Configuring Microsoft 365 Online

For information regarding MS Office Online, you should refer to our general guide here.

This guides covers how to enable and configure the MS Office Online integration.

In order for the Microsoft 365 Online integration to work, the following requirements must be met.

• Your appliance must accept public inbound / ingress connections to HTTPS (port 443).
• A dns name for the Access Anywhere server to resolve to that HTTPS endpoint
• A valid commercial CA signed SSL certificate that matches the public dns name
• Your appliance must be able to make outbound / egress connections to Microsoft 365 Online service
• Access to the Appliance Admin 'appladmin' account

To enable MS Office Online, you will first need to login to the 'appladmin' account of your Access Anywhere instance.

From the Hamburger Menu, select User Packages.

MS Office Online is made available to your Access Anywhere users via the Packages.

From the User Packages screen, find the package that you wish to make the feature available to, and click on the edit pencil on the right-hand side.

From the Functionality Options section, ensure the MS Office Online option is ticked. Then, save the changes to the package.

Now, MS Office Online will be made available to your Access Anywhere users.

To verify this, you should login as an Organisation Account on your Access Anywhere. Navigate to Organization > Policies and under User Interface you should tick the MS Office Online Editor option under FM allowed viewing/editing options.

You will now be able to edit documents with MS Office Online. You should refer to our general guide for more details.

As the MS Office Online is a publicly hosted service offered by Microsoft, any files that are opened for Edit by MS Office Online will be sent to the MS Office Online service. Only the requested files are sent, and they are delivered through secure https encrypted connections.

Due to domain restrictions imposed by MS Office Online, communications between MS Office Online and your hosted Access Anywhere, passes through Access Anywhere's WOPI Proxy service. This proxy is completely transparent and does not require any configuration to use. The proxy stores no state and does not have any access to the data which is SSL TLS encrypted.

NAA provides two WOPI Proxy services; one located within the US data-center, and another located within the EU data-center.