Quantcast
Channel: SCN: Message List - SAP GUI
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 6448

Workaround for Office 365

$
0
0

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.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 6448

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>