As it seems a little bit confused on how you can manage your SharePoint on Office 365, here is an how to

First, connect to the Office 365 portal and click on the Admin link shown at the top

from https://portal.microsoftonline.com/

From this page, you have some links to manage Exchange, SharePoint or Lync (as well some of your Office 365 tenant settings [internet domains, user…])

Below, Office 365 you have a Manage link for SharePoint

This link will redirect you to the SharePoint tenant administration page (the URL is like -admin.sharepoint.com">https://<youdomain>-admin.sharepoint.com where <yourdomain> is the one you associated when you have created your Office 365 tenant (youdomain.onmicrosoft.com)

From this page, you can manage SharePoint site collections, InfoPath services, User Profiles and Term Store

To manage your SharePoint Site Collections (settings, creation, deletion…) click on Manage Site Collections

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topic source  MSDN

PowerPivot for SharePoint supports Excel 2010 workbooks that contain PowerPivot data and that are published to a SharePoint site. As a result, other users who do not have the PowerPivot add-in installed can view and interact with the workbook. In addition, PowerPivot for SharePoint has unique features to extend the capabilities of Excel workbooks that contain PowerPivot data. For example, you can do the following:

• Highlight workbooks and the information that they contain from within SharePoint.

• Refresh external connections to resources to keep the data current.

• Schedule times to update the data automatically.

• Reuse PowerPivot data from one workbook in other workbooks.

Download PowerPivot for Excel 2010

PowerPivot workbooks are stored in a special type of SharePoint document library called the PowerPivot Gallery. It is designed specifically for working with PowerPivot workbooks and provides special navigational and preview capabilities for PowerPivot workbooks. The following steps create a new PowerPivot Gallery named Employment Reports.

To create a PowerPivot Gallery

1. Click Site Actions and then select More Options.

2. Click Library in the Filter By section and then select PowerPivot Gallery.

3. Name the library Employment Reports and then click Create.

   Figure 1. Creating a PowerPivot Gallery

After you create the PowerPivot Gallery, you can modify the settings to your specifications. For example, if you change the library view to anything other than All Documents, you can navigate through workbooks and their respective sheets without having to open the workbook. To experiment with the various PowerPivot Gallery views, follow these steps:

To change the gallery view

Note:
Power Pivot Galleries also contain an All Documents view, the standard view that is associated with document libraries in SharePoint 2010.

Interacting with Power Pivot workbooks

Power Pivot for SharePoint works hand-in-hand with Excel Services to let users interact with Power Pivot workbooks in a browser with extremely high fidelity and performance.

To interact with a Power Pivot workbook in the browser

Enabling and Configuring Data Refreshes

Power Pivot for SharePoint can automatically refresh data in a PowerPivot workbook so that you do not have to open the workbook in Excel, refresh the data, and then save the workbook back to SharePoint.

To schedule a data refresh

Figure 6. Data refresh document properties

Reusing PowerPivot Data in a new Workbook

One great feature in PowerPivot for SharePoint is the capability to reuse PowerPivot data across multiple workbooks. This feature enables you to create a new workbook that uses PowerPivot data associated with a separate workbook. For example, suppose that you must perform an analysis of employment data by state, and that in a previous analysis, you created a PowerPivot workbook that contains the data you need. You can reuse the PowerPivot data from your earlier analysis very easily by using PowerPivot for SharePoint.

To reuse data in a new workbook

Excel displays a new workbook with a PivotTable that is connected to the same data that is in the original PowerPivot workbook.

PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 is an add-in for Excel that enables you to create PowerPivot workbooks. A PowerPivot workbook is a special Excel workbook. It contains embedded data that is processed by an Analysis Services data engine that runs in-process with Excel. Some of the benefits that PowerPivot workbooks provide over standard Excel PivotTables include the following:

• PowerPivot avoids the row and column limitations in Excel.

• PowerPivot adds a data-relationship layer that you can use to integrate data from different sources.

• PowerPivot provides workbooks with portable, reusable data; data stays inside the workbook and there is no requirement to manage external connections.

PowerPivot for SharePoint adds the necessary services and infrastructure to SharePoint to enable users to work with PowerPivot workbooks. Some of the features include the following:

• A special document library called the PowerPivot Gallery that is designed specifically for PowerPivot workbooks.

• Unique document library views that simplify browsing and locating PowerPivot workbooks.

• Support for interaction with PowerPivot workbooks in the browser.

• Capability to automate data-refreshes.

• Management capabilities such as reporting PowerPivot workbook usage.

• Flexibility to add or remove whole installations to adjust the processing capacity across your farm as required by circumstances. Auto-discovery features in SharePoint and load balancing by the PowerPivot System Service ensure that the software finds and uses new instances automatically.

Although this feature set is impressive, it is even more impressive when you consider the complexity of the code that runs to achieve this functionality. Just as Excel works hand-in-hand with an in-process instance of Analysis Services to provide PowerPivot functionality in Excel 2010, when you access a PowerPivot workbook in the browser via Excel Services, Excel Services uses a server instance of Analysis Services to aggregate the data while Excel Services handles the rendering.

Ultimately, the beauty of this functionality is that it enables information workers to access powerful Business Intelligence capabilities and to easily share knowledge with little or no involvement from IT professionals. For IT professionals, the SharePoint management and reporting capabilities provide what they need to keep systems running smoothly.

SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK contains reference topics focusing only on types and members that are called by other Microsoft applications. This reference does not document the full SharePoint 15 managed object model. That documentation will accompany a later release of SharePoint 15.

Download Link : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28768
Source : http://microsoftfeed.com/2012/download-sharepoint-15-tech-preview

User profile synchronization service starting issues

There can be many problems which can cause to this issue, I will explain few which i found and how i address.

user profile synchronization service stuck on starting

here though i delete and recreate the user profile service application the synchronization still stuck in the middle.

let briefly see how user profile working ..

User Profile Service Application and User profile Synchronization share same Sync BD and Profile DB. But User profile synchronization service access AD through Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization service.

Workouts

First Check Forefront Identity Manager is Working (miisclient.exe). If this is starting most of the time their are no issues in Forefront Identity manager service and Sync Service. If so we have to check the databases for permission.

C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office Servers14.0Synchronization ServiceUIShellmiisclient.exe

If this not working (Most of the time this is the issue).

we need to check following windows services. (Services.msc)

if miisclient.exe is not working either above service may not work. so try to start the service. if it is a login problem it will say that can not strat due to login problem.

then go to Properties

and check logOn username,password and Account.

After correcting this try to restart the profile service and synchronization in the SharePoint after restarting the IIS.