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I'm looking to set up a Microsoft Office Online Server in Azure on either a Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 VM per the following documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeonlineserver/deploy-office-online-server. I have an Azure Active Directory Domain Services resource set up as well that I've successfully connected the Virtual Machine to. After completing the steps in the documentation to set up a single node using http, the health status of the machine comes back Unhealthy.
I've tried a few solutions but none seem to cause the machine health to come back healthy. From the digging I've done, I haven't found a conclusive answer as to whether setting up an OOS Server in Azure is possible and if it is, if there are any additional steps needed to get it to work.
Any feedback on the feasibility of this or any thoughts/suggestions from someone who has set up something similar would be much appreciated!
@Mat Thomas Any update on the issue?
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Thanks
Installing Office Online Server in a shared IaaS environment (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) is against the license agreement. You'll need to deploy this in an environment where you own the underlying infrastructure.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the follow up! Do you know if a supported path exists for hosting office online in the cloud?
The only supported path is if you own the underlying infrastructure hosting the OOS VM. The linked article explains it.
I don't think that'ss right. The article states:
Because of the Microsoft Software License Terms for Office Web Apps and Office Online Server, the server hosting Office Online Server must be dedicated to the customer, which excludes any IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) providers that would not meet this requirement.
AWS allows you to run EC2 dedicated instances and dedicated hosts, which are "dedicated" to the customer for all intents and purposes.
Hi @Mat Thomas
In order to maintain the continuity of the question, I have changed your latest reply to comment.
As far as I know, apart from OOS, there is currently no alternative product. Whether in the cloud or in the local environment.
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