At our org we had some PowerBI/Excel stuff that required more memory than the
32 bit version can use. I never saw it personally but supposedly users would
actually get prompted by Excel that it needs more memory and they should use
the 64 bit version.
In our switch to Windows 10 the decision was made to go full 64 bit everywhere.
Not my call, that’s just what was decided. It’s not gone well and has been a
huge pain in the ass. Doubly so if you are still supporting some legacy plugin
or process that requires and older version of Office. For example, our
internal SharePoint site is way behind but our marketing department ‘needed’
that IE plugin that makes spreadsheets looks like spreadsheets right in their
browser. It is not supported to run both 32 and 64 on the same box and newer
installers detect this and refuse to install. So you have to install the
latest first (Office 365 64 bit) then work backwards (SharePoint Plugin). If
you ever need to reinstall Office you have to wipe everything and start over.
It’s terrible.
Bryan
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mssms] MS Office x86 or x64
Same; x86 for the majority. However, if you have some really deep Excel
experts, they might want Excel 64; I seem to recall some Excel expert saying
how x64 excel is much better for some things they needed to do with it.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:32 PM, Adam Juelich
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The general recommendation is x86 due to Add-ins and such. If you can make x64
work, more power to you, but it's generally not recommended because most run
into an issue that requires them to pedal back.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Mike Murray
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It's been a while since I revisited this, but is 32-bit MS Office still the
safer bet in enterprise (instead of 64)?
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