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EN Desktop Office Integration: Maintenance information
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Long Text Symptom Which combinat combinations ions of Deskto Desktop p Office Integr Integration ation (DOI) re releases leases and Office products have been released by SAP? How are the maintenance periods defined for combinations of DOI and Office products? This SAP Note explains the prerequisites for using the DOI interface delivered on the presentation DVD. This SAP Note also specifies t he dates of the various maintenance phases. Reason and Prerequisites Preliminaries Desktop Office Integration is a Basis component that is used in many applications. The support of office products greatly depends on the support from the manufacturers of the respect respective ive product. We cannot provid provide e ful l support for products or components that are no longer maintained by the relevant vendors. You should also refer to the related note (SAP Note 147519) about the SAP GUI support to find out how long we will support certain c ombinations of SAP GUI releases and operating systems. An applicati application on can use Off Office ice products in numerous diff different erent technica technical l ways. You must therefore first determine which of these (tech nical) options is used. If you do not know how the Office connection in a certain application is realized, first contact the applicati on components. If it turns out that the implementation did not take place with Des Desktop ktop Office In Integration, tegration, see SAP Note 10317 103174. 4. DOI only supports the following Microsoft Office products: Microsoft Word, Microsof Microsoft t Excel, Micro Microsoft soft PowerPoint PowerPoint, , Microsoft Vi Visio. sio. It does not support Microsoft Access or Microsoft Outlook, for example. DOI does not support the Office Viewer applications (Excel Viewer, Word Viewer, P PowerPoint owerPoint View Viewer, er, and Visio V Viewer), iewer), either either, , since t echnical reasons prevent this (for example: DOI uses Excel to generate Excel files, and Excel Viewer does not offer this function). We make ever every y effort to su support pport newly ava available ilable release releases s of Office products as so soon on as possible following thei their r official rel release ease by t he producer, as long as this is technically possible. If you experience problems when you use Excel to display data, see SAP Note 696069 . For more information about the lifecycles of Microsoft Office products, see http://support.Microsoft.com/ http://support.Microsoft.com/gp/lifeselecto gp/lifeselectoff ff .
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________________________________________________________________________ Refer to http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/ for information on IBM/Lotus Office products. Microsoft Visio 2013 & Visio 2016 Microsoft Visio 2013 and 2016 are supported as of Patch Level 6 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 and Patch Level 0 of SAP GUI for Windows 7 .50. However, note here that only the Visio 2003 file formats such as vsd and vst are supported. Microsoft Office 2016 Microsoft Office 2016 is supported as of patch level 5 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40. Note: This statement is a part of the at interact with Office 2016. For a specific below.
refers only to the SAP Desktop Office Integration that SAP GUI for Windows. Other SAP technologies th Microsoft Office execute some of their own releases for statement on the 64-bit version of Office 2016, see
Microsoft Office 2013 Microsoft Office 2013 is supported as of patch level 3 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30. Take into account: This statement refers only to the SAP Desktop Office Integration that is a part of the SAP GUI for Windows. Other SAP technologies th at interact with Microsoft Office execute some of their own releases for Office 2013. For a specific statement on the 64-bit version of Office 2013, see below. Microsoft Office 64-bit editions Up to patch level 6 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30, Desktop Office Integration only supports Microsoft Office 32-bit editions. Update: As of patch level 7 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30, the 64-bit version of Office 2013 is also supported, and as of patch level 5 of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40, the 64-bit version of Office 2016 is also supported. Note that this support is explicitly granted only fo r Desktop Office Integration. If you use other components that interact with Microsoft Office (for example, Business Explorer or Inter active Excel), only the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Office can be used. For more information, see SAP Note 1442028. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft licenses Microsoft Office 365 as plans. You have access to the following, depending on your license plan: Only Microsoft Office Online (browser-based versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook) Microsoft Office Online + Office 365 ProPlus (complete client installation of Office 2013 or Office 2016) Use the following link to see an overview of the available license plans and to check which of these plans contains Office 365 ProPlus : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business/compare-all-office-365-for business-plans-FX104051403.aspx The information below describes the versions of Office 365 and lists release information for Desktop Office Integration.
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________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Office 365 Online (only in a browser) If your Office 365 license plan includes only Microsoft Office Online, you can work only with the online versions of Excel, Word, Powe rPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. These versions run in your browser and have restricted functions compared to locally installed versions of Office that are contained i n your Office 365 license agreement (MSI or Click-To-Run). Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of these restrictions: No support for macros in Office Documents (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-he lp/differences-between-using-a-w orkbook-in-the-browser-and-in-excel-HA010369179.aspx) Various other functions are not supported: Mail merge, form fields, link server, and more (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lib rary/jj819298.aspx) Since Desktop Office Integration makes extensive use of the above features, it cannot support Office 365 Online. Moreover, it is not p ossible to use the functions elsewhere. For this reason, it will not be possible to release Desktop Office Integration for Office 365 Online. However, you can use Office 365 ProPlus or another released Office product (see below). Office 365 ProPlus (complete client installation) If your Office 365 license includes Office 365 ProPlus, you can carry out a complete installation of Office 2013/2016 on your client h osts. The current versions of this variant of Office 365 have been successfully tested with Desktop Office Integration by SAP and are supported (for the prerequisites, see the information on Office 2013 and Office 2016 in this SAP Note). There are two versions of the complete client installation: Native installation using .msi Installation via "Click2Run" (based on application virtualization) SAP supports Desktop Office Integration for both of these variants; however, for the Click2Run version, you must bear in mind that - d epending on your settings - it might be automatically upgraded to a new Office release that is not yet supported by SAP. You can ident ify new Office releases (not the monthly updates) based on the technical version of Office. Office is currently based on version 15.X. XXXX.XXXX or 16.X.XXXX.XXXX. Office versions that start with a higher number than 15 would indicate a major update to a new release. I n this case, you should check this SAP Note to find out whether Desktop Office Integration has already been released for the target Of fice release. SAP participates in the Developer Preview Program from Microsoft and has access to beta versions of new office packages through this p rogram. It is therefore possible to release the DOI for new Office versions in a timely manner, unless Microsoft makes significant, im compatible changes to new Office versions. These releases will be documented in this SAP Note. If you want to be informed automaticall y about new releases or problems with a new version of Office, you can subscribe to the following thread on SAP Community Network: htt ps://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ATopics/SAP+GUI+for+Windows%3A+Import ant+News Furthermore, in the Office blog http://blogs.office.com/, Microsoft offers additional information, including announcements about new v ersions. Solution
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________________________________________________________________________ Office support for applications that use DOI Note: Below, "SAP Release" refers to the release of the "SAP_BASIS" component of your SAP system. Desktop Office Integration (DOI) (BC-FES-OFFI component) SAP Release 4.6 Microsoft Office 2007 - see also SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985, which contain corrections for DOI with Office 2007. Microsoft Office 2010 (32-bit) - see also SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985 . Visio 2007 Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.8 As of SAP Release 6.20 Microsoft Office 2007 - see also SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985, which contain corrections for DOI with Office 2007. Microsoft Office 2010 (32-bit) - see also SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985 . Microsoft Office 2013 (32-bit): As of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 patch level 3 - see SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985. Microsoft Office 2013 (64-bit): As of SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 patch level 7 - see SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985, as well as 144202 8 . Microsoft Office 2016 (32-bit): As of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 patch level 5 - see SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985. Microsoft Office 2016 (64-bit): As of SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 patch level 5 - see SAP Notes 972579 and 1012985, as well as 144202 8 . Office 365 See the comments in the section "Microsoft Office 365" above. Visio 2007 Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 - only Visio 2003 file formats such as vsd and vst are supported. Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.8 Maintenance periods We have set the following END DATES for the support of Desktop Office Integration with Office products that are no longer supported fu lly by the vendors. As of this "de-support" time, SAP no longer processes errors that relate to these office products. For an addition al time period of a maximum of twelve months before the delivery of patches, SAP checks the compatibility on platforms that have alrea dy reached the "de-support" time ("post mortem QA procedure"). In addition, we may only offer limited support for Desktop Office Integration on platforms that are no longer "mainstream" platforms f or the manufacturers if a problem occurs only in this version. SAP aims to correct such problems. In individual cases, however, SAP ma y be unable to solve the problem. In this case, SAP reserves the right to offer the use of a later version of the office software as a solution to the problem. The office products affected by this rule are in the "limited support" phase. Office product or support phase Restricted support Discontinuation of support Post mortem QA Microsoft Office 2003 As of April 14, 2009 April 8, 2014 Until March 31, 2015 Microsoft Office 2007 As of October 9, 2012 October 10, 2017 Until September 30, 2018
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________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Office 2010 As of July 14, 2015 July 14, 2020 Until June 30, 2021 Microsoft Office 2013 As of April 10, 2018 April 11, 2023 Until March 31, 2024 Microsoft Office 2016 As of October 13, 2020 October 14, 2025 Until September 30, 2026 Visio 2003 As of April 14, 2009 April 8, 2014 Until March 31, 2015 Visio 2007 As of October 9, 2012 October 10, 2017 Until September 30, 2018 Visio 2010 As of July 14, 2015 July 14, 2020 Until June 30, 2020 Visio 2013 As of 4/10/2018 April 11, 2023 Until March 31, 2024 Visio 2016 As of 10/13/2020 October 14, 2025 Until September 30, 2026 Remarks: You can also find lifecycle information about Microsoft Office packages on the Microsoft Website at https://support.microsoft.com/enus/lifecycle/search/. Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.8: IBM has not set any maintenance end dates yet. Known applications that use DOI: Application or transactionApplication component BPS0 (transaction) FI-SEM-BPS CV0*N (transaction) CA-DMS CG42 (transaction) EHS-BD-RDF-WWI Excel export, Excel inplace ALV, But not Excel export "SAP Macros" BC-SRV-ALV GR55 (transaction) FI-SL-IS-A ISHMED XX-PART-ISHMED-DOC OAOR (transaction) BC-SRV-BDS ORGANIZER (transaction) BC-SRV-RM PB60, PB50 (transactions) PA-RC SAP Business Workflow BC-BMT-WFM SCASE (transaction) BC-SRV-CM SCASEPS (transaction) CA-GTF-RCM SOLAR01 (transaction) SV-SMG-IMP-PAD Other terms Office interface, Office connection, Office compatibility matrix, Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, Office 97, Office 95, Office 2007, Office 2016, Office 12, MS Office 2007, SAP Office Integration , XXL export, docx format, Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 365, Click2Run ________________________________________________________________________
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