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    Office 365 and ProjectWise integration

    JackiS
    Offline JackiS over 8 years ago

     Technically Microsoft Office365 is the same as Office 2013 & 2016.  We do currently support Office 2013 & 2016 with the Projectwise SS4 RU.  

    Office 365 integration is all about how it is installed.  We now support the click to run option. 

    The Office 365 installer is a little  different from a standard desktop version and without changing our integration installer ProjectWise will not be able to see that Office is present on the machine.   On a side note -widget/streaming of the Office 365 application does not support 3rd party ad ins, meaning Microsoft does provide an SDK.  This method will not be supported.

     While all of this is confusing even to IT folks Microsoft Office 365 basically has 4 options:

     

    1. Thick client
    2. Streaming (no SDK available for any third party to integrate)
    3. Click to Run  (within this option there are 2 options). 
      • Giving all management to Microsoft to update
      • .msi package locally installed to server.  ***This is what we now integrate with in our integration module.  The Office 365 click to run has directory its own directory structure verses the Office 2013 & 2016 directory structure. 

    4. Web apps (no 3rd party integration)

     NOTE: Again, this confuses most IT departments so they may not even be sure of what version you have.  You can check the registry entries on a machine as seen in the examples contained in the link below.

    A locally deployed Office 2013 that will integrate with ProjectWise registry entry would look like:

    (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\InstallRoot) is created with the defined path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\

    Office 2013 (Click to Run Office 365) Install Root also has a Virtual key in the registry as seen below. 

     

     

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    • AndyKing-Pit
      Offline AndyKing-Pit Wed, Sep 2 2015 2:39 PM
      We've been struggling with Office 365 integration, specifically Excel and Word documents not opening when users double-click. What I am finding - if we do not use ProjectWise integrated office as the associated app, for the double-click action, the performance is better and more or less, the process always works.

      When we use ProjectWise integrated Excel or Word, the program is slower to open, and often fails to open the document. This seems to be generating a lot of support calls to us. That is, the application opens and the document does not.

      As I've though about this, I ask myself- what is the benefit of Office 365 Integration when the file is opened from ProjectWise? Without any integration, the file is checked out, and when closed the user is prompted for check-in. For office documents, when opened from ProjectWise explorer, what benefit does ProjectWise integration provide that we'll lose if we set the default open action for non-Integrated ProjectWise?

      When office 365 apps are opened or created outside of ProjectWise, the add-on allows staff to save into ProjectWise directly, so we'll continue deploying the add-on.

      The question... what is the downside to this approach?
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    • uhimu Yefimenko
      Offline uhimu Yefimenko Fri, Mar 25 2022 1:45 PM in reply to AndyKing-Pit

      Hello, a great thread, But I wanted to ask why you are writing only about the downsides of Office 365 and ProjectWise integration. Here is a list of advantages. Personally, I like the fact that all project email attachments are stored in ProjectWise and that it sends notifications of new documents, as well as managing photos, has become more convenient and a set of other actions which allow you to interact with ProjectWise in new ways. The only thing I would add to this integration is a better accent on data protection.

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