SkyDrive Cloud Services

[franton]

Anyone have any experience managing this as part of Office 365?

[jeremy_spolande]

Shortcut to URL in people dock only for us so far, there is an app in the mac store for skydrive but not skydrive pro.

[mks007]

Microsoft has no plans for Sky Drive Pro as yet, we are still waiting so we can use Office 365 but Microsoft are way behind on office products for mac.

[mks007]

Microsoft has no plans for Sky Drive Pro as yet, we are still waiting so we can use Office 365 but Microsoft are way behind on office products for mac.

[bentoms]

Microsoft really need to clarify Skydrive.

You also have Skydrive available in SharePoint 2013... But again no app & it isn't the same as the Office365 or personal options.

[franton]

What a pain. The general trend in UK academic circles is to start outsourcing email and related services, some going for Google and others (like where I am) going for Office 365 and SkyDrive.

Looks like it's going to be great for Windows and lacklustre on OS X.

[jeremy_spolande]

Pretty sure the next version of office for mac will have this included to some extent in a few months but until it actually arrives...

[emily]

You can use the Microsoft Document Connection app that is a part of the Office 2011 suite to connect to a SkyDrive Pro account.

- Have a user log into their sharepoint.com site (ours is just https://ourcompany.sharepoint.com)
- Once logged in, click on SkyDrive in the top menu
- Copy the URL of the personal SkyDrive space from the browser bar and paste it into a sticky note or TextEdit doc to use later
- Go to the Finder, open Applications, and look for Microsoft Document Connection in the Office 2011 folder
- Once the app is open, click on Add Location and select Connect to a SharePoint site
- Grab the Sharepoint URL (saved above) and paste it into the Address blank
- This should redirect to your organization's Office 365 login page, have them log in with their credentials (it will prompt twice)
- They'll then be connected to their Documents folder and be able to use SkyDrive "natively" on their Mac, rather than relying on a web interface

This is working pretty well for us, though not ideal or all that streamlined, of course.