Office 2010 server side automation in a Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Environment

Question

I am aware of of the infamous Considerations for server-side Automation of Office from Microsoft and it clearly lists products from the 2010 suite.

However, today I

Answer 1

If he's referring to automating the Office 2010 client on the server, he continues to be wrong. If he's referring to newly available functionality on the server that automates some Office document processing, he's right. It's likely he's referring to the later and has just skimmed some marketing material and came to a conclusion in his head that Office client can now be a headless automation server or some such thing.

Office 2010 on the server side came with a number of Application Services that work with SharePoint 2010 that significantly assist with server-side processing of some Office documents and functionality. In particular:

• Word Automation Services
• Excel Services
• InfoPath Forms Services
• and Visio Services