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A while ago a colleague mailed a file for which I had to write a macro to generate worksheets in an Excel file. While working on it, also he made some changes to the files. Then I must use some tricks to merge his changes and my macro together. I had some minor issues with him.

A few days ago my boss asks me to follow a course about Office 365 Home & Business and SharePoint is one of the things that I will learn as well (I actually already am learning it). It enables to avoid problems as I described above. I want to move my work from the school computer network to SharePoint and share my documents to my colleagues - and - as far as useful - with my boss.

It will happen more often that I and other colleagues want or have to work on one Word document or an Excel worksheet.

My future could be in Office 365 in the long run (more using my learning and other skills), but I can do my computer related work more efficiently than I have done until now. I hope my colleagues will be convinced to use it like I plan to do.

Who of you uses Office 365 as well? I use Office 365 Home at home (duh, as the word says) and on my smartphone, and Office 365 Home & Business mainly at work and on my smartphone. I have downloaded and installed both versions on my smartphone.

My current employers are often bound by contracts as to what software they can use, but I and a few others are trying to at least get a foot in the door regarding certain cloud services. Either Azure or AWS might be our first attempt, but Office 365 may be another that we haven't looked at.

We use Office 365 at work, although I confess I've not moved very far beyond Sharepoint, Word, PPT, and Excel, and rarely, OneDrive. The rest of my team has been trying to use Filemaker for project tracking and so far it's been a very frustrating experience. I've been trying to learn more about O365 to see if it might be better for tracking really big, complicated projects like web site development or proposals, which have a lot of review meetings, authors, documents, and milestones.

Have you used any of the other modules like Delve, Sway, or OneNote?

I use Delve pretty often, more than my other colleagues likely do. There are some accessibility problems: other colleagues have to sign in before they can look at my documents. I agree that that is a problem, and I told them that I will try to sort that out in April, when I will have a course about Office 365.

I am less familiar with other components as Sway and OneNote. Other things are Yammer (which looks like Facebook but - I think - it is not as familiar as Facebook), Admin (that is application management: adding, deleting users, changing user details).

OneNote may be useful, but I also want to have a good task management system (I may underestimate OneNote), because I get various tasks from colleagues and each task has its own details: the task giver, date, why the task is suspended, what the deadline is, etc. Now I use an Excel worksheet for that.

http://blogs.technet.com/mitchelatmicrosoft

I've helped build, operate and support it since the service was called BPOS. I'm glad you like it! It's not perfect, but it's one of the best services we have currently. Azure is worth looking into as well.

If you have any questions about Microsoft technology, let me know.

Also,

Your chances of surviving winter are increased 10x if you use OneNote with OneDrive

It's literally the best application we've released in a long time and flies under the radar.

I use Office 365 and SharePoint at work. Currently I'm working on my second network drive to SharePoint transition. This time it's running much smoother than last time... maybe because the 2013 edition is better and less buggy than 2010, or my last employer was a federal agency that had a tendency to over complicate things. The new version is still a bit buggy when it comes to embedding files, list length limitations, and setting up workflows. Also, it's unfortunate that you still can't streamline authentication and user privileges with AD, like you can with SAP. I digress, it's a good platform and it's much more user friendly than Livelink and Venue.