Hello folks:
I’m a fairly new DevOps Engineer (SharePoint) for one of our subsidiary companies. Their client is asking if users who have NOT been upgraded to Office 2013 will have problems working with the Office Web Apps Server. Their specifically asking in regards to colleagues who are using Visio 2010 and Visio 2007.
So the question is….Can users of older Office apps (i.e. Visio 2010, Visio 2007) interact successfully with Office Web Apps Server 2013?
Thanks in advance. I’m delving into areas of SharePoint that I never had to before. It’s both exciting and scary at the same time. (remember Owen Wilson’s line in Armageddon just before the shuttle Independence launched?) The ratio is changing like that. I also worry a bit because I’m going to have to go through this all over again when 2016 gets to RTM.
Anyway, I’m grateful to be part of this community and I look forward to ‘meeting’ as many of you as possible.
LLAP,
Miguel
Thank you so much for your insight on that. Both you and Trevor are AWESOME!! I know what you mean about the DLL Hell thing. I had a couple of systems running 2013 and I performed the online install of 2016. Both are ProPlus, but I tell you, everytime I close an Office app that I’m using, the system goes through some type of confusion and then restarts the app. It seems to think I need to recover some info – I guess it’s misinterpreting a normal close as an interrupt or abort. I’m going to probably have to remove both versions and then place a clean 2016 on in order to stop the madness. I like your name for it though. Back in the day, we used to see that when people did in-place upgrades from Win95 to Win98 or Win98 to W2K. I should have remembered.
Anyway, thanks again folks – I’m very grateful.
Take care 🙂
