As we mentioned in the introduction, Office service applications are primarily used by developers to extend the capabilities of the Office platform into SharePoint Server. The core Office service applications are as follows:
- Access Services: Enables users to create and manage web-based Microsoft Access applications.
- Excel Services: Enables users to work with Excel workbooks on SharePoint sites.
- Machine Translation Service: Provides language translation services for sites and documents.
- PerformancePoint Service: This is used to create and publish dashboards.
- PowerPoint Automation Services: This enables unattended conversion of PowerPoint presentations.
- Visio Services: Enables users to interact with Visio drawings on SharePoint sites.
- Word Automation Services: This enables unattended conversion of Word documents.
Microsoft is de-emphasizing Access and Excel services and recommends that organizations use newer cloud-based technologies like Power Automate...