With the right version, you will get this (all of the subsequent screenshots in this article are from a W7/64-bit system using the SharePoint Designer 2010 64-bit install):Ĭlick on the Customize installation button. If you downloaded the wrong version, you will see something like this Setup Error dialog: But upon accepting the license agreement, your installation of Picture Manager will be in license compliance.Īfter downloading the correct version for your Office installation (32-bit or 64-bit), run the SharePoint Designer 2010 setup program. There are, of course, other terms, and you should read them carefully (the entire license agreement, via a copy/paste from the installation dialog, is attached to this article).

You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices. On the license compliance issue, the key term in the SharePoint Designer 2010 license agreement is this:ġ. This means that SharePoint Designer 2010 is the last version to contain Picture Manager.

Furthermore, Microsoft announced at the Ignite 2015 conference that there will not be a SharePoint Designer 2016, i.e., SharePoint Designer 2013 is the final release of that product. Note that Picture Manager is not a component of SharePoint Designer 2013. The 32-bit/64-bit distinction refers to the bit-level of your Office applications, not the bit-level of your Windows. That said, this article discusses a different approach that is definitely in license compliance.Īs it turns out, Picture Manager is a component of SharePoint Designer 2010, which is available as a free download at the Microsoft site: Since there are several Office versions that contain Picture Manager and numerous Microsoft license agreements, I cannot give any advice on the legality of this approach - you must check your particular license agreement. But you'll need to look at the license agreement to determine if that is in compliance. It may be possible to install Picture Manager from the media of your prior Office version, such as 2007 or 2010. This article explains how to correct this serious omission by the folks in Redmond and install (for free!) Microsoft Office Picture Manager 2010, which plays nicely with Office 2013. I recently installed Microsoft Office 2013 on a new computer and was disappointed to discover that Microsoft Office Picture Manager is not included in Office 2013.

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