Office Live Team

Information specifically for office live users and developers

Community members want the business users to have a support forum and common location to find a collection of power users and technology companies in support of MS office live. A place to go for common questions and answers as well as development and advanced topic discussion.

If you are a Macintosh (Apple) user then you should be aware that the Mesh client is available for your Mac.

If your looking for a cost-effective way to backup your e-mail (offsite) and you signed up for a Microsoft live mesh account, then you have what you need to get started.

Why should you choose office live for your small business?

GotoMyPC.com is done for! First of all GoToMyPC wont sync files to an online location and secondly you cant remote control more than one machine. Live mesh does both!
Have you ever gone home early thinking “I’ll work on that proposal later” and realized later that you forgot an appendix or perhaps have the wrong version? [...]

This is article provides a fairly comprehensive overview of Google vs. Office Live. However, it fails to mention the newly released Live Workspaces and associated collaboration features. I must admit that after reviewing this article it is apparent that a battle is brewing. I will be tracking this comparison but I will likely represent the [...]

It looks like Microsoft is planning to pump up the functionality of the Small Business Platform by connecting it to Office Live. This could be really interesting as the potential for disaster recovery, offline access and other interesting features become possible. Unfortunately we wont know about all of the new features until later this year [...]

If you have been attempting to use custom design tools such as SharePoint Designer 2007 then you are probably somewhat baffled by Office Live. Fortunately, as of yesterday (2/10/08), someone decided to sneak in a new feature that allows customization of the Header, Footer and Navigation bar without the need for any special editing [...]

I signed up for the live workspace beta and the very first thing that I noticed is the calendar and contact synchronization capabilities. Within OfficeLive.com this feature isn’t even close to the same.Office Live accounts are designed to leverage the original implementation of Hotmail.com which does not allow for calendar synchronization. Another interesting feature in [...]