What is new?

WSS MVP since 2006

Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius, President of the Ames Iowa chapter of the Mark Rhodes fan club

Personal Blogwww.toddklindt.com/blog

Company web sitewww.sharepoint911.com

E-mailtodd.Klindt@Rackspace.com

Twitter me! @toddklindt

Netcast

http://www.toddklindt.com/netcast

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A Look at the Past

What is New?

Demo

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Couldn’t run OWA on DC

Tightly integrated in SharePoint 2010

Unintended downtime for install/patch/removal

Excel web app/excel services confusion

Install on single or multiple servers in farm for service on server

Leveraged as SharePoint feature (turn it on/off per site collection)

Special SQL database permission requirements

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Adds extra load to installed SP servers

Limited browser support

Limited document editing capabilities

No smartphone support

No tablet support

No touch support

Complex patching cycle

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• Easy upgrades without downtime

• Scaling without SharePoint impact

• New capabilities to:

Exchange

Lync

File Shares

Custom Sources

• Can now create files within the browser

• Greater browser compatibility

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Web application Open Platform Interface (WOPI)

WOPI provides the link between the SharePoint farm and the OWA farm

WOPI components WOPI App: Office Web App 2013 farm

WOPI Host: typically your SharePoint farm

Office Web Apps servers can be dedicated to role or All Front End

Excel Back End

Word Back End

PowerPoint Back End

Master Machine

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Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (+higher version)

All servers must be domain joined

.NET 4.0

IIS 7.0 (role needs to be turned on through the

Web Server (IIS) role)

PowerShell 3.0

Load balancer for multi-machine farms

Dedicated server(s) with no other applications

installed (that are using ports 80 or 443)*

Can not install SharePoint/domain

controller/Exchange/Lync on the OWA servers

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Todd’s blog

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog

Todd’s Netcast

http://www.toddklindt.com/netcast

Slides and files

http://www.toddklindt.com/AUSPC2013

Build a WOPI server

http://www.wictorwilen.se/sharepoint-2013-

building-your-own-wopi-client-part-1

Download OWA language packs

http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=35490

Pester me @toddklindt or todd.Klindt@Rackspace.com

Or at the Rackspace booth

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