Hello,

The question I have is can a current versions of MS Office and old versions of MS Office be accessed on separate servers?  Essentially, if MS Office components are used in an application development (excel, word etc.) be called from a different server.  We want to address the problem of having to install MS Office on all servers that require components.  

Thank you for your time in answering my question.

Jerry Castro

• Edited by Jstromiles Tuesday, June 23, 2015 11:11 PM
• Moved by Cindy Meister MVPMVP 16 hours 3 minutes ago not developer-related

Hi Jerry

Could you please provide more details about your scenario? I'm not sure I understand what it is you're describing and what you're asking...

Automation/Interop code should be built against the oldest version of Office it will work with and, barring any changes in the underlying technology, will work with later versions.

If you're using .NET and PIAs things can be a bit more complicated than that, however.

Hi Cindy,

let me rephrase my question? Is it possible to install Microsoft Office on a Windows server and using it simultaneously by several users connected by remote desktop connection? or The question is can current versions of MS Office and old versions of MS Office be accessed on separate servers? 

you can read an article i found below:

I was thinking about research like this: http://superuser.com/questions/769947/can-we-install-microsoft-office-on-a-windows-server-for-simultaneous-multi-user

can this be done?

Thank you.

Jerry Castro

Hi Jerry Castro,

>>Is it possible to install Microsoft Office on a Windows server and using it simultaneously by several users connected by remote desktop connection? or The question is can current versions of MS Office and old versions of MS Office be accessed on separate servers? <<

Did you want to create an object on the remote server? If I understood correctly, yes, we can create an object via using code below:

CreateObject("Excel.Application", "\\MyServer")

You can get more detail about this function from link below:
CreateObject Function (Visual Basic)

Regards & Fei

Hi Jerry

You've asked this question in a programming forum, which isn't optimal :-) The better place would be the TechNet IT PRo forum and I'll move the question there.

Hi Jerry,

Based on your question >>Is it possible to install Microsoft Office on a Windows server and using it simultaneously by several users connected by remote desktop connection<<, the link you provied had answered your question, you can set up a Terminal Server and install Office for all users.

About how to set up Terminal Server, please refer to this article:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754288%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

I'm not very understand this sentence >>The question is can current versions of MS Office and old versions of MS Office be accessed on separate servers<<. And I'm not sure if the links above is you needed, please check if they work for you.

If your requirement is different, please be a bit more precise explain your requirement so that I can get more accurate solutions to this problem.

Im glad to help and follow up your reply.

Regards,

Emi Zhang
TechNet Community Su