I would not have expected to find Office Web Apps on premises to be exactly same as OWA in Office 365 or SharePoint Online.
However, has anyone a reference to indicate the main differences please?
Installed OWA with SP2013 Enterprise on premises. A noticiable difference between OWA on premises and online is missing ability to use ‘Save As’ and save the document in view as ODF (Open Document Format) for any of Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
Online this works OK for Microsoft Office binary or OOXML documents. On premises the only option I can see is Print.
I am trying to figure out if I have missed an installation option, a feature or configuration. Looking through TechNet and Forums has not shed any light.
My installation is SP 2013 Enterprise, OWA, Office 2010.
Suggestions welcome,
Mike Bunyan
Hello,
You are right, they are not exactly the same. The cloud is always “vNext” and will always have more features than the on-premises version of SharePoint. I don’t have an exact chart of what is new, but what you could do is look at the news on the Office blog concerning Office Online. https://blogs.office.com/?s=Office+online
Also, The “Save As” capability was introduced on Office online Feb 2015 > https://blogs.office.com/2015/02/11/office-online-gets-even-better-…
I don’t got any information yet, however I suppose this will be available in the next version of Office Web Apps / Office Online “on prem” 2016.
Couldn’t exactly answer your question but hope it helped 🙂
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