Minimal Machine Requirements for Office 365. Make Outlook 2007 and 2010 work with Office 365.

Even though Office 365 has come a really long way from its beginning, I continue to meet customers who want to keep using their old versions of Office suites or Windows OS Machines. I continue to educate them how Office 365 is about new features built in-the-cloud and boosts the

'user productivity' in many great ways, which obviously need you to evolve. You got to switch to the 'Click to Run' fashion Office suite (included in all Office 365 plan featuring Office ProPlus) which brings an always up-to-date Office 2016 on your Windows or Mac.

Long story short, I may tell them all the good (and bad), but sometimes they have invested a nice amount of money purchasing the volume licenses of Office 2010 or even 2007 which they just want to keep using for another two months or years.The Office 365 migration should not give them nightmares of outlook not connecting to EXO or not being stable and what not. For 'those' customers, I recommend installing these updates on your devices to make them office 365 ready for the most basic services like Email, Skype for business or even SharePoint.

The piece of information makes sense for customers who do NOT want to invest in upgrading the Office applications or OS's. Update the machines with below mentioned updates and see if you are in luck.

Outlook client (local machine):

·         Outlook 2016 

·         Outlook 2013 (SP1 or newer Preferred)

·         Outlook 2010 Service Pack 2, or newer

·         Outlook 2007 Service Pack 3, or newer

Operating System Requirements: 

·         Windows 10                :           No Special patch required.

·         Windows 8 or 8.1        :           No Special patch required.

·         Windows 7                  :           Service Pack 1

·         Windows Vista            :           Service Pack 2

·         Windows XP               :           OS No Longer Supported.

Required update	Applies to/Description	Download links
UPDATES FOR ANY SUPPORTED VERSION OF WINDOWS
Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant (IDCRL7)	Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. User credentials are managed by Microsoft Online Services ID. To sign in to the services, users must install the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant. Article / Description. To download, Please go to the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=28177&751be11f-ede8-5a0c-058c-2ee190a24fa6=True	For 32-bits Windows	For 64-bitsWindows
UPDATES FOR OFFICE 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2526086)	Microsoft Office 2007 on all versions of Windows Office 2007 is not supported with a service pack older than Service Pack 3. Service Pack 2 was supported until 1/8/2013 Article / Description	For 32-bitsOffice	N/A
Outlook 2007 update: November 13, 2012 (KB2687404)	Update required by April 8, 2014. Provides a password expiration notification for Outlook users Article / Description	For 32-bits Office	N/A
UPDATES FOR OFFICE 2010
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2460049)	Microsoft Office 2010 on all versions of Windows Office 2010 is not supported without Service Pack 1. RTM (no Service Pack) was supported until 7/10/2012 Article / Description
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 2010 Update (KB2583935)	Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 2010 on all versions of Windows Article / Description	For 32-bits Office	For 64-bits Office
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 2010 Update (KB2597051)	Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 2010 on all versions of Windows. Corrects connectivity to the My Site functionality in Office 365 Article / Description	For 32-bits Office	For 64-bits Office
Microsoft Office 2010 Update (KB2566458)	Microsoft Office 2010 on all versions of Windows Corrects a problem with uploads when folders contain certain characters. Article / Description	For 32-bits Office	For 64-bits Office
Outlook 2010 update: November 13, 2012 (KB2687623)	Microsoft Office 2010 Update required by April 8, 2014. Provides a password expiration notification for Outlook users Article / Description	For 32-bits Office	For 64-bits Office

Note: These are the minimal system requirements without which the system may not work properly and should not be considered the list of all updates/patches required. Depending on the configuration of systems and programs or OS installed, additional updates might be required. Kindly ensure your systems are up-to-date from Microsoft Updates (or Windows Updates) before deploying the user profiles. Microsoft recommends running desktop setup tool to configure systems and updating the systems by Microsoft Updates.