In Office 365, users have the ability to create and edit documents with the Office Online apps. To enable a corresponding feature on-premises, you need to deploy an Office Online (also known as Office Web Apps) server. Office Online Server is only available through the Volume Licensing Service Center.
In the next few sections, we'll review the prerequisites for installing Office Online Server, as well as configuring it.
Configuring the prerequisites for Office Online Server
Office Online Server has a number of requirements that must be met prior to installation:
- Windows Server 2012 R2 or later.
- Internet Information Services 7.0 or higher with ASP.NET v4.0.
- .NET Framework 4.5.2: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=510096.
- Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013: https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=40784.
- Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId...
