Is there a way to program cloud backup for specific times on a mac?. Many of the customers I work with are currently making their way through an Office 365 technical pilot that needs to include Mac OS X machines as well as various versions of Windows. The Windows stuff seems fairly well documented and since we now have a GA release of Lync 2011 for Mac OS X I thought I would write a post about using OS X with Office 365 Note: Most of this is documented on the following page, however it does not include Lync or any screenshots. • Software requirements for Mac OS X and Office 365 There are some things that you need to know before rushing out to connect your Max OS X machines to Office 365.

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Firstly you will need a version of Outlook that supports Exchange Web Services (EWS). Older versions of Outlook for Mac used WebDAV which is not provided in Exchange Server 2010 and therefore is also not available in Office 365. From my limited experience it works really well, I have a customer with more than 500 Mac's running Lync 2011 against Office 365. The most common problem that I see with Mac's is with certficates, i.e customer has chosen to use internal CA to provide their ADFS certificate and not installed the root CA certificate chain onto the Mac the other really common problem is where the UPN does not match the SMTP name, this causes a huge amount of end user confusion, remember that if you are using ADFS you need to login with your UPN not your SMTP name (They are not necessarily the same!).

As a test I often try to use a managed account to bypass the ADFS infrastructure, i.e use one of your @.onmicrosoft.com acccounts to test Lync before trying a federated account. If you are really struggling then call support – thats what they are there for 🙂. We don't have ADFS running, so our users are created straight in 365. Still doesn't work, and we're not alone by the sound of it.

Login and email are identical, can log in using Lync 2010 just fine. Tried the.onmicrosoft.com thing as well with no luck. I'm betting there is a bug here. Someone said they were watching network traffic and the Lync 2011 client would start looking at their internal AD then time out.

There is no reason it should be doing that on a cloud based service. Again, Microsoft should have thought about a more open beta like is typical rather than releasing something and creating confusion or forcing us to call support. BTW: some are saying that 365 is not ready for Lync 2011 yet. Again, why would there be a client release if this were the case, and it sure seems to be working for you.

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. 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.