Office Integration and non-MS browsers

I have an 'issue' with Office Integration and non-MS browsers with our SharePoint 2013 on-prem enviroment (using SSO via ADFS).
Background: our internal client wants to move to SharePoint sites for collaboration with external partners.  One of the selling points they're wanting to make to justify the move from their current
external collaboration site is Office integration - specifically the ability to open/edit/save documents by clicking on the document in SharePoint, having it open in Office (PC/client) for editing.  Note they are wanting full integration with the client
version of Office - not OWA.  The other requirement is that this work with both Firefox and Chrome.
Issue: Office integration works fine using Internet Explorer.  When a user click on a document the document opens in Office and can be edited directly in the browser without any additional prompts. 
But when clicking on a document via Firefox or Chrome the SSO login form pops-up when Office starts.  Once the user enters their credentials they can work with the documents as desired.  But our client does not want this second prompt.
Question:
Is there a way to configure SharePoint so that Firefox or Chrome open up documents for editing without a second logon prompt?  I'm assuming not based on my research on how these browsers handle
cookies differently than IE.   Can someone confirm? 
Is there a dev solution to this?  Note that because the users will be partners (non-employees) we are trying to avoid using a solution that would involve installing custom software on their pc's
(such as browser extensions).

Unfortunately you are looking at a plugin or having the users modify their browsers:
http://yalla.itgroove.net/2011/12/firefox-friday-3-sharepoint-login-prompts-on-firefox/
http://www.rhyous.com/2009/12/31/why-does-firefox-prompt-for-domain-ad-authentication-or-how-to-get-firefox-to-automatically-login-to-web-sites-with-domain-credentials-sharepoint-for-example/
Brandon Atkinson
Blog: http://sharepointbrandon.com

Similar Messages

  • Integrated and Non-Integrated Facility

    Can a facility be both Integrated and Non-Integrated?

    Dear Jeannie,
    I assume your question is related to the questions in the survey you received. This is a bit to specific to be discussed here. You should have received an email from PSN-Support.
    Best Regards,
    Jonas

  • Desktop Office Integration and Email

    Dear Colleagues:
    I have developed a Desktop Office Integration application that retrieves WORD documents from a BDS Content Server, customizes the document with BP data, emails the document to the BP as an attachment, and associates the document with the BP (Document tab).  It works well.
    I am now trying to figure out how to process the document and use the text as the body of an email message instead of an attachment - I cannot assume that all email recipients use MS Word.
    I have tried several FMs that convert raw data to either strings or RTF format but, inspite of my efforts, I get conversion errors.
    If anyone has tried something similar I would appreciate any advice.
    Regards,
    Steve

    hi.
    i dont know if this will be useful to you. because i did not not understand your exact requirement. are you using OAOR tr code?
    You mean to say you want to  a word document which was uploaded through bds document navigator.
    The code given below actually searches for a string and replaces all occurences of it with a new string..
    IF old_search_string ne search.
           get number of document characters.
            GET PROPERTY OF document_cntl_handle-obj
                           'characters' = ocharacters.
            GET PROPERTY OF ocharacters 'count' = char_count.
            char_position = 0.
            old_search_string = search.
          ENDIF.
        set range now
         IF char_position >= char_count.
            char_position = 0.
          ENDIF.
                CALL METHOD OF document_cntl_handle-obj 'Range' = orange
          EXPORTING #1 = char_position #2 = char_count.
        search now
          GET PROPERTY OF orange 'Find' = ofind.
          IF not replace is initial.
           DATA: is_available type i.
           CALL METHOD proxy->has_wordprocessor_interface
               IMPORTING is_available = is_available
                         retcode      = retcode.
           IF is_available = 1 .
              CALL METHOD proxy->get_wordprocessor_interface
                           IMPORTING wp_interface = wp_ref
                                     retcode = retcode.
               IF RETCODE EQ C_OI_ERRORS=>RET_OK.
                  CALL METHOD wp_ref->replace
                           EXPORTING replace_string = replace
                                     search_string  = search
                                     pos            = 'GLOBAL'
                                     flag           = 'ALL'.
                ENDIF.
            ENDIF.
                  ELSE.
    *search
            CALL METHOD OF ofind 'Execute'
              EXPORTING  #1 = search       "FindText
                         #2 = false        "MatchCase
                         #3 = false        "MatchWholeWord
                         #4 = false        "MatchWildCards
                         #5 = false        "MatchSoundsLike
                         #6 = true         "MatchAllWordForms
                         #7 = true         "Forward
                         #8 = '1'          "Wrap
                         #9 = true.
            GET PROPERTY OF ofind 'Found' = string_found.
            IF string_found > 0.
              GET PROPERTY OF orange 'Font' = ofont.
              GET PROPERTY OF ofont 'ColorIndex' = color_index.
              IF color_index ne 6.
                color_index = 6.
              ELSE.
                color_index = 11.
              ENDIF.
              SET PROPERTY OF ofont 'ColorIndex' = color_index.
            ENDIF.
            GET PROPERTY OF orange 'End' = char_position.
          ENDIF.

  • Just bought an iPad 2 and plugged it in to my home PC and downloaded apps using my wife's iTunes account.  I then set up my own iTunes account on my  office PC, and none of the apps I downloaded in the new account appear on my iPad.

    I just bought an iPad 2 - I plugged it in to my home PC and downloaded a couple of apps using my wife's iTunes account.  Since I bought the device for work, I then set up my own iTunes account on my office PC.  The problem I am having is that none of the apps I downloaded in the new account appear on my iPad.  I can see them on screen #2 in iTunes and I know how to swipe to get to that screen.
    I've tried everything mentioned - I authorized my office computer (but not my home one - could this be the problem?).  I turned on home network file sharing.  Checked to make sure parental controls are off.  I'm not sure what to do next.

    When you installed iTunes on your work computer, then connected your iPad to that computer, it wiped what was on the iPad, then put the iTunes library (nothing) from the work computer onto the iPad. You can try copying the iTunes folder from your home computer over to your work computer, but since the apps were bought with a different account, they may not load or update properly.

  • Known Issues with Session Vars and non-IE browsers?

    Are there any known issues with non-Internet Explorer
    browsers storing or reading session variables. Or loops and
    ListGetAt functions? I'm using CF 5.
    The code works fine in IE, but not in FireFox or Netscape.
    Thanks,
    Josh

    This testing will not really address any cross domain issues, due to the content being hosted by ScormCloud.
    What I found interesting, is that in ScormCloud, using the links below, my results were opposite those that I obtained through my LMS.
    In LMS, Captivate 5 worked, Captivate 6 did not in IE8, both worked in FF
    In ScormCloud, Captivate 5 did not work in IE8, but worked in FF, and Captivate 6 did work in FF and IE8.
    Here are the links:
    captivate 5 http://cloud.scorm.com/sc/InvitationConfirmEmail?publicInvitationId=3c04f298-d0db-4d10-ab6 3-80b9aaf2890b
    captivate 6 http://cloud.scorm.com/sc/InvitationConfirmEmail?publicInvitationId=e2b05753-2f03-421a-87d 9-62b92ad199af
    Thanks for your attention, every bit of information that I can get will help.
    Thanks,
    SL

  • Integreated Versus Non integreated system of accounting

    Hello experts
    I want to know whether integreated and non integreated system of accounting can be followed concurrently in SAP.
    that is to have the separate system for cost accouting and financial accouting and to have the separate trial balance as per cost accouting and financial accounting. is it possible?
    Basically because of the inherent differences in these two types of accouting, there will be different profits .
    Hence i want to know whether it is possible to have the different trial balance as per these two systems?

    Within SAP you can produce a P&L statement both in FI (finance) and CO (controlling).  Trial balance exists in FI.  The answer to your question is yes.  

  • About integration between SAP and non-SAP applications via javaidoc classes

    Hi,All
    Now we are implementing a SAP-Retail project,we encounter a problem of integration between SAP and non-SAP applications(POS),we want to set Inbound/Outbound between SAP and POS applications realtimely,POS can connect to the SAP system via VPN,weather it can be implemented?
    I conceive to implement it with SAP Java Connector IDoc Class,I don't know weather it is the best solution?If not,please give some other proposal.
    I have download the classes from SAP website and try it with the samples provided by SAP(JCoIDocSample1.java/JCoIDocSample3.java),In my testing,Inbound is succeed,but,in SAP-Retail IS,standard Outbound message type is defined via file port,some one told me that SAP Java Connector IDoc Class can only receive idocs from tRFC port?is it true?If not,please tell me how to deploy in SAP so java program can receive idocs from file port?

    We too are interested in finding information on integration between SAP and Intergraph.  Were you able to obtain information and I was wondering if could share this with us.
    Thanks,
    Sue
    City of Edmonton

  • Integration of SAP XI and none SAP tools

    Hi!
    I would like to start working with SAP XI.
    Where can I find the Step by Step case studies describing different SAP XI scenarios (IDOC/ALE, RFC, File, etc.).
    What is the most famous example of integration of SAP XI and none SAP tools?
    Are there tool free of charge and can be downloaded?
    Thank you very much!
    regards
    Axel Schulze

    Axel Schulze wrote:
    > Where can I find the Step by Step case studies describing different SAP XI scenarios (IDOC/ALE, RFC, File, etc.).
    /people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i
    /people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/26/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-ii
    /people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii
    thats sud be a good start !!!

  • Integrating OLAP Universe and Non OLAP Universe

    Hi Experts,
    I am facing a problem in integrating an OLAP universe and a universe on two dimensional database. Let me explain the scenario:
    I have one BW query which gives plants A, B and C sales details. I have one more database (SQL Server), which gives plants D and E sales details. The requirement is to show all the plants (A, B, C, D and E) sales in Xcelsius Dashboard. For this i followed the below approach:
    1. To bring SAP plants data, i created universe on BW Query (OLAP Universe)
    2. Created universe on SQL Server tables to bring Non-SAP plants data. (General Universe)
    Now my doubt is, is there any approach or functionality to join or merge these two universes (OLAP and Non-OLAP). I think we can merge Non-OLAP universes. If this is not possible then what is the best approach.
    Can anyone help me on this.
    Thanks & Regards
    Ramakrishna Kamurthy

    Hi,
    I n order to merge prompts in Web Intelligence query panel, they must be identoical: same question, same datatype.
    But you have to pay attention to the fact that only one list of values will be used for the twio data sources.
    So it the two data sources have different keys (or tecnnical names in SAP) then one query will work and the other not.
    Again if you try to synchronize those two data providers in WebI you will hit the same issues: keys and caption might be  different.
    So I suggest to do some SQL transformation on the relational universe to match keys and captions in SAP BW data source.
    I recommend this because SAP BW does not support custom calculations that return string or dates: only numeric values are supported.
    So in that case if you are sure that keys and captions will be identical in the two sources you will be able to merge prompts and synchronize both sources.
    Regards,
    Didier

  • MS Office integration for Tx. solar01 and solar02

    Hi!
    I have tested the MS Office integration via sa38. It seems to work.
    BUT: I cannot open and edit any MS Office documents via Tr. solar01 and solar02.
    I have applied different roles to the current user (e.g SAP_SOL_ROCOML).
    But it is not possible to edit MS Office document.
    According "Configuration Guide" it should either MS Office 2000 or 2002.
    I have installed MS Office 2003. 
    <b>Do this play some role?
    Can some give any useful information?</b>
    thank you
    regards

    Hi!
    Yes, also the word settings are ok
    I guess I have not protect the document.
    You mean: MS WORD (DE): Extras (Menu) --> Optionen (Options) --> Sicherheit (Security)  --> Dokument schützen (Protect document)
    I think it should be a problem on the SAP level (authorizations or settings)
    It would be great to get the solution. I am waiting for the answer for two days here.
    Thank you very much
    regards

  • I have a MacBook Pro (purchased in 2011) with OS X Lion 10.7.4.  I'm using Microsoft Office 2011 and cannot open older PowerPoint Files (non .pptx). It will always open the same .pptx file and then the machine hangs up and just keeps spinning.

    I have a MacBook Pro (purchased in 2011) with OS X Lion 10.7.4.  I'm using Microsoft Office 2011 and cannot open older PowerPoint Files (non .pptx). It will always open the same .pptx file and then the machine hangs up and just keeps spinning.

    Thank you - that all makes sense. It is, indeed, exactly what I did when I upgraded.
    I'm also writing this on the machine that crashed a few minutes ago (I posted the crash in another thread). I got back with a 'safe boot' - as I have done a few times before.
    I've also de-installed little snitch (and then done a safe-boot & then re-boot ) since that seemed involved. I de-installed Adobe flash, since that seemed to be a problem - I then re-installed the later, apparently fixed, flash. The most recent crashes don't seeme to have a problem with flash any more.
    I've posted the various ( generally different ) crashes. I also posted a summary of the similar lines that turn up in most of the crashes.
    Unfortuantely, I'm actually trying to use the machine to meet some urgent deadlines and all this is not making it at all easy.
    I had had great hopes for 10.7.2 - I thought that the crashes must be pretty common, so would have a common aetiology. There do seem to have been some fundamental changes to the file sytem and to the video interface (that seems to cause problems to brand new iMacs as well as to my 2009 iMac).

  • I need help integrating Microsoft Office, Outlook and Calendar with my job and is it possible

    Ok guys I am new to the iphone 4s. I just dumped my Blackberry after 10 years. I need help integrating Microsoft Office, Outlook and Calendar with my job and is it possible? Also I need it to automatically push email and appointments to my phone? I will buy any app just need to know which is best for work environment. Here is what I am thinking about doing. http://www.groovypost.com/howto/apple/sync-iphone-or-ipod-touch-calendar-and-con tacts-with-google/ Is this the best way? For personal use I am using paid G whiz app

    I use Google Calendar Sync to sync my work Outlook calendar to a gmail account, then sync that to my iPhone.  It works well for me for the past couple of years.
    As far as mail itself, just ask your it folks for settings for remote access to your exchange account, and then set it up on the phone.
    As far as working with Office docs, to be able to actually edit them and such, look in the app store for DocsToGo or QuickOffice - they both are good but each has it's pros and cons, so on balance it's down to mere preference i think.

  • WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

    I thought that there was a thread floating around about this, but I couldn't seem to find it...
    I need to learn Access in a hurry, so I installed MS Office 2003 on my 64 bit workstation. Everything seems to working alright, but the fonts look like crap. Does anyone have any advice?
    --EDIT--
    before anyone asks, this is my entire 32 bit set up. It will run WINE, Skype, Flash through nspluginwrapper, and Lightscribe:
    lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.16-1
    lib32-atk 1.22.0-1
    lib32-cairo 1.6.4-1.1
    lib32-e2fsprogs 1.40.8-1
    lib32-expat 2.0.1-1.1
    lib32-fontconfig 2.6.0-2
    lib32-freetype2 2.3.7-1
    lib32-gcc-libs 4.3.1-1
    lib32-glib2 2.16.4-1
    lib32-glibc 2.8-2
    lib32-gnutls 2.0.4-2
    lib32-gtk2 2.12.11-1
    lib32-libcups 1.3.7-1
    lib32-libdrm 2.3.0-1
    lib32-libgcrypt 1.4.1-1
    lib32-libgpg-error 1.6-1.1
    lib32-libice 1.0.4-1
    lib32-libjpeg 6b-4
    lib32-libpng 1.2.29-1
    lib32-libsm 1.1.0-1
    lib32-libstdc++5 3.3.6-3
    lib32-libtasn1 1.4-1
    lib32-libtiff 3.8.2-3
    lib32-libx11 1.1.4-2
    lib32-libxau 1.0.3-1
    lib32-libxcb 1.1-1
    lib32-libxcomposite 0.4.0-1
    lib32-libxcursor 1.1.9-1
    lib32-libxdamage 1.1.1-1.1
    lib32-libxdmcp 1.0.2-1
    lib32-libxext 1.0.4-1
    lib32-libxfixes 4.0.3-1
    lib32-libxft 2.1.13-1
    lib32-libxi 1.1.3-1
    lib32-libxinerama 1.0.3-1
    lib32-libxml2 2.6.32-1
    lib32-libxmu 1.0.4-1
    lib32-libxrandr 1.2.3-1
    lib32-libxrender 0.9.4-1
    lib32-libxslt 1.1.24-1
    lib32-libxss 1.1.1-1
    lib32-libxt 1.0.5-1
    lib32-libxv 1.0.3-1
    lib32-libxxf86vm 1.0.2-1
    lib32-lzo2 2.02-3.1
    lib32-mesa 7.0.3-2
    lib32-ncurses 5.6-6.1
    lib32-nvidia-utils 173.14.09-1
    lib32-opencdk 0.6.6-1.1
    lib32-pango 1.20.5-1
    lib32-pcre 7.7-1
    lib32-pixman 0.10.0-1
    lib32-readline 5.2-7
    lib32-zlib 1.2.3-4.1
    Last edited by skottish (2008-07-08 20:22:07)

    skottish wrote:isn't helping because the fonts it want are already here.
    Oh, your after some font anti-aliasing? If so you could pick non M$ fonts in winecfg>Desktop Integration and probably need to change some in M$ Office preferences aswell.
    skottish wrote:The fact that I even need Office is bothersome....
    I can imagine.

  • OWA Calendar not showing month view in non-IE browsers

    I've got a user who can't see the Month view on his OWA calendar. He's the only user complaining - Month view loads fine on my Exchange account across all browsers and operating systems.
    I can see the Month view on his account when I log in with IE, but not with any other browser, Windows and Mac.
    Any ideas? I'm at a total loss here, I've been in and deleted recurring appointments, but nothing else looks out of the ordinary. Everything else works, it just won't load the month view in non-IE browsers and he's the only one affected.
    Any clues appreciated, thank you!

    Hi, 
    The Microsoft OWA web interface has two versions: OWA Premium and OWA Light. OWA Premium which can achieve calendar month view is only accessible when using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. 
    If you’re using any other browser, we can use OWA Light. In light version, the OWA feature is not rich like OWA Premium. As for Calendar view, there is only daily view in OWA light.
    About Calendar view in third-party browser, please contact the third-party browser support for more helps.
    About Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007, please refer to:
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/09/13/3394870.aspx
    Thanks,
    Winnie

  • Is it time yet for Microsoft to "Recall" Office 2013 and provide anyone who has a 2013 license a replacement Office 2010 license?

    The interface is terrible and can't be changed.  Every application in the suite locks up/crashes nearly constantly on any machine it is used on.  The activation process is terrible and wastes hours of any support/IT dept's time.  From a 'privacy
    standpoint', the software is seemingly criminally intrusive.  It is clearly a product that should never have been released and is so far from functional that it can't be repaired by any 'service pack', 'hotfix', or 'patch'.  It needs to be completely
    scrapped.
    The only 'redeeming quality' of this software is that the guy who was in charge of creating it is gone from Microsoft.  (Unfortunately, he is now President Obama's appointee for running the attempt at repairing the 'healthcare.gov' website... 
    out of the frying pan...   )
    When the software is installed using one profile (domain or machine account) and a different profile tries to use the software, it requires 're-activation' - which often fails because the software believes it has been installed multiple times. (This is particularly
    frustrating because it has to be installed by an administrative user, but most of the time, the person who 'uses' the software is not the 'administrator' - so it is almost always being 'installed' using one profile and 'used' using another profile).
    The necessary intrusion into privacy created by the requirement of a "Microsoft Account" to use the software is seemingly criminal.
    The tracking of, and installation of licenses is absolutely ridiculous. 
    An example: 
    Many of my clients have many users and many computers (up to 75 or so). 
    I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'user', but these machines get moved between users, and the software license is tied to the 'machine' and not to the 'user' so as soon as that happens, the licenses and the users are no longer
    in line and become impossible to track.
    I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'computer'... and I can't even count the ways this would be a nightmare to try to track.
    I actually did that up front for one client, and created Exchange email boxes for each computer so that "prove you are really you" emails from Microsoft could be received managed, and responded to, and passed out second usernames and passwords
    to all of the users so they could "log-in" to their Office 2013 software, and created a database of the 'computer usernames and passwords' so I could track this... unfortunately, this confused the users (as it rightfully should) so they would change
    the passwords for their computer's 'Microsoft User Account' thus locking me out and invalidating my database, ... and... CLUSTERF#%K!!!
    As a 'best - worst case', I have had to create a single 'Microsoft User Account" for each of my clients' businesses so I can install and activate Office 2013 products.  This is a whole new set of "Awesome Stupidity". 
    Now, I can put a new computer into a client's office and install their new license key for their oem Office 2013, and it shows up in the 'business's Microsoft User Account'.  Then when I give the machine to the user, I get to 're-activate' the software
    (hoping that it doesn't tell me to piss-off - which happens about 40% of the time.  This is a process that can only be described as a "feat of engineering created by a group of monkeys whose former jobs included 'janitor at MAD magazine headquarters'
    or 'beer-pong referee'). 
    It starts with two hours of pressing phone buttons and ultimately talking to someone who tells me "yeah, nothin' I can do about that I'm just here for product activation" (which, incidentally, is done by machine until you pass through MS's ridiculous
    labyrinth of repetitious keystroking until the machine is convinced you are just too stupid to punch in the right numbers and allows you to talk to a person... who then asks you for the exact same set of numbers and repeats back the exact same responding set
    of numbers and acts dumbfounded when it still doesn't work - since it didn't work the first six times you punched or said it into the phone) followed by "I need to send you to the support group... but because it's 6:30 pm (in a process you started at
    3:00pm) they are gone for the day and you'll have to call back on Monday morning"
    At some point in the process, you get to log into the "Microsoft user account" and 'roll the roulette wheel of stupidity' by trying to activate the right software from a list of 40 different lines that all say "Microsoft Office 2013 Home and
    Business oem", but none give any indicator or differentiating factor like for instance: license key, date installed, license key last 4 digits, mother's maiden name, phase of moon when software was first activated, color or type of blood of the user's
    paperboy's dog's previous owner... NOTHING... RANDOM FREAKING STAB IN THE DARK - pick one, any one, hope its the license you are trying to install onto this machine, 'cause if not, you very well may kill the product on some other machine.
    So through the process, the lucky support staff person gets' to waste roughly an hour and a half on average for every Microsoft Office 2013 installation.  I have actually had to start telling my clients that they are going to likely have to pay an extra
    $100 or so per machine in order to get their new Microsoft Office software which comes on their new computer activated - that number tends to work out roughly accurately - except that it is a terrible way of trying to 'please a client'.
    Oh,... and did I mention... "THE SOFTWARE CONSISTANTLY FAILS"!?! 
    A client tries to open a document that they have been using for 8 years and Excel doesn't say "Hey, I don't know how to deal with some element of the file that you put in here using Excel 2003, or Office 2010 (both products, by the way, which worked
    great) - no... instead,... it crashes.  Doesn't really do any damage to the file it choked on, but the work you'd been doing on three other files which you also had open,... yeah,... that work is gone.
    Yeah,.... over time, I have developed a pretty consistent spiel for client's needing new computers that goes over how absolutely terrible Office 2013 is, and explains that our options are further limited by Microsoft's yanking of all Office 2010 or previous
    products from market availability, and explaining the merits of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice, as well as their drawbacks.  I also have a strangely static response explaining how "larger companies are not burdened by these issues because they are
    able to use MOPL which allows them to downgrade their productivity software to Office 2010 so they can continue to function happily, but this is really not a cost effective solution for smaller companies who primarily buy oem Office products with their replacement
    computers".
    Unfortunately, many clients still decide they want to go with Office 2013 because they apparently believe "it really can't be that bad".  The value in my 'presale descriptions' are only really realized when they come back to me a week, two
    weeks, or up to a month after the new machine is in place and say "wow,... you were right".  The place I am left open for any further problems is when I don't impress upon them beforehand just HOW BAD OFFICE 2013 REALLY IS.  In that case,
    they still come back to me as though I have done something wrong foe selling them this piece of $#!% software and I have to remind them of our previous discussions.
    Strangely, far too few heed the warnings and buy the software anyway - but the discussion has saved many clients the costs of Microsoft Project, because the discussion of LibreOffice and OpenOffice nearly always leads to at least a small philosophical conversation
    about 'Open Source Software' in general, and my absolute favorite descriptive analogy in that discussion is to compare Microsoft Project at $600 v. ProjectLibre at $0 - and then further describe the costs of licensing and implementing the associated back-end
    server solutions, etc. 
    This is a saving grace for me, because even though the client has been saddled with Office 2013, they have also saved substantially on Project and it is a rare (but granted, not absolutely absent) occasion that ProjectLibre is lacking some feature or function
    that they actually need or want to use - and on those occasions, finding out has cost them absolutely nothing in software purchases. 
    Its not surprising, I suppose, that clients have grown to accept Office as a required 'cost', but still choke heavily on the price-tag of Project every time they have to buy it.  The interesting thing to watch over the coming couple of years will be
    'how many businesses stop accepting MS Office as a 'required cost' due to the failing of the software itself and the fact that most are being burned, at least once, by purchasing the software "against technical advice" and are learning, merely by
    virtue of HOW BAD Office is, that there are other options out there that both cost less and work better... I mean,... LOTS BETTER.
    How many businesses that are used to accepting the cost of Microsoft Office as a cost of doing business will be moved over to open source options and satisfied by them by the time Microsoft releases its next version - which will, presumably work - such that
    they will no longer justify the cost of Microsoft's offering even if it is 'superior' to the open source offerings because the open source offerings are plenty sufficient and include a price tag of $0 and an installation/implementation time that is much, much
    shorter than Microsoft's offering.
    If Microsoft doesn't make some dramatic reparations, and do it soon, I expect their market share will be reduced in this area by a very significant margin.
    I am suggesting either a 'Complete Recall' of Office 2013 including an 'uninstall 2013/install 2010' process driven by the automatic update engine, or at the very least, a free and easy downgrade rights offering for anybody who has already purchased 2013
    and anyone who purchases it between now and the time the next "functional product" is released.

    I understand the inconvenience you are experiencing when working with Office 2013.
    If you have any feedback about Office 2013 product, click the and submit to Microsoft.
    Microsoft will decide how to fix the problem for all customers.
    For the activation mechanism, it intends to protect customers of their rights and interests.
    For a retail version of Office, if it was purchased with a disk, Microsoft account is not necessary during the installation.
    For volume license of Office, refer to the following link to deploy Office suites can be much efficient:
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178982.aspx
    For the problem Office 2013 keep crashing, check the following link to check:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813143/en-us
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2758592/en-us
    Thanks,
    Tyor Wang
    Forum Support
    Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no
    help.
    If you have any feedback on our support, please click
    here

Maybe you are looking for