Office 2016 64-bit coming soon

[bpavlov]

Just relaying the information and giving people a heads up:

64-bit deployment is coming soon! Here’s the target schedule for each distribution channel: Insiders Fast​ -> 64bit release on 6/29, using main 160628. ​Insiders Slow​ -> 64bit release on 7/5, using main_rel ~160702 (June fork). ​Production​ -> 64bit release on 8/16, using main_rel ~160808 (July fork) These dates are subject to change if we find blocking issues. One major point of caution: external plugins like EndNote are not currently 64-bit and will not work until they are released for 64-bit. We are working closely with EndNote; they are aware of the dates and are close to done with their update themselves. EndNote may not have a release done in time for the 6/29 or 7/5 dates, but those are insider drops that shouldn’t be deployed widely. We do expect EndNote to have a 64-bit release in time for the wide production release in August.

This is from the #microsoft-office Slack channel http://macadmins.org and coming straight from Microsoft.

[bpavlov]

Here is a link you can point developers of external plug-ins to let them know of the upcoming change:
http://dev.office.com/mac-office-64-bit-transition

Microsoft has reached out to the developers as best as they can but they can't know them all or reach them all so hopefully that link will guide the developer

[donmontalvo]

From the #microsoft-office Slack channel, @RobertHammen posted a gold nugget...

I have Adobe Acrobat DC version 15.007.20033 installed, and newer versions are being deployed, should be good:

$ defaults read /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString
15.007.20033
$ file /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64
$ file /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewer.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFViewer
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewer.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFViewer: Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64

Working on an EA to determine if those plug-ins are 64 bit or not. Will update post once that's done.

FWIW, Microsoft offers both 32 bit and 64 bit installers now.

[donmontalvo]

EA for AdobePDFViewer.plugin:

#!/bin/sh
# If AdobePDFViewer.plugin is installed, report i386 or x86_64.

STRING=$( file /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewer.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFViewer ) 

if [ -e /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewer.plugin ]; then
    if [[ $STRING == *x86_64* ]]; then
        echo "<result>x86_64</result>"
    elif [[ $STRING != *i386* ]]; then
        echo "<result>i386</result>"
    fi
else
    echo "<result>NotInstalled</result>"
fi

and for AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin:

#!/bin/sh
# If AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin is installed, report i386 or x86_64.

STRING=$( file /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI ) 

if [ -e /Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Support/Browser/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin ]; then
    if [[ $STRING == *x86_64* ]]; then
        echo "<result>x86_64</result>"
    elif [[ $STRING != *i386* ]]; then
        echo "<result>i386</result>"
    fi
else
    echo "<result>NotInstalled</result>"
fi