My organization (King County) is about to make the last-ditch move to upgrade from SharePoint Online 2010 to SharePoint Online 2013, and we’ve found that SPO 2013 doesn’t support mixed use of Office versions.
We’ve standardized on Office 2010 across our enterprise. Alas, SharePoint Designer 2010 doesn’t work with SharePoint Online 2013, so we’ve installed SharePoint Designer 2013–part of the Office family.
So now, anyone with Office 2010 suite and SharePoint Designer 2013 is unable to open Office files in their native clients from the SharePoint Online browser. Something automatically appends ms-word:ofe|u| onto the front of the file URL (as in “ms-word:ofe|u|http://…”) and the file can’t be found.
I’ve reported the problem to Premier, and they’re looking into it. It’s documented in spots across the Web, its victims running mixed versions of Office including Project 2013 and the usual Office 2010 suite, so it looks like this is an Office configuration issue that shows up specifically in SharePoint Online 2013.
Anyway, if anyone has any idea a) what’s happening and b) what’ll fix this, many of us here would be greatful!
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TOM BRAMAN, SHAREPOINT ADMIN/EVANGELIST
king county web team
king county department of information technology
401 fifth ave., no. 700
seattle, wa 98104
desk: 206-263-7836
cell/SMS: 206-661-4978
Available/free times: bit.ly/tomsCal
Turns out this is a known issue that is repaired by applying Office 2010 Service Pack 2. Voila. (Thank you, Microsoft Premier!)
