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Rimvydas Velykis's avatar
Rimvydas Velykis
Brass Contributor
Jan 05, 2017

Visio for O365 and Office Standart 2016

One of my clients has Office Standard 2016 instalation and now they bought Visio for Office 365 licences. Is there any way for these software versions to run together? 

 

Now client is receiving this error message:

 

Any ideas welcome. ODT didn't help.

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  • Cian Allner's avatar
    Cian Allner
    Silver Contributor
    Jan 05, 2017

    Office Standard 2016 (MSI) and Visio for Office 365 (2016 - Click-to-Run) won't coexist unfortunately this is a known, frustrating, issue as you have discovered:  

     

    "You can’t install two products together that have the same version but use different installation technologies."

     

    In the instance, you have described you would have to downgrade to Office 2013 Standard or use the 2013 version of Visio Pro for Office 365.  Another option would be to use Office 365 ProPlus if that's an option or buy Visio 2016 (MSI) instead, via Volume Licence.  Any of these would coexist.  More details are available here - Supported scenarios for installing different versions of Office, Visio, and Project on the same computer.

     

    Here are two scenarios that expand on this:

     

    The two general rules for which installation scenarios are supported and provides some examples

    The way we do it, is we buy volume licenced versions of Visio 2016 (or Project 2016) and deploy this alongside Office 365 ProPlus using ODT.  This is a special configuration, which requires KMS activations but it works well for us. More details - Use the Office Deployment Tool to install volume licensed editions of Visio 2016 and Project 2016.

     

     Here is a summary:

     

    Supported installation scenarios for Visio 2016

    Hope that helps a bit.

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