Office desktop setup provides multiple benefits, including: Automatically detecting necessary updates Installing updates and components upon approval or silently from a command line Automatically configuring Outlook and Microsoft Lync for use with Microsoft Office 365 Uninstalling itself from the client computer after running A list of these update requirements are available for companies that want to use an alternative method of deploying the updates. See the help topic for details. Note Office desktop is not an authentication or sign-in service and should not be confused with single Federated Identity and Single Sign-On With on-premises Active Directory, administrators can use a single sign-on approach to Office 365 authentication. To achieve this, administrators can configure on-premises Active Directory Federation Services—a Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 service—to federate with the Microsoft Federation Gateway. After Active Directory Federation Services is configured, all Office 365 users whose identities are based on the federated domain can use their existing corporate logon to automatically authenticate to Office 365. Operating System and Software Requirements Table 1 shows the operating system and browser combinations that are required to access Microsoft Office 365 services—including SharePoint Online. Table 1: Operating systems and browser combinations supported by Microsoft Office 365 Operating system Supported browers Windows Internet Explorer 8 and later versions Windows 7 (32-bit) Firefox 3 and versions Chrome 6 and later versions Internet Explorer 8 and later versions Windows 7 (64-bit) Firefox 3 and later versions Chrome 6 and versions Internet Explorer 7 and later versions Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (32-bit) Firefox 3 and later versions Chrome 6 and later versions
Office desktop setup provides multiple benefits, including: Automatically detecting necessary updates Installing updates and components upon approval or silently from a command line Automatically configuring Outlook and Microsoft Lync for use with Microsoft Office 365 Uninstalling itself from the client computer after running A list of these update requirements are available for companies that want to use an alternative method of deploying the updates. See the help topic for details. Note Office desktop is not an authentication or sign-in service and should not be confused with single Federated Identity and Single Sign-On With on-premises Active Directory, administrators can use a single sign-on approach to Office 365 authentication. To achieve this, administrators can configure on-premises Active Directory Federation Services—a Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 service—to federate with the Microsoft Federation Gateway. After Active Directory Federation Services is configured, all Office 365 users whose identities are based on the federated domain can use their existing corporate logon to automatically authenticate to Office 365. Operating System and Software Requirements Table 1 shows the operating system and browser combinations that are required to access Microsoft Office 365 services—including SharePoint Online. Table 1: Operating systems and browser combinations supported by Microsoft Office 365 Operating system Supported browers Windows 7 (32-bit) Windows Internet Explorer 8 and later versions Firefox 3 and versions Chrome 6 and later versions Windows 7 (64-bit) Internet Explorer 8 and later versions Firefox 3 and later versions Chrome 6 and versions Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (32-bit) Internet Explorer 7 and later versions Firefox 3 and later versions Chrome 6 and later versions
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