[AccessD] FW: Office 365

[James Button]

Martin,

Thanks for the fast and detailed reply.

Me - I provide a small scale support facility for single user stations -
vertical market applications - some development - mostly VBA now - although for
365 I'm probably going back to variants of C
(sorry about the "U understand" meant to type  "I understand" - keyboard up to
its habit of dodging about under the fingers!

Re the access  " and what are the terms of it's use - and withdrawal." - I was
mostly asking about the provision to your organisation  - as in didn't renew,
goodbye data on that day?

Re Onedrive for Business - I understand the user access apps are better than
those for home (non-business) users.
(Assumption reinforced by the onedrive support person's comments regarding my
reports of the naffness included a suggestion that I should take the business
365 option)

The agents and agencies bit was regarding the security of the data, and the
ability, and possibilities for it to be shared out by Microsoft.
I presume that some of the data held by yourselves would be contractually
limited access - from, or about 3rd parties as well as students, faculty and
staff
 - and some even financially sensitive - pending copyright etc. 
Terms in many IT facility provision contracts I have seen allow the provider of
storage and data transport to pass that data through 3rd party organisations
acting as their 'agents', and for the data to be made available to other
agencies wherever the data is held, or transported through their jurisdiction.
Holland and Dublin implies EU data access and control restrictions and
requirements, including any backups of that storage facility.
   

Thanks again for the fast and detailed reply.

JimB

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin
Reid
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:49 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] FW: Office 365

Hi James

We use Office 365 for education. We do not do any development and we have no
supporting systems on site. We do sync our AD to Office 365 and other than that
that's about it.

On the desktop on student machines we control the version of Office. At the
moment that is 2013. On staff machines it 2010 -2013 with a small number of
2016. We do not support a mixed office install at all on PCs. We will support
one version on a PC and that's it. now days we do very little development in
Access.

We use One Drive for Business which is SharePoint. 

For students they lose access once they stop being a student that's usually 4 -5
years after initial sign on. They are responsible for removing anything they
would like to keep.

In terms of enterprise level work egg large scale databases we host them
internally but are doing some work on Azure with a view to moving some systems
out. 

In terms of agent access not sure what you mean. Our data is held on European
data centres in Holland and Dublin. I am aware of recent attempts to access data
form the USA but jury still out on that. Any data we would be concerned about we
hold mostly in large enterprise systems on site.

Martin

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