{"id":220951,"date":"2016-05-04T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=220951"},"modified":"2022-07-19T06:21:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:21:17","slug":"office-online-server-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/office-online-server-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Online Server now available"},"content":{"rendered":"
Editor’s note 12\/04\/2017:<\/strong> We are excited to announce the release of Office Online Server (OOS), which allows organizations to deliver browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, among other capabilities. Microsoft recognizes that many organizations still value running server products on-premises for a variety of reasons. With OOS, you get the same functionality we offer with Office Online<\/a> in your own datacenter. OOS is the successor to Office Web Apps Server 2013.<\/p>\n OOS scales well for your enterprise whether you have 100 employees or 100,000. The architecture enables one OOS farm to serve multiple SharePoint, Exchange and Skype for Business instances. OOS is designed to work with SharePoint Server 2016, Exchange Server 2016 and Skype for Business Server 2015. It is also backwards compatible with SharePoint Server 2013, Lync Server 2013\u00a0and, in some scenarios, with Exchange Server 2013. You can also integrate other products with OOS through our public APIs.<\/p>\n While OOS runs on your own servers, we are working hard to give you the same experiences you would get if you used our cloud service. For example, real-time co-authoring will now be enabled in Office Online Server. We will deliver most of the new Office Online features to OOS through regular updates.<\/p>\n When used with other servers, OOS makes a variety of scenarios possible:<\/p>\n With exception of those who have access through the Open Program, customers with a Volume Licensing account can download OOS from the Volume License Servicing Center<\/a>\u00a0at no cost and will have view-only functionality, which includes PowerPoint sharing in Skype for Business. Customers that require document creation, edit and save functionality in OOS will need to have an on-premises Office suite license with Software Assurance or an Office 365 ProPlus subscription. Customers that purchase an on-premises Office 2016 suite through Volume Licensing before August 1, 2016 will be exempt from the Software Assurance requirement through August 1, 2019. For more information on licensing requirements, please refer to our Product Terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are excited to announce the release of Office Online Server (OOS), which enables customers to provision browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote from their on-premises environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3368823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"content-type":[4034],"product":[4048,4036,4066],"audience":[4081],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4437],"class_list":["post-220951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","content-type-news","product-exchange","product-microsoft-365","product-sharepoint","audience-enterprise"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFor customers whose licenses qualify for OOS but do not have access to the Volume License Servicing Center, the following actions are possible:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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