You plan to implement a collaboration platform for a company. All 1,000 employees currently use Excel 2010.
You have the following requirements:
-All employees must be able to co-author Excel workbooks.
-You must minimize the costs associated with any solution.
You need to recommend a solution.
Which solution should you recommend?
A.
Implement SharePoint 2013 with Excel Services.
B.
Implement SharePoint 2013 and continue using Excel 2010.
C.
Implement SharePoint Online and upgrade clients to Excel 2013.
D.
Implement SharePoint 2013 with an Office Web Apps server.
Explanation:
Excel services consists of three components: Excel Calculation Services, Excel Web Access, and Excel Web
Services.
Excel Web Access allows for co-authoring of Excel workbooks.
Incorrect Answers:
B: To be able to co-author Excel workbooks we would need either Excel Web App or Office Web Apps.
C: Upgrading to Excel 2013 would not help. To be able to co-author Excel workbooks we would need either
Excel Web App or Office Web Apps.
D: Co-author can implemented through an Office Web Apps Server, but it would not minimize the cost.
If you are using SharePoint Online or have SharePoint 2013 configured to use Office Web Apps Server, users
can co-author documents in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote Web Apps. Howeverhttps://blogs.office.com/2013/11/19/real-time-co-authoring-in-the-excel-web-app-why-and-how-we-did-it/
Excel Services with Excel Web Access not allow for co-authoring.
The correct answer is D, because Excel 2010, Excel 2013 and Excel Services not allow you to use co-authoring. It must to be Office Web Apps.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Getting-Started-with-Excel-Services-and-Excel-Web-Access-fed3586d-b150-4819-a67e-14529c974387
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A is wrong
(https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2420652c-cd2e-4cea-849e-ada6a53f9ebb/coauthoring-excel-document-in-sharepoint-2013-using-excel-services-only?forum=sharepointgeneral)
D is correct.
The Excel 2013 client application does not support co-authoring workbooks in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online. But, the Excel client application uses the Shared Workbook feature to support non-real-time co-authoring workbooks that are stored locally or on network (UNC) paths. Co-authoring workbooks in SharePoint is supported by using the Excel Web App, which is included with Office Web Apps.
(https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718249.aspx)
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Office version SP2013 w/OWA Server SharePoint Online SP2010 w/OWA enabled
Excel 2013 No No No
Excel Web App Yes Yes Yes
Excel 2010 No No No
from: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718249.aspx#Software version requirements for co-authoring in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online
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After reading the articles Tester & Johnstone mentions I’d have to agree the answer is D:
The article Tester provided nowhere mentions that Excel services does coauthoring.
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