Josiah Rocke
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Using Office Web Apps on SBS 2011 Premium
Old question: Install Web Apps On SBS 2011 Premium
New question: Has anyone got this to work? I've got 10 Office 2010 Pro Plus licenses that include use of Office Web Apps. I've also got a number of users who work from home on Macs. Rather than having them install Word & Excel, I'd like them to just use the web apps (ala Outlook.com reading and editing word docs).
Looking for anyone with experience doing this.
Thanks!
New question: Has anyone got this to work? I've got 10 Office 2010 Pro Plus licenses that include use of Office Web Apps. I've also got a number of users who work from home on Macs. Rather than having them install Word & Excel, I'd like them to just use the web apps (ala Outlook.com reading and editing word docs).
Looking for anyone with experience doing this.
Thanks!
Cliff Galiher
There are known conflicts with RWA that makes this type of setup broken. If you want web apps, you need a second server OS install.
ASKER
I am aware that you can't install Office Web Apps on a DC (or SBS 2011 Standard). I have the Premium Add-on which IS a second server OS. I know there is a work-around doc out there that shows how to tinker with Sharepoint on the DC and get it running on the add-on.
What I want to know is a)has anyone done it? and b)does it work well? Is there a better way to do it? An "official" way? Any tools to get it working since it was an advertised feature of SBS 2011 Premium Add-on?
Thanks
What I want to know is a)has anyone done it? and b)does it work well? Is there a better way to do it? An "official" way? Any tools to get it working since it was an advertised feature of SBS 2011 Premium Add-on?
Thanks
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Thanks for the reply.
Well, having no RWA would kinda defeat my purpose, however, regarding F) please see page 2 Premium Add-On.
You would think Microsoft would have figured out a supported way to make this work if they were going to advertise it.
Well, having no RWA would kinda defeat my purpose, however, regarding F) please see page 2 Premium Add-On.
You would think Microsoft would have figured out a supported way to make this work if they were going to advertise it.
That appears to be a PDF from Dell, not from Microsoft. OEMs have been allowed to customize marketing material, and in this case I'd guess it was not done in a concise manner. The scenario described, where they mention that SharePoint Foundation 2010 is a "free download" makes me believe this was originally a snippet from marketing material targeting SBS 2011 Essentials scenarios, but they didn't bother to include the rest of the stuff to make that clear.
At any rate, I'm not MS. I can only tell you what is out there, not what you think MS should have put out there. So I've answered the question as asked. If you have follow-up questions, feel free to ask them. But getting into a debate about whether MS should or should not support something isn't going to be particularly useful for the question at hand.
At any rate, I'm not MS. I can only tell you what is out there, not what you think MS should have put out there. So I've answered the question as asked. If you have follow-up questions, feel free to ask them. But getting into a debate about whether MS should or should not support something isn't going to be particularly useful for the question at hand.