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Javier Barrera

SharePoint Engineer, Rackspace

Office Web Apps

2 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013

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vibrate

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(at registration desk)

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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF

SHAREPOINT SATURDAY AUSTIN!

SharePoint Saturday Austin is hosted by

the Austin SharePoint User Group

(@AustinSPUG)


http://JavierBarrera.com

[email protected]

twitter: @jtbarreraSharePoint Engineer – Rackspace Enterprise Services

• MCSE, MCITP, and Other Various Alphabet Soup Credentials

• 11+ Years in Enterprise Level IT

• Manage over 250+ Unique SharePoint Farms

• Direct Implementation of Public Facing SharePoint Sites that Average 1+ Million Hits per Month

SPEAKER


OWA: GREAT IDEA!


OWA: BAD IMPLEMENTATION


OWA: USER FRUSTRATION


•I: Past

•II: Future

•III: Promise

THE ACTS

ACT I: THE PAINFUL PAST


OWA 2010 ARCHITECTURE


• 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


• 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

ACT II: THE PROMISING FUTURE


• 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


OWA 2013 ARCHITECTURE


• 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


• 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

ACT III: THE PROMISE

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EVALUATIONS AND

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