SharePoint 2013 Office web App Server functionality
Hi Folks,
SharePoint has capabilities to open and edit office files in browser without Office installed on client machine.It's one of the brilliant feature of SharePoint and Office web app server.To incorporate this feature with your web application you need to follow some easy steps and configure a dedicated office web app server and point your SharePoint farm to that office web app server so that your SharePoint farm can use OWA(Office web app) server to provide functionality to view and edit office files in browser.
Please note that you cannot make your SharePoint server in role of Office web app server so you need to built a dedicated and separate machine to install office web app.
Also one OWA server can connect to multiple SharePoint farm to provide OWA functionality.
In this blog I am trying to cover below few points:
1.How to configure OWA server
2.How to Point your SharePoint farm to OWA server
3.How to point multiple SharePoint farm to one dedicated OWA server
4.How to check your OWA functionality is working fine with your SharePoint web application or not.
5.Troubleshoot on OWA issues So let's move on point 1 and that is How to configure OWA Server.
So let's start with How to configure or deploy OWA Server for on premise SharePoint 2013 FARM.
Do not worry at all as It's a simple step to play with some software installation on windows server.Microsoft has written a good article and provided videos as well on this.
Install prerequisite
Install Office web app server and
Install Language packs.
Please follow steps mentioned in the below msdn article:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455.aspx
And now yes you have done with installation of OWA server.
Now it's time to point your SharePoint Farm to OWA server.For that you need to run below powershell scripts on your SharePoint server.
Open SharePoint Management shell as Run as Administrator.
Create SPWOPIBINDING by running below command
New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName <Host name of your Office web app server>
To check SPWopiZone,Run below command
Get-SPWOPIZone
If it's "internal http" your office web app functionality only works with your http sites and not with SSL enabled site.So It's better to set spwopizone as "external https"
Below is the command to change spwopizone
Set-SPWOPIZone -zone "external-https"
Now your office web app functionality works externally with SSL enabled sites as well.
Now I am going to explain how can we use one OWA server for multiple SharePoint Farms as many organization need this as it's cost effective to use same OWA server for your Development and Acceptance SharePoint Farm.
What you need to do just go to other Sharepoint farm and create new SPwopibinding and set spwopizone as per your requirement as mentioned above by powershell script and here you go.All done for you.
SharePoint has capabilities to open and edit office files in browser without Office installed on client machine.It's one of the brilliant feature of SharePoint and Office web app server.To incorporate this feature with your web application you need to follow some easy steps and configure a dedicated office web app server and point your SharePoint farm to that office web app server so that your SharePoint farm can use OWA(Office web app) server to provide functionality to view and edit office files in browser.
Please note that you cannot make your SharePoint server in role of Office web app server so you need to built a dedicated and separate machine to install office web app.
Also one OWA server can connect to multiple SharePoint farm to provide OWA functionality.
In this blog I am trying to cover below few points:
1.How to configure OWA server
2.How to Point your SharePoint farm to OWA server
3.How to point multiple SharePoint farm to one dedicated OWA server
4.How to check your OWA functionality is working fine with your SharePoint web application or not.
5.Troubleshoot on OWA issues So let's move on point 1 and that is How to configure OWA Server.
So let's start with How to configure or deploy OWA Server for on premise SharePoint 2013 FARM.
Do not worry at all as It's a simple step to play with some software installation on windows server.Microsoft has written a good article and provided videos as well on this.
Install prerequisite
Install Office web app server and
Install Language packs.
Please follow steps mentioned in the below msdn article:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455.aspx
And now yes you have done with installation of OWA server.
Now it's time to point your SharePoint Farm to OWA server.For that you need to run below powershell scripts on your SharePoint server.
Open SharePoint Management shell as Run as Administrator.
Create SPWOPIBINDING by running below command
New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName <Host name of your Office web app server>
To check SPWopiZone,Run below command
Get-SPWOPIZone
If it's "internal http" your office web app functionality only works with your http sites and not with SSL enabled site.So It's better to set spwopizone as "external https"
Below is the command to change spwopizone
Set-SPWOPIZone -zone "external-https"
Now your office web app functionality works externally with SSL enabled sites as well.
Now I am going to explain how can we use one OWA server for multiple SharePoint Farms as many organization need this as it's cost effective to use same OWA server for your Development and Acceptance SharePoint Farm.
What you need to do just go to other Sharepoint farm and create new SPwopibinding and set spwopizone as per your requirement as mentioned above by powershell script and here you go.All done for you.
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