What apps are available to help me use Office 365 on my iPad?

In addition to being able to connect your Office 365 email account to your iPad, there are several apps available that allow you to utilize your other Office 365 services from your iPad.  Office for iOS – view, create, and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files OneNote – access and update your digital OneNote notebook Skype for Business – communicate with your team members via voice, video, and instant message.…

Do I have to access the files I put in SharePoint Online and OneDrive via my browser?

While you can always access the files you store in Office 365 from your favorite browser, another great way to interact with them is via Microsoft’s OneDrive sync client.  Syncing creates a local copy of your OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online Document Libraries on your machine that you can access via Windows File Explorer.  In addition to allowing you to use your files offline, this gives you the ability to work…

How do I create a new permission group in SharePoint?

Navigate in your browser to the SharePoint site for which you would like to create the new group.  In the upper right corner, click on the gear, then on Site Settings. Click on People and groups under Users and Permissions. Select More… on the left to see a list of all groups already on the site. Select New Group under New. Enter a name for the new group and a description if…

How do I change the permissions on a document library folder in SharePoint?

Provided you have the appropriate administrative permissions yourself, you will start by navigating in your browser to the Document Library folder you would like to change the permissions for. Click on the three dots to the right of the folder and then the three dots to the right of Share. Click on Shared With and then Advanced. Select Stop Inheriting Permissions at the top. You can then select any of the groups…

I added a file to the Shared with Everyone folder on my OneDrive for Business, but it’s not showing up for the other people in my company. What is the issue?

The Shared with Everyone folder that you may see as a part of your default OneDrive for Business document folders is a bit confusing. What you put in that folder is indeed accessible to everyone, but each user’s folder is unique. So the contents in your folder are only in yours and another user has different content they have placed there. To see a file in another user’s folder, the…