<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the reply. The point about issues with a VPN is interesting. As someone else posted, SharePoint is more than just a web server. I expect there's a range of features using ports and protocols people may tend to filter by default.<br><br></div> - Paul Beltrani<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Miles Fidelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" target="_blank">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Paul Beltrani wrote:<br>
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We have an IT vendor that's trying to convince our CFO to move to Office365/SharePoint. I get why they're proposing it. They're a Microsoft only consultant and it's the only tool in their box. Also, they stand to make some big bucks in professional services to set it all up.<br>
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However, they're steam-rolling over the objections of a large number of more modern users who have been using Macs, Linux and Google Apps for Business for years.<br>
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Does anyone have recent experience with SharePoint/Office365 using a client on any OS other than windows? I would very much like to know what breaks and/or causes difficulty for Mac and Linux users. If Exchange is any example, they'll claim it's cross platform (i.e. OWA) but in practice you get limited functionality unless you're running Windows.<br>
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Can't talk to the hosted version, but regular SharePoint breaks rather badly on Windows - when you're running across a VPN.<br>
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Re. Exchange, I've had pretty good luck accessing the company server from both my personal Mac and my Android phone.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Miles Fidelman<br>
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