A.3. Configuring a site with Office 365

An alternate option to configuring your PC to run a SharePoint 2010 environment is to use Microsoft’s publicly available SharePoint environment. This is part of the Office 365 offering. Office 365 contains a suite of tools, so in addition to SharePoint you will get to play around with email, instant messaging, and Office Web Apps. Setting this up is a simple and easy process. First, go to the Microsoft.com site and search for Office 365 trial. Select the midsize business and enterprise free trial. From this point follow the steps to sign up, as shown in figure A.6. This account will last for 30 days and give you all the functionality that you will need to have a SharePoint environment to complete the scenarios in this book.

Figure A.6. Sign Up page for Office 365

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