Using Office 365 on iPad

Steps:

1. Download the 7 office apps from the app store (be sure to download 2013 versions)
2. Login using your Bishops email address.
3. Enter special login information for OWA, OneDrive, and Lync

1. Go into the app store 

Download all of the following 7 Microsoft programs:

(You may want to put them into a folder)

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• OneNote
• Word
• Lync 2013
• OWA (Outlook Web App)
• OneDrive (*must be business version)

 

 

2. For most Office 365 apps you simply need to sign in using your Bishops email address.

At some point you may need to select a work account rather than a ‘Microsoft account’

3. The rest of the apps require other additional information:

Lync: Show advanced options and enter email address

Click HTTP Proxy, and enter domain, username as such:

OWA:

This message will pop up :

- Click advanced

Fill in the information as so:

• User name must be your email address as well.
• Do not enter in anything for ‘Domain’
• ’Server’ must be: outlook.office365.com

An example is shown on the next page:

OneDrive:

Firstly make sure that you downloaded OneDrive for business and not the other version of OneDrive

Next you need to click ‘Show Advanced Options’ and then type your password and the following as the ‘SharePoint Server URL’: https://diocesancollege.sharepoint.com

Example:

That’s it! Enjoy Office 365 for iPad – it’s likely to be more useful than one might expect!