Simul Enterprise can integrate with third party products; some integrations require Simul’s support to activate but those described in this article and be configured by administrators.

Office Online Server

Simul can integrate with Office Online Server to allow members to edit Word documents directly in their web browser.

For details on Office Online Server please refer to the following Microsoft support articles:

• navigate_next Overview
• navigate_next Deployment guide

Once installed, Simul only needs to know the Discovery Url which will be similar to the following:

Once configured, Simul users will be able to open documents via the “Edit in Word Online” button:

Applying Settings

Any updates to Simul's configuration are not effective until an administrator applies them. This includes if the system is restarted.

After making changes of any kind, an indicator will appear on the "Status" tab in the navigation of the management application:

This icon indicates there are pending configuration changes which are yet to take effect.

To apply the changes, select "Status" in the management application and you will see a message like so:

By clicking "Apply Settings" Simul will be restarted with the modified configuration. Please be aware this involves a short outage (around 1 minute) for end users.