Mac OS X: Office 365 with the new Office 2016 suite By Mariette Knap mac, office 365, office 2016, outlook 2016, onedrive, onedrive for business Last summer Microsoft released the new Office 2016 suite for the Mac. This is basically an upgrade of the good old Office 2011 for the Mac but there is more to this. If you purchase a Office 365 subscription you get all the cloud ‘goodies’ from Microsoft but you are also allowed to install Office 365 on 5 different devices. So, if you have also a Microsoft based laptop as I do you can install Office on that one also. Pages Mac OS X: Office 365 with the new Office 2016 suiteInstall Office 2016 on your MacHow to configure Outlook 2016 on your MacHow to install and configure OnedriveHow to install and configure Onedrive for Business on your Mac In this tutorial we will explain what you can do with Office 365 on a Mac and how to configure Outlook and Onedrive. In this tutorial we assume that you have already purchased an Office 365 subscription. I have Office 365 Small Business Premium and that includes almost everything Microsoft has to offer. Install Office 2016 on your Mac Open Safari or your favorite browser (I changed to Firefox) on your Mac and browse to https://login.microsoftonline.com and login with your credentials. Click on ‘Download the latest version of Office’. If you do not see the option to install Office 2016 for the Mac you probably do not have OS X 10.10 Yosemite installed. That is a minimum requirement to install the 2016 version. I have Office 2013 already installed on my Windows 10 laptop. Click install. Download the Office 2016 for the Mac installer. Click ‘Save File’. Once downloaded it should appear in your downloads folder and double click on the installer. Click Continue Read the license agreement and click Continue. Click Agree. Click Install Enter your credentials and click Install Software Almost done, click Close. Click Get Started Sign to activate Office Sign with the email address you use for login into Office 365 They need to know what account you want to use to activate. In my case it is my work account. Sign in I choose the Colorful theme for Office. We can start using Word. And there is Word 2016 for the Mac Have a look in Applications and see what other Office 2016 apps are installed. How to configure Outlook 2016 on your Mac If you have not done that already I would drag the Office icons to your dock. Launch Outlook now. Outlook wants to be able to read information from your keychain. Click always allow to prevent further prompts for this. Click Next Click Get started Start using Outlook Add account Choose Exchange or Office 365 if you have that. I have Office 365 so I choose that. Fill in the credentials you use to login Office 365 Check ‘Always use my response for this server’ and click Allow. Review your settings and you are ready to use Outlook 2016 on your Mac. How to install and configure Onedrive Open the app store and find Onedrive and click on Get. Sign in with your credentials for the App Store. Click Open to launch Onedrive Initial configuration for Onedrive has started. Click Get Started. With your Onedrive credentials sign in. Remember that this is NOT Onedrive for Business so you cannot use your Office 365 credentials for this. You need to use your Microsoft account for this. You can change the location for your OneDrive folder. The default points to Documents and that is good for me. Click Next You can choose to synch all your file or some. Click Done My recipes are now synched and ready to be used! How to install and configure Onedrive for Business on your Mac Download Onedrive for Business Mac sync client from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45519 Open your downloads folder and start the installation of Onedrive for Business Mac sync client Double click OneDrive for Business installer. Continue Continue Agree Install Enter your Mac administrative credentials and click Install Software Click Close Look in Applications for Onedrive for Business Click Get Started Enter your Office 365 credentials and click Sign In. Choose the location for the Onedrive for Business folders. I choose the default which will create folders inside the Documents folder. Click Next I changed the color of the menu bar because in Dark it does not show the Onedrive for Business cloud. You’ll see two clouds, one for your Business account and the other one is for your personal Onedrive Account. The personal Onedrive Account. The Onedrive for Business folder inside your Documents folder.