Office 365 Sharepoint Online and office 2003
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2012년 2월 13일 월요일 오후 4:38We are preparing to transition from BPOS to Office 365 and currently ONLY use the Sharepoint Online services in BPOS. We have several users with Office 2003 - will they have any issues after the upgrade or do you need to be on Office 2007 to leverage Sharepoint Online as well as the other features?
Anthony Kelly
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2012년 2월 13일 월요일 오후 5:43
Office 365 is not supported with Office 2003. If you have Office 2003 installed, the Office 365 set up too will not be able to be installed. It will not prevent a user from opening SharePoint Online from a computer with Office 2003 installed, but you won't be able to enable Single Sign On, or connect to Exchange Online or SharePoint Online from clients such as Outlook 2003. You can save documents created with Office 2003 into a SharePoint Online site, but I do not think you'll be able to open those SharePoint Online sites as a storage location from within Office 2003.
With Office 365, you should plan to upgrade to either Office 2007 or Office 2010 for the best interoperability story between your client tools and Office 365. One major warning I do want to make you aware of: Office 365 is not compatible with Office 2007 Service Pack 3. If you choose to go with Office 2007, make sure you only install Service Pack 2. This was something that threw a customer of mine off, and it was very painful for them to roll back Service Pack 3 to get the Office 365 setup tool working.
Does that make sense?
John
MCITP and MCTS: SharePoint, Virtualization, Project Server 2007
My books on Amazon: The SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide and The SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide.
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2012년 2월 13일 월요일 오후 7:52
It does, thanks.
So can I summarize it this way - an Office 2003-equipped user will be able to use the Office 365 Sharepoint online service AS Sharepoint (collaborate on docs, set alerts, complete tasks, etc) but will NOT be able to leverage any of the other Office 365 functionality?
Anthony Kelly
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2012년 2월 14일 화요일 오후 12:53
Anthony --
I believe your summary is correct, but I would also mention that we're talking about the aspects of SharePoint Online that are strictly browser-based. In those cases, you'll need to keep an eye on what version of Internet Explorer your clients are running and make sure that its compatible with SharePoint Online. In cases where a user is accessing SharePoint Online or interacting with it through a product in the Office suite and not the browser (or takes an action that leads to an Office product opening locally), I would expect that your users will have a degraded experience or will not be able to complete their activities.
John
MCITP and MCTS: SharePoint, Virtualization, Project Server 2007
My books on Amazon: The SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide and The SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide.
My blog: My Central Admin.
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