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Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office

The Office HTML Viewer server provides support for users who want to view the content of files in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services document libraries, but do not have Word, Excel, or PowerPoint from Office 97, or a newer release of Office, installed on their local computer.

This is a free download from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c62e0232-9bf6-48fc-829e-5c34d5c8b15f&displaylang=en

Dedicate a server to the Html Viewer Server.  Once you have it installed, go to Central Administration > Operations > External Service Connections > Html Viewer and configure MOSS to use the server.

Enter the url of the Html Viewer server and check the box "Allow HTML viewing."

 

Posted 07-13-2007 9:42 AM by John Powell, PMP, MCPD, MCSD

Comments

Jan wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 07-24-2007 11:50 AM

When I follow the link you provided I get an error page: "The download you requested is unavailable. If you continue to see this message when trying to access this download, go to the "Search for a Download" area on the Download Center home page."

I can't find it anywhere else. Any hints?

John Powell, PMP, MCPD, MCSD wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 07-24-2007 1:29 PM

The download appears to be currently unvailable.  Not sure if it's a temporary issue or not.

Jan wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 07-24-2007 5:11 PM

After some googling, I think this might be the reason why: blog.hametbenoit.info/.../Post.aspx

khan wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 10-26-2007 7:21 AM

an y destriped me

khan wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 10-26-2007 7:21 AM

make his sim off

Paul wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 12-06-2007 2:33 PM

Yeah, I'm beginning to believe that this product and service doesn't exist.   I can  find oodles of webpages (non microsoft) saying "go here!  Download, install... ENJOY!" and to the last effing one, none of the links work.  I'm about to give up.

g wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 03-28-2008 6:58 PM

you should - it's dead.

Dave wrote re: Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
on 06-29-2008 3:59 AM

More likely they want people to buy office 2007,  MOSS 07 seems to have a lot of features that are poorly developed, document managment, version control that saves a full copy of every change and packs it all into a SQL database.  I cannot believe that they would actualy put something in a product that would be unavailable for download.  Typical Microsoft again.

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