enthusiasts. Microsoft announced on March 14 price cuts to a number of its Office 365 enterprise and academic plans. Microsoft officials explain that due to economies of scale through their data centres and economies of skills with their staff they Read More

This is the question one of my customers asked me this week. Enough to send a chill down the spine of a die-hard Windows advocate? Well fortunately I’m both a Windows and an Apple Mac user so was in a position to advise. The answer is that some of Office 365 works on a Mac. Read More

I was asked if you can use SharePoint Online in an extranet or internet site capacity. The answer is no for internet sites but I have found out that you can invite up to 50 external contacts to your SharePoint Online site free of charge. Here’s how. End-to-end steps to Read More

Office 365 passwords are set to expire every 90 days. The annoyance of this may outweigh the security benefit it brings for some (many?) users. But fear not – it is possible to get rid of the expiry altogether using Windows PowerShell with the Microsoft Online PowerShell Read More

You can do a bunch of stuff on Office 365 with Windows PowerShell. Here’s how to get connected: Install the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant [32-bit | 64-bit] Install the Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell [32-bit | 64-bit] Open PowerShell Read More

It looks like from Microsoft that at the moment the answer is no. Office 365 comes with SharePoint Online, which is Microsoft’s web content management system (CMS). However, there is no public licensing model. I.e. there is no equivalent of FIS (SharePoint For Internet Read More

You can find out by reading through reams of info on Office365.com or you can follow these simple steps… iPhone Settings\Mail, Contacts, Calendars\Add Account\Microsoft Exchange Fill in the fields with Username being your email address and leave Domain blank [If you get a Read More

SharePoint Online provides some basic usage statistics if you browse to the /_layouts/UsageDetails.aspx page. This is limited to 30 days, however, and there are only a few basic reports available. One way to improve this usage reporting is to use an online web analytics solution Read More

A customer asked me what the difference was between Office 365 Plan P1 and Plan E2. They both look very similar in terms of what you get but Plan E2 is £10.50 per user per month and Plan P1 is only £4 per user per month. The answer is that there are some limitations with Plan P1, Read More

I’ve been asked several times by charities about whether they get a discount on Office 365 prices. They typically get a very good discount on normal purchased licenses so the standard pricing for Office 365 isn’t as attractive as it is for other organisations. There Read More