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Understanding Office Web Apps 2013
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Table of Contents
Overview
SharePoint
Exchange
Lync
Online Viewers
Overview
The
Office Web Apps
is the
Word
,
PowerPoint
,
Excel
and
OneNote
engine that allows users to work with Office content using the web browser.
A single server
Office Web Apps Server
is capable to support users of
Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013
viewing files stored on network shares enabling greater server utilization on the existing infrastructure.
The installation of
Office Web Apps Server
must
be on a dedicated server. It can't be installed on a existing SharePoint Server. Servers can be added together to form a farm
Office Web Apps
to accommodate more connections, improve the user experience and high availability. The following are supported versions of the browser for viewing and editing of documents:
Internet Explorer 7 or higher
Safari 4 or later
Chrome
Firefox 3.5 or higher
SharePoint
The
Office Web Apps Server
allows users of
SharePoint 2013
to view and edit any
Office
file that are published.
SharePoint
implements features such as preview and document sharing via link.
For an
On-
Primise
environment
during the creation of Office Web Apps Farm the feature to edit documents can be enabled, but this feature requires a separate license. Users of
SharePoint Online
and
Office 365
have this feature enabled by default.
Exchange
With the integration with
Exchange 2013
documents sent as an attachment can be viewed in OWA ( Outlook Web Access ) using the preview. But the documents are opened
as read only.
The following extensions are supported in
Office Web Apps:
Word - doc, docx, dotx, dot, dotm
Excel - xls, xlsx, xlsm, xlm, xlsb
PowerPoint - ppt, pptx, pps, ppsx, potx, pot, pptm, potm, ppsm
For users of
Exchange Online
preview of the feature is available by default.
For users of
Exchange 2013 On-Premise
it's a mandatory installation of
Office Web Apps Server
to view the files in OWA. This is a major change compared to Exchange Server 2010 that has the function of
web-ready
implemented internally, but Exchange 2013 requires the integration of
Office Web Apps.
Below I have the prints of an Excel file attached and its visualization in Office Web
Lync
The
Lync Server 2013
uses the
Office Web Apps
to share PowerPoint presentations. Using
Office Web Apps
users have the best experience of transition between slides and animations and support of audio/video stream.
The presentations utilize DHTML and JavaScript standards for the broadcast, allowing support for mobile devices viewing. Below I have a print of a presentation shared between two users.
Online Viewers
The
Viewers Online
is a feature of
Office Web Apps
that allows you to view files that are stored on file servers or published on other web sites.
When this feature is enabled a separate portal on Office Web Apps Server is made available to create the access link for the documents
Below I have the print portal to generate the link to the file
Below I have an Excel file that is stored on my file server
This article was originally written by:
Fernando Lugão Veltem
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