An important piece of news was included in all the Sharepoint development announcements. Recently, Microsoft announced the second major update to Office Online Server (OOS). Now for those who don’t know what Office Online Server is? Microsoft Office Online Server released in 2016 is the next version of Office Web Apps server which allows the businesses host their own word, excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps.
What’s new in the first significant update of Office Online Server?
Whether you have a team of 100 employees or 100,000, the architecture of OOS is meant to serve multiple SharePoint, exchange and skype for business instances. Apart from this, most of new office online features can be downloaded by SharePoint developers through regular updates.
The key features included in the latest update are:-
Keep watching the space to know more regarding Office Online server and SharePoint development in UK.
What’s new in the first significant update of Office Online Server?
Whether you have a team of 100 employees or 100,000, the architecture of OOS is meant to serve multiple SharePoint, exchange and skype for business instances. Apart from this, most of new office online features can be downloaded by SharePoint developers through regular updates.
The key features included in the latest update are:-
- Performance improvements to co-authoring in Word online
- Support for embedded power view sheets in excel online
- Improvements when working with tables in Word and power point online including better drag and drop support.
- Support for showing spelling errors especially in the PowerPoint editor
- Picture resizing in Word online becomes easy
- Copy and paste improvements in PowerPoint online
- Supports for shapes in Excel online viewer
- Last but certainly not the least, significant improvements for users that rely on assistive technologies—HTML markup updated to more fully support W3C accessibility standards.
Keep watching the space to know more regarding Office Online server and SharePoint development in UK.