Hi:
I am external consultant for my client and need to access their Sharepoint. They have given me all permissions and I have access but am limited to what I can do. I use a MacBook and have Home Office 2010 installed. Do I need to get Office 2013 or Office 365 to fully utilize my Client’s Sharepoint files?
Thank you for your help.
Personally, I really think O365 is a great platform and if you get an account with the free SharePoint site, it is yours for whatever you want and internet facing to show off.
Look at the different options and to me, the Small Business Premium is a super deal. I just haven’t gotten my wife on board to let me get my own yet. You not only get the full office suite, but all the O365 features and SharePoint.
In addition, if all you need is an O365 account to be able to connect to their documents properly in the future, you’d be all set with your own. I certainly can’t make the call for you, but you most certainly can hit up the free trial of it and see what you think.
Christopher
Thank you Christopher. The client has since told me they are on Office 2010 and are setting me up to connect to their VDI. The upside is they say it will work, the downsides…it will take them a few days and I will only be able to use it as long as I am consulting to them.
So are you saying if I get O365 I can access their Sharepoint (on office 2010) AND be free to use Sharepoint on an ongoing basis? I am on my won and will have to pay the yearly subscription. Do you think it is worth it?
Would love your input.
Thanks so much for your help.
Okay, so limited poking on my behalf. I realize I have an O365 account because of where I work so when I hit a SharePoint document and want to open it in Office on the Mac, it asks me to sign in which I can easily do and it allows me access to the document within Office Mac 2011. I know you could get a trial of O365 for 30 days for yourself to at least get through this patch, but moving forward, it might make good sense as a consultant to have an O365 account of your own (assuming your are solo or your company won’t pony up for it) especially since you use a Mac.
Worst case, you end up with your own O365 and your own online SharePoint instance to wow existing and potential clients. 🙂
Oh I have my own online sharepoint sites to connect to. I wouldn’t dream of trying to connect to the ones you are. 🙂
What you describe sounds like what I ran into last night with something very similar where I couldn’t copy/paste because the page didn’t open in Internet Explorer and that might be the crux of the issue for you. Without IE, there are some things you cannot do in relation to those online MS docs.
I’m sure others will chime in with their experiences once they wipe the crusties from their eyes this fine Friday morning. I’ll fiddle on my end when I get some time and see what I can do to help. 🙂
