Announcing New File Viewers Available for OneDrive For Business

Microsoft

Our vision here on the OneDrive for Business and SharePoint team has always been to give you the best experience for all your files. While you’ve always been able to store basically any file with us, we have been investing heavily in our web viewing technology and now view over 250 different file formats (see below for the full list) in OneDrive and SharePoint!

 

In the past, if you had native Adobe formats like Photoshop and Illustrator, 3D files, DICOM images, or even some of our own formats like Visio, you would have to resort to a separate viewer (or worse, pay for a third-party solution to manage these files when your organization may already be getting OneDrive with Office 365). Today, we are excited to announce support for these formats, and more.

 

Last year at Microsoft Ignite, we added support for major Adobe file formats, including Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI), in addition to our long-standing support for the Acrobat format (PDF). Also last year, we improved our video player to make your experience significantly faster by streaming high-quality videos without requiring them to fully download before playback.

 

 

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Today, we build on that to add support for 3D formats (3MF, FBX, OBJ, PLY, STL), and this lines up very nicely with what we have previewed in the Windows 10 Creators Update, which is coming soon (more information available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upcoming-features). Of course, we are completely cross-platform, so Mac and Linux users get seamless 3D support in OneDrive and SharePoint, all without requiring any browser plug-ins.

 

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If you’re in the healthcare field, we’ve also added support for DICOM images, with much more coming later in the year – letting you view x-rays, MRIs, CT scans, and more through OneDrive and SharePoint, which is fully HIPAA compliant by the way (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Compliance/HIPAA).

 

 

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And saving perhaps the best for last, we’ve integrated Visio (VSD, VSDX) viewing as well, making it much easier to share your ideas with the world using OneDrive and Visio together.

 

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When you consider all of this, plus the plethora of other files we support viewing, including Office files (where we support editing and coauthoring across web, desktop, and mobile) to even viewing and editing source code, we hope it’s clear that OneDrive is the place for all your files! We aren’t done of course, and we will keep bringing even more file formats to our viewers in the future and will keep you updated as we do. Finally, we’re eager to hear from you on what formats we should tackle next – either in the comments below, or on our UserVoice site, here - https://onedrive.uservoice.com.

 

Thanks

Nicolas Cabeen - OneDrive/SharePoint Program Manager

 

PS – here’s the full list of file types that we now support viewing online in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint.

Documents:

csv, doc, docm, docx, dotx, eml, msg, odp, ods, odt, pdf, pot, potm, potx, pps, ppsx, ppt, pptm, pptx, rtf, vsd, vsdx, xls, xlsb, xlsm, xlsx

 

Images:

ai, arw, bmp, cr2, eps, erf, gif, ico, icon, jpeg, jpg, mrw, nef, orf, pict, png, psd, tif, tiff

 

Video:

3gp, m4v, mov, mp4, wmv

 

3D:

3mf, fbx, obj, ply, stl

 

Medical:

dcm, dcm30, dic, dicm, dicom

 

Text and code:

abap, ada, adp, ahk, as, as3, asc, ascx, asm, asp, awk, bash, bash_login, bash_logout, bash_profile, bashrc, bat, bib, bsh, build, builder, c, c++, capfile, cc, cfc, cfm, cfml, cl, clj, cls, cmake, cmd, coffee, cpp, cpt, cpy, cs, cshtml, cson, csproj, css, ctp, cxx, d, ddl, di, dif, diff, disco, dml, dtd, dtml, el, emakefile, erb, erl, f, f90, f95, fs, fsi, fsscript, fsx, gemfile, gemspec, gitconfig, go, groovy, gvy, h, h++, haml, handlebars, hbs, hcp, hh, hpp, hrl, hs, htc, hxx, idl, iim, inc, inf, ini, inl, ipp, irbrc, jade, jav, java, js, jsp, jsx, l, less, lhs, lisp, log, lst, ltx, lua, m, make, markdn, markdown, md, mdown, mkdn, ml, mli, mll, mly, mm, mud, nfo, opml, osascript, out, p, pas, patch, php, php2, php3, php4, php5, phtml, pl, plist, pm, pod, pp, profile, properties, ps1, pt, py, pyw, r, rake, rb, rbx, rc, re, readme, reg, rest, resw, resx, rhtml, rjs, rprofile, rpy, rss, rst, rxml, s, sass, scala, scm, sconscript, sconstruct, script, scss, sgml, sh, shtml, sml, sql, sty, tcl, tex, text, textile, tld, tli, tmpl, tpl, txt, vb, vi, vim, wsdl, xhtml, xml, xoml, xsd, xsl, xslt, yaml, yaws, yml, zsh

 

 

61 Replies

Sean,

 

Great feedback. I will pass it onto engineering but, if you could add it to https://onedrive.uservoice.com as well, that would be great as you can track the progress there.

 

Thanks again

@Stephen Rose, are there known limitations on when the preview will not be displayed for the supported file types? For example, when we try to preview an .eml file that contains images, we get "Hmm... looks like this file doesn't have preview we can show you" error. Eml files without images open fine online and in a mobile.

any progress made on these

We are constantly adding new viewers and are bringing more of these previewers to our browser and mobile experiences as well as to the Windows desktop.


Keep an eye out on our blog for more updates.

 

 

CorelDRAW (.cdr)

Corel PaintShopPro native file (.psp)

What is the current status of previewing CAD drawings?

We are working with the AutoCAD folks to see if they will let us support CAD files. I hope to have more to share on our progress in the near future.

Hello Stephen, thank you for the progress made on OneDrive, still we could greatly appreciate having an AutoCAD file viewer. Any ETA or progress to share?

Ivan, you nailed the issue down. I am missing the feature to open documents directly in the client application and so saving it, saves it back to the library.
we're utilizing the offline sync method to circumvent the problem

MSG (emails) don't seem to work with the new OneDrive file viewer (they did initially I believe) and PDFs are sporadic.  MOST PDFs work but all of them.  When I say "most" I mean maybe 80-90% of them, which is really quite difficult to explain to users.

 

Any updates to why these formats have issues even though they're listed as supported? Note, email messages (msg) do not work at all.

E-Mails did work for us previously, I don't know though if they were eml or msg.
But attachments can't be viewed/opened from the web viewer.

Has this been addressed yet???  It doesn't appear so as my users are still only seeing the first page of their .ai (Adobe Illustrator) files.  Dropbox and Google Drive allow you to scroll through the pages/artboards.

Please add support for .dwg, .nwd, .rvt files to preview on Onedrive for Business. Would be a great feature for AEC Enterprises.

Is there a way for Sharepoint to pull some of the useful data from the STL file? I would like to know how to get more useful info other than just rendering the STL. Is there *any* documentation on what options are available or how to use this feature in a more advanced way?

 

Best,

 

JM

Kudos for the huge improvement in Preview functionality - our users are really getting comfortable in OneDrive.

 

Is there a RoadMap for Project files (.mpp) Preview?

 

As much as our Project Managers enjoy saying their .mpp files as Excel files for viewability, I'm sure they would be delighted if everyone could Preview the .mpp without the Excel step.

 

thx

This has been in MediaRich ECM for SharePoint Since 2009 and is now in our https://equilibrium.com/oneviewer/ product. We just announced Annotate Anywhere™ as well, which includes the ability to export annotations, and generate PDF's with annotations on 400 file types. Check it out. No downloads, doesn't require sync, plug-in's or apps to be installed.

Hello,

 

What about those CAD Files?
Shall we be able to view DXF, IGES or Step files?

 

Many Thanks

@Stephen Rose , any update on viewers using the Windows Explorer interface with Sharepoint Online documents? Any update on viewers for 2019?