Continuing with our theme of Microsoft and Mac OS integration, we want to talk a little bit about Microsoft
Office, specifically Office three sixty five on Mac and iOS.
So one of the first things I'll point out is that if I go into the App Store, most recently, Microsoft
has just added.
All of a three sixty five to the App Store, so this gives you word Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook right
here available through the App Store and also through the volume purchase program as well, because
all of these are inat purchases or require an office, three sixty five subscription, they can be freely
installed on your devices.
I also believe, yes, one note and one driver also included in the bundle, just looking at the bundle
here.
So if you're a system administrator as well, you may also want to pick up a copy of Microsoft from
my desktop 10.
I use this myself to administer Windows servers, and I find that to be extremely helpful.
So I do not have to have a separate PC just for remote control and accessing various windows, workstations
or servers in my environment.
Also included, if you're if you're using Office 365 for business, you'll have one drive for business
available to you and your users, as well as Skype for business.
So, again, these are just things that help bridge the gap between the Mac and Windows clients on your
networks so that you can provide easy file sharing between your various users as well as, you know,
good secure one drive for business, file synchronization and backup, as well as communication via
Skype.
In addition, if you do not want to purchase Microsoft Office for your Macs, but you still want your
Mac users to be able to use Microsoft Exchange calendaring and other things that are featured in Outlook,
you can still do that because Apple has integrated exchange support directly into the operating system
so we can go into system preferences, Internet accounts, and you'll see we have exchange rate up here
next to iCloud, Google, Yahoo and AOL.
So configuring a change account is as simple as adding plus choosing exchange, filling out the necessary
information, and then making sure that mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, which is also tasks
and outlook and notes are all listed and turned on.
That will allow you to use male contacts, calendars, reminders and notes instead of the outlook tabs
for male and contacts and calendars and so forth.
As far as Microsoft goes on the iPad, it's even better.
So when you're looking at iOS, you can see that there's a ton of Microsoft applications available for
both iPhone and iPad.
On my iPad here, I've gotten only one note, the entire office, three sixty five suite, including
Outlook.
I also have Microsoft teams, SharePoint, one drive Skype for business, Microsoft Edge.
I have office lens for scanning in and taking pictures of receipt's or other documents.
I also have my remote desktop client and I can view video files that are sent to me.
My only complaint is I can't edit the Visio documents.
Other than that.
This is a very full featured, very nice suite of applications that work very nicely with my Windows
machine, with my Mac and now my iPad and iPhone.
You're back here like like Mako's.
If you do not want to maintain the Microsoft Office, three sixty five package for your iPads and iPhones,
you do still have the option.
Under passwords and accounts to configure and exchange server, as I've done here.
So you can use this exchange server as well to do male contacts, calendars, reminders, tasks and
notes from exchange, so your Mac and your iPhone and iPad users can have full access via active sync
to all of the exchange services that you're male or obviously sixty five or provide.
One thing I will also note up in the top left hand corner, you'll notice that this iPad is supervised
and managed by my organization.
So once I enable active sync on this device by adding that exchange account, I'm automatically managed
with through the office through sixty five active sync rules and settings that my organization has applied
to my devices, which means I can do some of the things you would see in the MDM, like a remote wipe
or a remote device lock if the device becomes lost.
It also enforces various security features, like how long the screen will stay on before it gets disconnected
or goes to sleep can also set whether it requires a password to unlock and how long that password needs
to be.
So very nice features just built in to iOS here for working along with Microsoft networks.