Having said that, this was a pretty seamless and stress-free experience and everything really just worked. I have to say that installations always make me a little nervous and this is based on bad experiences that are firmly etched in my mind. Added local VisSDK.chm help file back to its original path as per step 2 (Note – the file does contain a couple of mistakes that have been corrected in the more authoritative online version, but I still like a local copy of the the ShapeSheet reference).(I opted for ‘InsiderSlow’, this being my primary machine and I’ll let my other machine ride the bleeding edge.) Installed ‘Office 365 Pro Plus’ and ‘Visio Pro for Office 365’ using the Office Deployment Tool described here How Office 365 commercial customers can get early access to new Office 2016 features.Copied Visio.officeUI plus other officeUI files that contain ribbon customizations ( C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\Visio.officeUI).Copied the Visio 2013 SDK help file, which no longer ships in the 2016 version ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\VisSDK\Docs\VisSDK.chm).Uninstalled older Visual Studio versions (not required as VS supports side-by-side installs, but a good opportunity to tidy up).So, back to my upgrade – I thought I’d take the opportunity a lose a couple of older versions of Visual Studio while I was in my clean up phase and so it went something like this: Supported scenarios for installing different versions of Office, Visio, and Project on the same computer.
One thing to bear in mind is that old msi (Windows Installer) versions of Office don’t all play nicely with the newer C2R (Click to Run) ones and if you think that might be an issue for you, then you can see the various supported mix and match scenarios here: As an example, here’s Shashank Gandhi from the Visio product team talking about the Data Visualizer feature: In addition to the main deployment channels (‘Current’, ‘First Release for Deferred’ and ‘Deferred’) MS also makes two other channels (‘InsiderFast’ and ‘InsiderSlow’) available via the Office Insiders program, where you get early (prior to ‘Current’) builds including all of the latest features. The main benefit of the O365 version is the monthly updates that you get, which is great news if you’re in charge of your own installation, but also, from an admin perspective, offers a great deal of flexibility over how the updates are deployed. Just to keep you on your toes the naming of the products can be a little confusing – there’s the two traditional outright purchase options plus the O365 version, which is paid for on a subscription basis:
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