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Office Web Apps 2013WHAT IS NEW?

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http://JavierBarrera.comjavier.barrera@rackspace.comtwitter: @jtbarreraSharePoint Engineer – Rackspace Enterprise Services

MCSE, MCITP, and Other Various Alphabet Soup Credentials11+ Years in Enterprise Level ITManage over 250+ Unique SharePoint FarmsDirect Implementation of Public Facing SharePoint Sites that Average 1+ Million Hits per Month

Speaker?

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A Look at the PastWhat is New?Demo

Agenda

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OWA 2010 Architecture

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Couldn’t run OWA on DC

Tightly integrated in SP2010

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

What We Have in OWA 2010

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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

Problems with OWA 2010

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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

Some OWA 2013 Advantages

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OWA 2013 Architecture

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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

New Terms in OWA 2013

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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

OWA 2013 Requirements

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Demo

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Any Questions?Speaker: Javier Barrerahttp://javierbarrera.com@jtbarrera javier.barrera@rackspace.com

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