Office web applications when how why

Office Web Applications
What, When and How…

Agenda
What are the Office Web Apps?
Where can they be found?
Browser Compatibility
Versions
Viewing and Editing
When to use the full client
Co-Authoring
Known Issues
Recommended Requirements
PowerPoint Broadcasting

About the Speaker
Alex Pearce
Blog: www.bfcnetworks.com
Email: apearce@bfcnetworks.com
Twitter: @alex_pearce
Personal Interest in SharePoint…
Education
Learning Gateways/Learning Platforms
User Adoption
Integration

What are Web Apps?

Office Web Apps
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft PowerPoint

Where are they?
There are 3 version
Office Web Application in SharePoint 2010
Live.com
Live Workspaces
SkyDrive
Office 365

Internet Explorer 7.0
Firefox 3. x
Safari 4. x for the Macintosh
Google Chrome
Mobile Browsers
Windows Mobile
Blackberry
iPhone/iPad
Nokia S60

New - Browser Compatibility
Firefox 4.0
Google Chrome X.X

Versions
There are 2 version
Office Web Application in SharePoint 2010
Live.com
Live Workspaces
SkyDrive
Office 365

Versions – User Expectation
Additional Features in live.com, these include:
Print
Ability to print the document from the browser
Embed
Add the embeddable code to website, blog, SharePoint
Share
Share with your live.com profile with friends (linkable to Facebook)

Viewing and Editing
When viewing the file you will see the document as it would in the full client
When editing you lose the ability to view complex areas of the document
Watermarks
Cover Page

When to use full client
Information Rights Management
Copying Formatting inside a document
Complex Shapes
Thesaurus
Drawing images by Ink (OneNote)
Embedding media or other files into OneNote
Tracked changes
Macros
Updating external tables/queries
Mobile: View Documents only

Co-authoring
Word and PowerPoint
Can only open the document in the same client application
Office 2010 Full Client to Office 2010
Office Web Apps to Office Web Apps
Excel
Ensure no one is editing the document at the same time in the full client
OneNote
Can either use OneNote 2010 or OneNote Web Apps

Known Issues – Open in...
Microsoft Office is not installed on the client computer.
The user is running a 64-bit version of IE.
The ActiveX control necessary for opening the file in the Office client application not being installed or not running in the browser.
The version of Office that is installed is earlier than Office 2003
Security settings in Internet Explorer prevent ActiveX controls from running.
The browser does not support ActiveX.
When using Firefox and the plugin that enables Firefox to open Office documents is not installed/enabled.

Known Issues…
Copy and Paste
Better experience with Silverlight

Recommended Requirements
Silverlight
Word
Faster Loading Performance
Rending of text and spacing
Improving accuracy of search research when using Find
PowerPoint
Smoother animations
Scaling of browser window

PowerPoint Broadcasting
Security
Know who you are broadcasting to
Do they have permission to the broadcasting site?
Are you sure you want to enable anonymous access?
Expectation
Do they have Silverlight?
What browser do they use?
Will they get a rich/smooth experience
Deliver expectation (run in IE, require speakers, install Silverlight)
Adding Broadcast sites into PowerPoint
Add up to 10 broadcast sites into PowerPoint 2010 for users to use
Permission based

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Office web applications when how why

by pearce.alex on Apr 20, 2011

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