Mobile Apps

• iPad App Testing - Installation and Configuration (Cristy)
  • Started with OneNote - app does not allow me to authenticate either using my Tufts email address or UTLN with my Tufts password. Will continue adding other apps and see what the results are.
• Unable to sign into Office Mobile on Android. It asks for a username and password. Once I enter *@tufts.edu, I am redirected to the ADFS page. At the ADFS page, I enter my tufts UTLN and tufts password but it refreshes back to the initial login page (before ADFS)
  • Works for lraymo02, same device. May be a problem with the AD account.
• Windows Phone (Marc)
  • Windows Phone 7.5 or Windows Phone 8 comes preinstalled with four Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
  • In addition, an OWA client comes preinstalled for setting up a mail account using Outlook.com, an Exchange server, or Office 365.
  • A Windows Phone user can optionally install Lync and SharePoint by downloading them from the portal website. This is done by sending an SMS to the phone and opening the links within the SMS application. The SMS can be sent to a 10-digit US phone number only using the portal website. (Warning: text and data rates may apply). Alternatively, the apps can be downloaded on the Windows Phone by opening a web page to http://www.office.com/business-apps. The SMS simply provides a link to this website. The website filters available apps and provides a clickable link which redirects to the Microsoft store. A Microsoft account is required to sign in, purchase and install the free app.
    • Currently, the link to download and install Lync 2013 is not working and redirects to a web page that is unavailable.(http://015.officeredir.microsoft.com/r/rlidBuyMobileAppLyncWP)
  • Attempting to set up an Office 365 account appears to share the same mail app that would be used for our normal Exchange server or for an Outlook.com account. I removed my Exchange account to attempt the O365 connection. Using outlook.office365.com for the server name does allow me to connect my account using utln@tufts.edu for the username. However, it results in an error (screenshot attached).
• Windows Tablet (RT)
  • Windows RT comes preinstalled with Office 2013 RT and included Word 2013, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, and OneNote 2013. Since only applications from the Windows Store can be installed on a Windows RT device, you cannot install the version of Office that comes with Office 365 (namely, other applications including Access, Publisher, Outlook, Lync, and InfoPath). Using the Office 365 portal, a user can get access to O365 email, work collaboratively with team members and work on documents. The user can also configure Metro apps if they want to use email, calendaring, contacts, or messaging.
  • A link does appear below the Office applications which points users to the Metro versions of OneNote and Lync through the Microsoft Store requiring a Microsoft account to purchase this free software.
• iPhone web email, via Browser (Melanie)
  1. Email page doesn't scale properly (gets cut off). wait, actually it might be the Windows new side-scroll interface. (not a convention on Apple).
  2. Email Search performance is slow, but it might be because of test instance? (getting good Tufts wifi reception)
  3. Email (visual hierarchy): strange choice to make the "sender" much larger than the "email subject". Email subject tends to be first thing we scan.
  4. The spinning icon (at the top of phone) is constantly turning. What will be the toll on battery life? Is it any different than other sites?

Authentication

• Login is inconsistent across many browsers. The ADFS redirect works but after entering Tufts credentials the page hangs or provides an error (attached)
• If you authenticate in Chrome 30 and your session times out, you are repeated redirected to the ADFS page but authentication fails silently (the page refreshes).