Office on Base, Visio in AppStack

[jhol5]

Is it not possible to have the base Office suite (word, excel, outlook, ect.) on the base image and have Visio/Project in a AppStack?

I'm trying with Office 2019 on the base image and I've tried both 2016 and 2019 visio/project.

I can install them when I'm not capturing the installs, but when I do try to capture them it fails.

[cliffvmwareeuc]

What software is installed on your provisioning/capture VM?

[jhol5]

You mean other than the base Office suite? Some printer drivers.

[Anobix67]

I had tried that previously (but with 2016 Office). I ran into it constantly causing Office applications reconfiguring on first launch. I ended up just building it into my template. I imagine it was some mismatch of office update versions between the template, the AppVolCapture box, and the Visio install.

[cliffvmwareeuc]

Could you open a case for this as this type of issue while somewhat common can be very difficult to diagnose.

It will require the review of a few files that will be present on the provisioning VM during capture and also on a VM created from the base image with a volume attached.

There will also be Agent log analysis required from the provisioning VM and the end user VM's

[Natestack]

Any updates on this.

My organisation is looking at 64bit Office2019 and currently VDI cant till we get Visio/Project going.

Thanks,

[jhol5]

I ended up just including Visio and Project in the base image and deleted the short cuts. Those who need it we add those short cuts back using DEM

[jhol5]

Hit post too soon.

VMware support ended up just tell me that 2019 still isn't supported yet.

[Natestack]

Just FYI.

If a user sends a Visio/Project document or access it from group drive clearly it will open with visio/project and you may be in breach as all your users are licensed even if they not.

No reason for a user to request Visio/Project as it will auto open with visio/project anyway.

just fyi