In SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 7, the connection to a SAS Visual Analytics server was made by going through the SAS Visual Analytics version defined in the metadata. 

In SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 8, the technology used to connect to a SAS Visual Analytics server changed to align with the technology used by the SAS Visual Analytics App, formerly known as SAS Mobile BI. This change allows SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office to connect to both SAS Visual Analytics 7 and SAS Visual Analytics 8. The new technology does not support Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). Therefore, in SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 8.0 through 8.2 Update 4, you cannot open SAS Visual Analytics reports using a SAS^® Metadata connection profile when IWA is enabled in the metadata connection profile.

This issue is fixed in SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 8.2 Update 5, thus allowing metadata access to SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 and earlier reports. SAS Visual Analytics on SAS^® Viya^® reports must use "Additional Visual Analytics Profiles" to access reports as metadata is not present in SAS Viya. 

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