This is great new site we just launched showing all the new features and upcoming features of Office 365 listed here:
Show features launched, rolling out, and in development (upcoming features) in your tenant.
Drilldown descriptions of the feature.
Visit the Office 365 roadmap site here.
I have many education customers deploying Office 365 this summer while school is out. I was asked what we have to prepare their end users for training, items to create buzz (posters, flyers, emails), how to prepare help desk, etc. The good news is we just provided some new adoption kits for your end users:
Quickstart to Office 365 including:
poster for OneDrive for Business (you can customize to your own campus/district needs)
help desk guide
Office 365 buzz videos
Grab it here.
Office 365 Change Management Guide including:
Office 365 project rollout workbook
Change management and Office 365 Rollout guide
Grab it here.
Office 365 Readiness and Adoption Kit Intranet Web site
This is a pre-bundled web site you can deploy on your intranet which contains all of the materials above in a nice neat web site package.
Grab the Office 365 Readiness and Adoption kit for your Intranet here.
End user training links
Office 365 learning center
Visit it here.
Office 365 Education guides with education related scenarios and content:
Visit this excellent Office 365 Education learning site here with guides, etc.
See my other blog post here on other end user training options.
I get asked a lot of questions about OneDrive for Business from customers so I have put together a quick FAQ to help:
How many OneDrives are there? I see one in Windows 8 and then I see one with Office 365 Education. I also see SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro. What are the differences?
There are two OneDrive offerings available. One is our consumer OneDrive, formerly known as SkyDrive, which comes with 7GB of free storage and is catered towards personal storage use. The other offering comes with Office 365 and is called OneDrive for Business, formerly known as SkyDrive Pro, which requires a valid Office 365 login to leverage. The default storage is now 1TB for OneDrive for Business.
Here is a matrix with the differences:
Can I use the OneDrive consumer sync technology with OneDrive for Business?
No, the OneDrive sync integration with Mac, Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 does not sync to OneDrive for Business. There are different folder sync technologies required specifically for OneDrive for Business and currently we only have Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 folder sync clients. Mac client is slated for later this year.
Grab all the OneDrive and OneDrive for Business sync clients here.
Can I use the OneDrive consumer mobile apps with OneDrive for Business?
No, these are also separate mobile and tablet apps for OneDrive for Business.
To download those apps on for tablet, Android, iOS visit here.
Can I have both OneDrive consumer and OneDrive for Business installed on the same computer?
Yes, you can have both sync clients installed and there is no collision between the two sync technologies.
both OneDrive sync technologies installed
What are the ways I can get the OneDrive for Business sync client?
There are two ways to obtain the OneDrive for Business sync client:
1) It is automatically installed with the following Office 2013 installations:
2) If you do not have Office Professional Plus 2013 installed via one of the versions above, you can download a separate OneDrive for Business client with the download links above for Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7.
See herefor more manual installation steps of OneDrive for Business if needed.
Can I setup OneDrive for Business Sync automatically for users?
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this currently. The only current method is to have the end users click ‘Sync’ inside of OneDrive for Business. See here for more directions.
Can I map a drive to OneDrive for Business?
Currently, there are methods I have heard of however they have mixed results with this. See here and here for steps. There is also new unsupported code available to help with mapping a drive to OneDrive for Business via a login script. See here. One example I have seen work from a command line is (replace tenant with your tenant name) and you must make sure the WebDAV service is running:
Net use w: \\tenant-my.sharepoint.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\Personal\user_domain_com/documents /PERSISTENT:yes
Can I preprovision OneDrive for Business so my endusers don’t have to wait to use on first time use?
Yes, there is a way to preprovision OneDrive for Business using the new CSOM API. See sample code here and here.
Can I redirect my local folders (\documents, \pictures, etc) via Group Policy to OneDrive for Business?
Yes, there is a way to do this using environment variable mappings. Please see steps here.
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