Office 365 - Apps, Email, & More
Office 365 will come in a few specific flavors, here is a brief description of the functionality available to subscribers of the service:
- Office 365 is a cloud-based email solution. Your Test account will come with a first.last@tufts.edu format, but you will always need to authenticate to the cloud portal (portal.microsoftonline.com)
- Email will share calendaring and global contact lists, but things like calendar delegation and sharing will have special rules between mailboxes "On-Site" at tufts and those "In the Cloud." From an email address, and mail delivery perspective the average user will be unable to tell the difference between an on-site and cloud-based account.
- Configuration of accounts for sending and receiving email is the primary difference between on-premise and cloud-based email.
- If a cloud account tries to log in on-premise, or an on-premise email account tries to log on in the cloud, the login will fail.
Apps
- Office365 allows individuals to download office productivity apps to their mobile devices, tablets, as well as full office suites on up to five computers
- Members of the Tufts community, once activated and licensed, will be able to visit the microsoft online portal (portal.microsoftonline.com) and perform the following tasks