{"id":555,"date":"2015-09-16T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=555"},"modified":"2015-09-16T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:49:44","slug":"microsoft-office-365-proplus-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and Students are entitled to install up to 5 copies of Office 365 (basically Office 2013 for Windows; Office 2016 for Mac; Office for iPad) on home computers\/devices.<\/p>\n<p>STUDENTS\u00a0should click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/office365proplus\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/office365proplus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For STAFF, there are some useful points to be aware of:<\/p>\n<p>* IGM staff have been upgraded to Office365 email accounts.\u00a0Not everyone physically located at the Institute falls under the category of IGM staff, as we soon found out during the upgrade!<\/p>\n<p>To keep this simple, some colleagues come\u00a0under the remit of other Institutes\/organisations, who have their own time frame, with regards to Office365 upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">!!! Not sure if you have a newer Office365 type email account or the old owa\/exchange account? <a href=\"http:\/\/owa.ncl.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go to http:\/\/owa.ncl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Log in with your usual University login\/password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">If you see your emails *immediately* then you have the old owa\/exchange email account.<br \/>\nThose of you with the newer Office365 email accounts are prompted to follow a specific link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Colleagues\u00a0who have already opted to purchase Office under the \u00a39 work-at-home scheme, do not worry. That copy of Outlook is yours to keep, until Microsoft finally end support for a particular version of Office. Unlike the Office365 offer, it remains active, regardless of your status with the University.<\/p>\n<p>* This Office365 offer is provided on a subscription basis, dependent on you being registered as student\/staff, with an active IT account.<\/p>\n<p>* For Offcie365 accounts, remember that your outlook username is based on your_login@newcastle.ac.uk<br \/>\nThis is not an email address and it needs to be written out in full. Do not use @ncl.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, with all that out of the way, we can get to the actual links!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/office365proplus\/office365pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">PC owners with OFFICE365 email accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/office365proplus\/office365mac\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac owners with OFFICE365 email accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/office365proplus\/officeipad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office for Mobile (iPad) ONLY for OFFICE365 email accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Mac\/PC owners with email on OWA\/Exchange\" target=\"_blank\">Mac and PC owners with OWA\/EXCHANGE email accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/staffoffice365\/\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a> for\u00a0the original NUIT web page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and Students are entitled to install up to 5 copies of Office 365 (basically Office 2013 for Windows; Office 2016 for Mac; Office for iPad) on home computers\/devices. STUDENTS\u00a0should click on this link http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/softwaredeals\/office365proplus\/ For STAFF, there are some useful points to be aware of: * IGM staff have been upgraded to Office365 email <a href='https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=555' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}