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Nov 27

Installing Office Web Apps For SharePoint 2013 – Part 2

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Office Web Apps, SharePoint 2013

by arichards_Saruk

In Part 1 of this series I explained installing and configuring Office Web Apps, in this post I am going to goimage_thumb[5] through configuring SharePoint 2013 to use my nice new shiny Office Web Apps server and the implications for licensing when it comes to editing using Office Web Apps.

Claims Based Authentication

For SharePoint 2013 to access Office Web Apps the web application must use claims based authentication. If your web application uses classic mode authentication then you will need to run a PowerShell script to convert it to claims based authentication

Convert-SPWebApplication -Identity "http://yourwebapplication:port" -To Claims –RetainPermissions

Licensing

To enable your users to edit documents using Office Web Apps you need to assign them licenses to edit.

To do this you will need to run a series of PowerShell commands

Get-SPUserLicense

$x = New-SPUserLicenseMapping -SecurityGroup <ADsecuritygroup> –License OfficeWebAppsEdit

$x | Add-SPUserLicenseMapping

Enable-SPUserLicensing

$x is a variable that holds the mapping object to input at the Add command

<ADsecuritygroup> is the AD group you want to assign the license to

Bind Office Web Apps

Once the above two items are in place you need to bind SharePoint 2013 to your Office Web Apps server, again to do this run the following PowerShell command

New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName <WebAppServerName>

This will by default use HTTPS so make sure you use the FQDN of the Office Web Apps server

Verify It Works

The simplest way to ensure t works is to navigate to your SharePoint 2013 farm and open a Office document, if its all worked then it will open up in the corresponding Web App

If you have only assigned the editing license to certain AD groups then you will be able to see the difference in the ribbon. The 2 screenshots show one with the edit license and one without

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