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2. Using Office Desktop Applications
For the best experience with Office 365, a set of required components and updates must be applied to each
workstation. To simplify the installation and maintenance of these components and updates, Microsoft provides an
installable piece of software — called Office desktop setup — at no charge. These updates are required for all
workstations that use rich clients (such as Microsoft Office 2010) and connect to the Microsoft Online Services.
Office desktop setup provides multiple benefits:
Preparing PCs to connect to Office 365 by applying required updates
Configuring Outlook and Microsoft Lync for use with Office 365
See also: Troubleshoot installation issues for Services Connector
3. Microsoft Lync
With Lync, you can exchange instant messages, initiate audio and video webconferences, and see presence
information for your colleagues. You can also set up Lync to enable users to communicate with others outside your
organization who use Office 365 or Windows Live Messenger.
Getting Started with Office 365
Explore the Admin and Home pages
The Office 365 Admin page will help you navigate many of the important administrative functions of the service. The Home
page, available to both admin and nonadmin users, will help you navigate many of the services included in Office 365. Please
familiarize yourself with these pages because they are the starting point for completing many common tasks in the service.
Log on to the Office 365 service, and click on the Admin and Home links at the top of your screen:
Note: If the Outlook and Team Site links are dimmed as shown above, these features are still being configured. Check back or
reload the page in a few minutes. For a complete list of known issues, please view the Release Notes for Office 365 Beta for
small businesses (English).
Verify That You Have Access to Your E-Mail, Team Site and Microsoft Lync
E-mail
Access your new Microsoft Office 365 e-mail inbox in your browser through the Microsoft Outlook Web App, a Web-based
version of Microsoft Office Outlook. In Walkthrough 2 (below), you will learn how to access your Office 365 e-mail through your
Outlook desktop application. All users will have a free noncustom e-mail address (e.g., joe@contoso.onmicrosoft.com).
Customers will have the option to use their existing domain name to create professional e-mail addresses (e.g.,
joe@contoso.com).
1. Click on Inbox on the Home page:
2. You will be prompted to select your language, time zone, and whether you want to use accessibility features.