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Many of the customers I work with are currently making their way through an Office 365 technical pilot that needs to include Mac OS X machines as well as various versions of Windows. The Windows stuff seems fairly well documented and since we now have a GA release of Lync 2011 for Mac OS X I thought I would write a post about using OS X with Office 365…
Note: Most of this is documented on the following page, however it does not include Lync or any screenshots..
- http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh180727.aspx
Software requirements for Mac OS X and Office 365
There are some things that you need to know before rushing out to connect your Max OS X machines to Office 365. Firstly you will need a version of Outlook that supports Exchange Web Services (EWS). Older versions of Outlook for Mac used WebDAV which is not provided in Exchange Server 2010 and therefore is also not available in Office 365. Plus there are some minimum versions of Mac OS X and Browsers that are supported…
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1+
- Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 (v14.0.1)
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 12.2.9+
- Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition
- Mac OS X 10.5.8+
- Safari 4 or 5
- Firefox 3.5 or 4
- Chrome 3
Note: If you are using an internal CA for any of your Exchange or ADFS servers you must import the root CA certificate onto your Mac before working through these steps…
For the purposes of this article I will concentrate on Office 2011 since it represents the best end user experience and it is also the version I have the most experience with (and happen to have handy!).
Connecting to Office 365 Web Portal
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OK, so this bit isn't very exciting however it is always my first step since it proves that my Office 365 account credentials are good and that the Mac has connectivity to the Office 365 service and ADFS.
- Open your browser (In this example I am using Safari 5)
- Navigate to https://portal.microsoftonline.com
- Login with your Office 365 user credentials
- Click on the Outlook link to connect to Outlook Web Access
- Select the Language and Time Zone preferences (if prompted)
Assuming everything went well, you should now be looking at your Office 365 users Outlook Web Access page via OS X Safari! For some of my customers this is actually “good enough”, however for the large majority they need the rich experience provided by Outlook and Lync on their Mac… so we need to continue on
Connecting Outlook 2011 for Mac to Office 365
Ok, so we have already connected to OWA via Safari so the next thing to do is configure Outlook. When you start Outlook for Mac 2011 the first thing it will ask you to do is to Add Account…
- Click the checkbox to make Outlook the default application for e-mail, calendar and contacts then click Add Account
- Once the Add an Account page is displayed, click on Exchange Account
- Fill in your account details on the Exchange Account Information Page, ensure that Configure Automatically is checked and then click on Add Account
- Outlook will warn you that your AutoDiscover request has been redirected to a different server
- Ensure that the Always use my response for this server checkbox is checked and click on Allow
- At this point Outlook will reconfigure itself to connect to your Office 365 mailbox by using the data from AutoDiscover
- I typically also change the Account Description on the next page to show that it is an Office 365 Account
- Close the Accounts Window and Outlook should show as connected and begin synchronising your mailbox content…
Connecting Lync 2011 for Mac to Office 365
NOTE: Lync 2011 requires an update to connect to Office 365 which is provided here…
I have to admit that despite being a Microsoft Employee I am also a Mac user (occasionally anyway) and for me Lync was the missing piece of the puzzle for making a Mac a usable experience.
Anyway, enough of that lets move on to connecting Lync…
- Start Lync for Mac 2011
- The first thing that Lync will ask is to set it as the default application for presence – if you want presence information then select Use Lync
- The next screen will be the Lync for Mac 2011 login screen
- Click on the Advanced icon at the bottom
- Click on the Advanced button at the bottom of the Lync client
- Set Internal Server name to sipdir.online.lync.com:443
- Set External Server name to sipdir.online.lync.com:443
- Click OK
- Enter your login account details and password
- Check the Remember my password checkbox and click Sign In
- If everything went to plan, you should now see your Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 client open up and show as connected!
- I suspect this isn't actually that exciting to everyone, but I (and some of my customers) have been waiting for nearly a year to get this far!
The screenshot below shows my OS X Lion desktop connected to Microsoft Office 365 via a federated Active Directory account… and who says Microsoft and Apple cant work together!
Conclusion
As a regular Mac and Windows user it is vital to me that my systems are able to collaborate and share data effectively. It is also vital that I am able to communicate and collaborate effectively with my colleagues running Windows or Mac machines. I have to say that prior to having Lync my Mac experience was definitely lacking… however now I can connect Outlook and Lync to Office 365 I am able to function just as effectively on my Mac as I am on my Windows 7 machine. Being able to join conference calls, share my desktop etc even when I am on my Mac is a huge improvement to my productivity…
Having worked with a few customers who have a Mac OS X community to support I have to say that connecting them to Office 365 has been relatively painless… in fact it is arguably easier to connect a Mac running Office 2011 to Office 365 than Windows; largely since OS X doesn't require any patch updates or the Windows Live Sign In Assistant to connect reliably. The biggest problem area that I have seen is that organisations who have chosen to use their internal CA to issue certificates for their internal Exchange and ADFS services, must remember to import the root CA certificate on every new Mac that is deployed… failure to do this leaves the machine unable to authenticate to ADFS and AutoDiscover failing to configure Outlook.
Overall though I have to say that this is great work from both the Office 365 and Office 2011 for Mac teams…!
Today, Outlook 2016 for Mac is adding support for Google Calendar and Contacts—available first to our Office Insider Fast community. We’re excited to be delivering on these highly-requested features for Mac users and matching our Outlook apps for iOS and Android, providing Google Accounts with a more powerful way to stay in control of the day ahead.
While today marks the beginning of this rollout, we need your help to test drive and provide feedback on the experience. We will be closely managing the rollout to Insiders, expanding availability over the next several weeks, before becoming broadly available to Office 365 customers later this year.
Note: These improvements will become available to those who have Office 365 plans that include Office applications.
More than just email
Outlook for Mac has long supported connecting to and managing your Gmail. With these updates, Outlook will now also sync your Google Calendars and Contacts. The experience will be very similar to what you are familiar with in Outlook today, with support for all the core actions—such as add, delete, edit time and location. All changes will update back and forth with Gmail or Outlook for iOS and Android, so everything is in sync across all your devices.
Bringing the best features of Outlook to your Gmail account
Up to now, many of Outlook’s best and most advanced email features have only been available to those with an Outlook.com, Office 365 or Exchange email address. With these updates, you will also be able to take advantage of several of Outlook’s advanced features with your Gmail account, including Focused Inbox and richer experiences for travel reservations and package deliveries. Additional advanced features will become available as we roll these updates out more broadly.
How to get started
Outlook 2016 for Mac users who are part of the Office Insider Fast program will be the first to try this new feature. To become an Insider, simply open up Outlook, click Help > Check for Updates and then follow the directions found here.
Not all Insiders will see the new Google Account experience right away. We will closely monitor feedback and expand the rollout over the next few weeks. Outlook will notify you when this feature becomes available, with a prompt asking you to add your Google Account. If you have an existing Google Account connected to Outlook, you can remove it after setting up the new experience.
If you ignore the initial prompt, you can add a Google Account at a later time by going to Tools > Accounts.
We are still fine-tuning the Google Account experience in Outlook for Mac and will provide regular updates to Insiders before releasing the features more broadly. You can help us improve the experience by providing feedback and identifying bugs by going to Help > Contact Support. See this list of known issues.
Got a suggestion for how to improve Outlook for Mac? Please suggest and vote on future feature ideas on our Outlook for Mac UserVoice page.
—The Outlook team
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