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Office 365 Information and Resources


Office 365 Getting Started
Overview:
  • General Overview | video 
  • Part 1: Connecting with people and information in new ways | video  
  • Part 2: Scheduling and running meetings with ease | video  
  • Part 3: Collaborating on documents and sharing business information | video
Tour for Users:
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to Office 365 | video 
  • Chapter 2: Email and more | video 
  • Chapter 3: Collaborate with Team Sites | video 
  • Chapter 4: Microsoft Office and Office Web Apps | video 
  • Chapter 5: Communicate now with Lync | video
Tour for Administrators:
  • Office 365 for Enterprises: The Admin Experience | video

 Office 365 Information and Resources
Portal:
Provides a “one-stop-shop” access to the Office 365 features (manage your profile, change your password, download and install required components, navigate to OWA via Outlook link, navigate to SharePoint via Team Site link).

Exchange Online:
Exchange Online offers cloud-based email, calendar, and contacts. With Exchange Online, you run your email on our globally-redundant servers, protected by built-in antivirus and anti-spam filters and backed by unlimited, IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, seven days a week in your local language.

SharePoint Online:
Keep teams in sync. SharePoint Online gives you a central place to share documents and information. Designed to work with familiar Office applications, SharePoint lets you work together on proposals and projects in real-time because you have access to the documents and information you need from virtually anywhere.
  • SharePoint Online URL | (https://[something].sharepoint.com - depends on your domain) 
  • Getting started with SharePoint Online | Online Help
  • Basic tasks in SharePoint Online | Online Help

Lync Online:
Lync Online is a next-generation cloud communications service that connects people in new ways from anywhere by using presence, instant messaging, PC-to-PC calling, and rich online meetings with audio, video, and web conferencing.

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