MicroStrategy ONE

How to Allow Users to Install MicroStrategy Office

This information applies to the legacy MicroStrategy Office add-in, the add‑in for Microsoft Office applications which is no longer actively developed.

It was substituted with a new add‑in, MicroStrategy for Office, which supports Office 365 applications. The initial version does not yet have all the functionalities of the previous add‑in.

If you are using MicroStrategy 2021 Update 2 or a later version, the legacy MicroStrategy Office add-in cannot be installed from Web.;

For more information, see the MicroStrategy for Office page in the Readme and the MicroStrategy for Office Help.

You can determine whether MicroStrategy Web users can install MicroStrategy Office from the Web interface. To do so, you must designate the installation directory path to MicroStrategy Office. This is the location from which users will be able to obtain the latest version of MicroStrategy Office. You can also determine whether or not a link to Office installation steps appears in the Web interface.

  1. Access the Web Administrator page. (How?)

  2. From the pane on the left, select Other Configuration. The Other Configuration page opens.

  3. In the Path to MicroStrategy Office configuration field, enter the base URL of your MicroStrategy Web Services machine, for example: http://server:port/Web_Services_virtual_directory/Office. This is the location from which users can install MicroStrategy Office from MicroStrategy Web.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • To display the MicroStrategy Office Installation page is displayed in the currently defined language in Web, select the Automatically append locale-specific path checkbox. MicroStrategy Web automatically attaches /Lang_xxxx/officeinstall.htm to the end of the URL, where Lang_xxxx refers to the currently defined language in Web. This option is useful if you have users using translated interfaces. For example, if the language in Web is set to German, a completed URL may be displayed as follows: http://localhost/MicroStrategyWS/Office/Lang_1031/officeinstall.htm.

    • To display the MicroStrategy Office Installation page in English, clear the Automatically append locale-specific path checkbox.

  5. Test the URL path by clicking Go. If the path you specified is correct, the MicroStrategy Office Installation page is displayed in the appropriate language.

  6. Click your browser's Back button to return to the Other Configuration page.

  7. Select the Show link to installation page for all users on the Projects and Login pages to ensure that an "Install MicroStrategy Office" links appears on Web users' project list and login pages. When a user clicks this link, a page opens with instructions to install MicroStrategy Office.

  8. Click Save.