Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Franz — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:18:05 GMT

Do any of you experience issues viewing the GAL in Outlook 2011? Are there any specific settings you need to input to view this or do you need ADFS?

Thanks!

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Stephen — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:22:29 GMT

I had troubles connecting to Lync from the Mac but after punching in the internal and external server names provided above it into Lync's Advanced Properties dialog box it worked perfectly.

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Lawdawg — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:19:50 GMT

I was able to download the client from the link (no pun intended) below.

g.microsoftonline.com/.../638

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Steve — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:53:50 GMT

I have a purchased copy of Office 2011 for the Mac, and the Office365 E3 plan. Office365 advertises Lync as one of the benefits it offers. HOWEVER, I don't have Lync, as it was not included in MS Office 2011, and I cannot find it available as a download.

How are we supposed to get it? I tried downloading the update version, but because it cannot find a previous version installed, it won't install.

Neil - can you help? Any recommendations???

I have contacted support, and one of the things they did was refer me to this link!!!!

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Roman — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:48:54 GMT

Mike,

You do NOT get a license for Office:Mac 2011 with Office 365, you only get a license for the Windows client.

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Mike — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:40:00 GMT

Can someone please confirm whether the E3 plan on O365 includes a license of Office 2011 for Mac? You get Office 2010 for Windows, but are Mac users out of luck?

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Neil Johnson [MSFT] — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:24:58 GMT

I would urge everyone who is struggling with this to contact support. They are aware that there is an issue, however I spoke with the Lync 2011 engineering team yesterday and they have confirmed that Lync 2011 should work against Office 365. At this time the support teams are working with engineering to try to understand why some people (its not just me!) are able to connect, while others, although seemingly following the same process are unable to connect. Hopefully it will be resolved swiftly...

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

DJP — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:37:06 GMT

Lync for Mac 2011 will not connect to lync online. Is there something I'm missing?

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

Lync 2011 is NOT 365 compatible — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:53:24 GMT

I called 365 support today on this. I was told the official word is Lync 2011 for Mac does NOT work with 365. They are aware that web sites and product documentations state that it does, but it does not. They said they were working on this but could not tell me when something would be released. They indicated it might be a separate client.

This feels like a bait and switch on customers who were promised this service, not communicated that it would not work, and not being given an ETA on availability.

How the author of this blog was able to connect and states he knows others who are is confusing at best. I'd like to understand if this is some kind of pre-release software or if indeed its on prem Lync that is being used.

re: Office 365–With Mac OS X Lion, Microsoft Office 2011 and Lync 2011 for Mac

bradrel — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:50:21 GMT

This is supposed to work, or not supposed to work?

community.office365.com/.../12853.aspx