Office Web Apps 2013 UpdatesAugust 3, 2013. Enable Office Web Apps working in both Internal and External environment. Office Web Apps Server 2013 provides the ability to create a farm with one or more machines in it. Recently I had to create a farm with two machines, and. What is the Issue If you Installed office web app server and associated it with your SharePoint farm, now you have you SharePoint 2013 farm connected to a WAC 2013. Enabling Office Web Apps Preview editing with SharePoint 2013 Preview Licensing Print posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 350 AM. As you maybe aware there are a. Wictor Wiln Share. Point MCA, MCSM, MCM and MVPIn my last post still smoking fresh I showed you how to update your Office Web Apps 2. March 2. 01. 3 update, connect it to Share. Point 2. 01. 3 and being able to view PDF documents in the browser. What I didnt explain or show in that post was how to enable the PDF Previews in Search but Ill do it now. Pre requisites. Before you start fiddling with this, you need to make sure that you have the March 2. Office Web Apps Server 2. WAC installed and connected to your farm if you dont know for sure, ask your admins sometimes they knowif they dont give them the link to my previous blog post. Note You dont have to have a patched Share. Point 2. 01. 3, this will work on the RTM bits. In SharePoint 2013, especially when on Office 365, you probably want to take advantage of Office Web Apps OWA to open Office documents Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Default PDF Search Experience. Share. Point 2. 01. PDF documents, through the new document parsers. That is you dont have to fiddle with any custom PDF IFilters etc. Requirement Clicking on a documents in a SharePoint 2013 document library, opens the document directly in browser, Where SharePoint 2013 farm is configured to use. Office Web Apps 2013 has a really well written reporting mechanism that constantly monitors and reports issues with your WAC farm and its machines. You can at any. Below you may find the build numbers, descriptions, KB article links and direct download links for all SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Foundation 2013. The native PDF document parser is a good enough solution, but have some room for improvements. The Search Experience and display in Share. Point 2. 01. 3 is based upon Display Templates. Display Templates decide how the result should be shown and how the fly out of the result should look like. For Office documents, when Share. Installing Windows Xp On A New Hard Drive on this page. Point 2. 01. 3 is connected to a WAC farm, Share. Point displays inline previews which you can use to skim through the results really quick. For PDF this is not the case not even if you use a WAC farm with the March 2. TNBlogsFS/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/00/00/00/60/37/5824.Office_2013_WOPI.jpg' alt='Install Office Web Apps 2013' title='Install Office Web Apps 2013' />There are multiple ways to find the OWA 2013 patch or build level Use PowerShell Check the XOfficeVersion header value, on an Office Web Apps OWA or. In my last post still smoking fresh I showed you how to update your Office Web Apps 2013 farm to the March 2013 update, connect it to SharePoint 2013 and being able. WOPI binding supports the interactivepreview action. This is a sample on how a PDF document could look like in Share. Point 2. 01. 3 Search Enabling PDF Previews in the Search Result. Since we have the opportunity to modify the Display Templates and create our own Search Experience we can very easy modify the fly outhover panel of the PDF results to show the interactive preview. We can do this in two different waysCreate a new Result Type. The easiest and fastest approach to enable our previews for PDF documents is by creating a custom Result Type. This is done by going to Site Settings Search Result Types and then finding the PDF Result Type. Choose to Copy the Word Result Type. This will create a new Result Type. Give the new Result Type an appropriate name, PDF with Preview for instance. Then scroll down to Actions and in the What should these results look like drop down, choose to use the Word Display Template. Then just click Save, go back to your Search Center and search for a PDF document and voil we have PDF Previews. Modifying the PDF Display Templates. The second approach, which is a bit more advanced is to actually modify the PDF Flyout Design Template. You do this by going to Site Settings Design Manager then choose 5. Edit Display Templates. Microsoft-Excel-Web-App-1024x471.png' alt='Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013' title='Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013' />Locate the PDF Flyout item by filtering on the Target Control Type column and use Search. Hover. Panel, then scroll down to PDF Hover Panel. To modify the PDF Hover Panel, use the Word Hover Panel as a template. Im not going in to all the details on how to modify the actual HTML file see my similar post on how to achieve this here. But once youve modified it, make sure to save it to the gallery so the JS file is generated, and publish it. Now if you made the correct updates you will have Custom Search Previews for PDF documents. Summary. Youve now seen how you quick and easy can enable PDF Search Previews in Share. Point 2. 01. 3 using the March 2. Office Web Apps 2. All you need to do is either create a custom Result Type and use the Word Display Templates or modify the default PDF Display Template. I really hope that Microsoft makes this a standard feature for upcoming Share. Point 2. 01. 3 releases. Comments have been disabled for this content. Creating an Office Web Apps Server 2. Jens Trier Rasmussen. Office Web Apps Server 2. Recently I had to create a farm with two machines, and it took a little bit to get my head around how to do it. Here is how I ended up doing it. I had the following environment. Two servers wac. The internal fqdn of the farm should be wac. Hardware load balancer configured for wac. On wac. 1. contoso. I did the following steps. Installed Office Web Apps Server 2. March 1. 2, 2. 01. Used the MMC certificate snap in to create a certificate from my internal CA based on Web. Server template with. Subject name Wac. Farm. Friendly name Wac. Farm. Subject alternate names of wac. Allow private key to be exported. After the certificate was loaded in the personal local computer certificate store, I exported the certificate with the private key to a file. Used Power. Shell to create the Office Web Apps Farm with the cmd. New Office. Web. Apps. Farm Internal. URL https wac. External. URL https wacext. Certificate. Name Wac. Farm Verbose Allow. Http true. On wac. I did the following steps. Installed Office Web Apps Server 2. March 1. 2, 2. 01. Used the MMC certificate snap in to import the certificate, I had exported on wac. Used Power. Shell to join wac. Office Web Apps Farm, which has wac. Master. New Office. Web. Apps. Machine Machine. To. Join wac. 1. contoso. The tricky part to get right was the last command. You have to run it on the machine you wish to join to the farm, and you have to reference an existing machine in the farm. It needs the reference to be able to read the farm settings.