Internet Protocol version 6 support for Office 2010
Applies to: Office 2010
Topic Last Modified: 2011-08-05
This article explains the support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing in the following Microsoft Office 2010 applications:
Microsoft Access 2010
Microsoft Excel 2010
Microsoft InfoPath 2010
Microsoft OneNote 2010
Microsoft Outlook 2010
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Microsoft Project 2010
Microsoft Publisher 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010
Microsoft Visio 2010
Microsoft Word 2010
In this article:
Internet Protocol supported environments
User scenarios
Internet Protocol supported environments
Office 2010 applications that run on Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows Vista, or Windows 7 support the following environments:
Pure Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) environment
Mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environment
Pure IPv6 environment
In a Windows environment, “mixed” can be defined as one of the following likely scenarios (but there might be other scenarios):
Both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols are running in your environment.
Some of your client computers are using IPv4 and some of them are using IPv6.
Your client computers are using IPv4. However, the computer that is running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is using IPv6.
In addition, user interfaces (UIs) for Office 2010 applications support display of both IPv4 and IPv6 type IP addresses.
User scenarios
Office 2010 applications are designed to support IPv6 addressing to match support in Windows operating systems. In IPv6 environments and in IPv4 or mixed IP environments, users can browse network locations; open, save, publish, and insert objects, pictures, and files; open data sources; access shared workspaces; get document updates from network paths; and other tasks that use any of the following:
Universal naming convention (UNC)
Server name, where Domain Name System (DNS) uses an IPv6 address (for example, \\server\share)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Literal address
For more information about IPv6 support for specific scenarios and applications, see the following resources.
For more information about how to use literal addresses, see IP Version 6 Support (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=128846).
For more information about IPv6 support for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, see IP support (SharePoint Server 2010).
For more information about IPv6, including compatibility, installation, and addressing, see IPv6 for Microsoft Windows: Frequently Asked Questions (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=128850).