Workaround for Office 365

[Former Member]

I can see in the SAG GUI installation logs that:

- Office 365 is detected

- Word, Excel, Powerpoint 2013 are detected

- But the "Office 2013 installed" condition fails and SAP GUI does not install.

I can see in the Tech Notes that Office 365 is not supported, because of the Cloud webapps component. However this tech note is not at all clear. Office 365 can be installed locally, and when installed it is the normal ProPlus Retail product. You don't have to use the web apps, so web app integration can be ignored.

My question is, can you work around the Installation check? For example, the test is to look at the registry key for installed products. It would be easy to fake this key to pass the test. Or set a property in the installer. Or virtualise with Office 2013 and then run with Office 365. Or re-package without the installation tests. Does "not supported" mean "does not work" or does it just mean "more trouble than it is worth to support"?

Just to be absolutely clear, I am not concerned about what functionality might not work with the Office web app or Cloud products. Just whether it works with the natively installed Excel, Word 2013 delivered through the Office 365 subscription.

SAP GUI is 7.3 Patch 5. OS is Windows 7.

[jude_bradley]

Hello Anthony,

DOI is not supported with Office 365

From note 722513

Microsoft Office 365

Office 365 is a cloud-based Office package that has various functional limitations:

• No support for macros in Office documents (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/differences-between-using-a-workbook-in-the...)

• Does not support various other functions: Mail merge, form fields, link server and others (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819298.aspx)

Since Desktop Office Integration makes extensive use of these features, Office 365 cannot be supported by DOI. Moreover, it is not possible to use the functions elsewhere. For this reason, there will be no release of DOI for Office 365. If you use DOI, use one of the Office products specified below.

Within the framework of Office 365 ProPlus, it is possible to obtain local installations of full Microsoft Office packages (such as Office 2013). Even though Desktop Office Integration works with such packages, you must consider that Microsoft may automatically upgrade such packages to a new release that SAP has not released yet. DOI is released only for the specific packages listed below. Therefore, you must make sure that you use one of these Office packages

Microsoft Office 2003	As of April 14, 2009	08.04.2014	Until March 31, 2015
Microsoft Office 2007	As of October 9, 2012	10.10.2017	Until September 30, 2018
Microsoft Office 2010	As of July 14, 2015	14.07.2020	Until June 30, 2021
Microsoft Office 2013	As of April 10, 2018	11.04.2023	Until March 31, 2024
Visio 2003	As of April 14, 2009	08.04.2014	Until March 31, 2015
Visio 2007	As of October 9, 2012	10.10.2017	Until September 30, 2018
Visio 2010	As of July 14, 2015	14.07.2020	Until June 30, 2020

Regards,

Jude

[Former Member]

Thanks for this but I mentioned I already have SAP Note From 722513

[jude_bradley]

Since we don't have Office 365 to test with,I can only guess that if you install 7.30 Gui prior to installing

Office 365,that the Gui installation will proceed correctly.

Install Office 365 to see if it then works.

It's not supported due to the reasons outlined in the note. If there are any issues with Office and Office 365 is

installed,then we can only advise you to install the professional version of Office.

Hope this clarifies a bit more.

Jude

[Martina_Gállego]

Hi Anthony,

Please install last version of SAPGUI for Windows 730 Patch 9.

Check sapnote 1442028 - SAP GUI for Windows - Desktop Office Integration- Support for Office 64bit editions, where it says:

Desktop Office Integration (DOI)

Update: Up to and including patchlevel 6 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 DOI did not support Office 64bit editions, only 32bit versions of Office were supported. As of patchlevel 7 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 DOI also supports the 64bit edition of Microsoft Office 2013

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Martina

[Former Member]

Thanks for this but the question does not relate to 64-bit