Installing and configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support offers Microsoft users greater choice by providing a fully-compatible SharePoint repository that allows the Microsoft Office Suite applications (for example, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to interact with SkyVault as if it was SharePoint.

This enables your users to leverage the SkyVault repository directly from Microsoft Office.

You can also use Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support to enable online editing for Office documents within SkyVault Share. It enables your users to modify Office files without checking them in and out. SkyVault locks the file while it is being modified and releases the lock when the file is saved and closed.

The following diagram shows the architecture of the SharePoint Protocol Support in relation to an SkyVault installation.

Note: Microsoft Office 2010 onwards doesn't include a Document Management panel for working with the SkyVault repository from Microsoft Office, but you can still use the online editing feature in SkyVault. You can reopen documents stored in SkyVault by clicking File then Recent in a Microsoft Office program and selecting the document.

The SharePoint Protocol Support architecture embeds a Jetty web server within the SkyVault repository. The Microsoft Office clients communicate directly with the Jetty server using WebDAV-like calls with proprietary extensions and on different port number from SkyVault Share. This port number can be configured in the SharePoint Protocol Support properties files.

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Installing and configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support