I tried to connect to my email via Outlook Web App (OWA) using Android and iOS, so here I am sharing with you my story.

Using the Email app in a Samsung Galaxy S5 can be quite intimidating. After entering the username and domain, the app warns me that I need to first give it permission to delete the contents of my smartphone, if ever the Exchange Server tells it to.

Yikes! So I just canceled the configuration of the Email app. I then tried OWA (Android).

Unfortunately, we were unable to connect to the email server. In short, we weren’t able to configure the app properly.

On the iPhone (iOS), it was easy to set-up the Mail app. We just chose Exchange, and entered the needed information.

I wonder why working with an Exchange email address is so much easier in iOS than in Android. Perhaps we need to research more.

[ First posted on 02/18/2015 by Manuel Viloria ]

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Office 365 Business Premium Subscribed a few days ago to the Office 365 Business Premium monthly subscription service to see how great it is.

The login page is https://portal.office.com and the email address looks something like:

name@preferreddomain.onmicrosoft.com

I installed MS Office 2013 on a PC, and when I tried running MS Word 2013 the program kept closing after just a few seconds. The same thing happened with MS Excel 2013 – some kind of abnormal crash after just a few seconds.

The solution

1. Run MS Word in safe mode – Click on the Windows Start button, then in the “Search programs and files” rectangle type in the following: winword /safe

2. Next, click on File , and then on Options (you’ll find it on the left side, a few inches above the bottom of the screen.

3. Click on “Add-ins” (on the left side of the screen)

4. Click on the dropdown list beside “Manage” and choose “COM Add-ins”, then click on the “Go” button.

5. Uncheck the box of a third-party Addin. Just uncheck ONE box first.

6. Click on OK.

7. Exit MS Word, then run it the normal way (without the /safe part).

8. See if MS Word crashes unexpectedly, or if it continues to run. (For MS Excel 2013, type this in the “Search programs and files” box: excel /safe) So there, Word and Excel and working well with the PC desktop. We’ll be trying out OneDrive in the coming days. The monthly subscription to Office 365 Business Premium is US$15.

[ First posted on 02/03/2015 by Manuel Viloria ]

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