Microsoft Office 365

Office 365 is freely available to the following:

• CDU employed staff
• Menzies employed staff
• CDU enrolled students.

If you are unsure, please contact the ITMS Service Desk on (08) 7943 6600 to confirm.

• Eligibility ceases along with employment/enrolment. Once your account with CDU (staff/students) ends, your licence for the Office 365 packages will expire (please keep a record of any previous licences you may have had prior to installing Office 365 products).
• Should you already have an Office 365 licence from somewhere else, it is possible that you will not see all the applications you are entitled to, such as publisher and access, until you use your CDU account.

As part of the ongoing improvement to IT services, CDU in cooperation with Microsoft, have negotiated to offer and support a more robust, stable, accessible, and consistent email service which includes:

• increased mailbox size (50GB per user)
• improved speed of delivery for emails
• increased redundancy and disaster recovery
• greater mobility and connectivity options.

Microsoft Office 365 has many features which make conventional email more accessible and flexible for CDU staff and students. In addition, Office 365 also offers several features to the advantage of faculties and staff.

Some of the highlights include:

• increased availability - with online storage, emails have a 99.99 per cent uptime, providing CDU staff and students have a reliable network/data connection
• flexibility - using a web-based interface, emails will be available on any device that has a network connection and a web browser
• email Protection (SPAM/Virus protection) - email protection works to block more than 99 per cent of spam, viruses, worms and other harmful content
• more email capacity - 50Gb per mailbox compared to the 1Gb currently offered
• better mobile support for all smart devices - Office 365 products and licences cover all major devices ranging from smartphones to personal laptops
• Office 365 Licences - CDU staff and students are provided with five Office 2016 licences as long as they are a current staff or student. This means that you are free to install the local software on your personal devices.

Please note:  You are free to consume the five licences at their own discretion, however, ITMS cannot provide troubleshooting or assistance on personal devices.

Microsoft has a lot of useful information on using Office 365.

Below are some links to get you started.

• Office 356 Training Centre - recommended
• Learn your way around Office 365
• Getting started with Office 365
• Office 365 scenario-based training

These instructions are for the installation of Office 2016 on a personal computer - for CDU devices, please request from ITMS via LogIT. 

Minimum specifications

Please make sure your Windows device meets these system requirements before proceeding:

Installation

Login to the CDU Portal with your CDU email address and password.

Click the Office 365 tile.

Once inside, click the Install Office option on the top right.

Choose Office 365 apps to install the Office 365 suite.

follow the instructions provided on the screen.

Further assistance

Microsoft provides a comprehensive installation guide for Windows devices. These instructions will only work once you have had your email migrated to the online email environment.

These instructions are for installation of Office 2019 on a personal computer. For CDU devices, please request from ITMS via LogIT.

Minimum specifications

Please make sure your Mac device meets these system requirements before proceeding:

Installation

Login to the CDU Portal with your CDU email address and password.

Click the "Office 365" tile.

Once inside, click the "Install Office" option on the top right.

Choose "Office 365 apps" to install the Office 365 suite.

And follow the instructions provided on the screen.

Further assistance

Microsoft provides a comprehensive installation guide for Mac devices. These instructions will only work once you have had your email migrated to the online email environment.

Please note: In order to be prompted to install Office 2016, your Mac OS needs to be at Version 10.10 or later.

Yes, if you already have a copy of Microsoft Office 2019 you can use this, but you need to switch accounts and use your CDU account.

Open any Office application (Word, Excel etc), and in the top right corner is the account you are using. You can switch from this to your CDU account by clicking "Switch account".

You need to click "Add Account" and use your CDU email address and password.

This will allow you to use one of the licenses, provide by CDU, to use Microsoft Office 2019.

If you have reached the maximum allocated licences for your CDU account, you can de-activate some of the licences using these instructions provided by Microsoft.