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Title: Building an Office Web Apps (OWA) Server

Created: 12/10/2012

Description:

The new Wave 2013 Platform (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013) use a new server

called the Office Web Apps Server. This is important not to confuse this server with the Outlook

Web Access or Outlook Web App server in Exchange. Both functions unfortunately use the

same abbreviation OWA. So, you need to be careful as you read through the documentation to

distinguish if the documentation is referring to an Office Web Apps server or Outlook Web App

function. In this post, we will create an Office Web Apps server and connect it to Lync 2013.

Lync Server 2013 employs Office Web Apps Server to handle PowerPoint presentations in conferences.

References:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455.aspx ; Deploy Office Web Apps Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204792(OCS.15).aspx ; Configuring Integration with

Office Web Apps Server and Lync Server 2013

Disclaimer:

Contents of this blog and article represent the opinions of Dean Suzuki, and do not reflect the

views of my employer. (C) 2012 Dean Suzuki, All Rights Reserved

Procedure:

Table of Contents 1 Create Office Web Apps Server (OWAS) VM: ................................................................................. 2

2 Load Operating System Pre-requisites ............................................................................................ 2

3 Download and Install the Office Web Apps Server ........................................................................ 3

4 Install the OWAS Language Pack ..................................................................................................... 5

5 Create the Office Web Apps Farm .................................................................................................... 7

6 Verify that the OWA Farm Was Created .......................................................................................... 8

7 Request SSL Certificate ...................................................................................................................... 9

8 Submit the Certificate Request to the Certificate Authority .............................................................. 11

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204792(OCS.15).aspx


9 Process the Certificate ........................................................................................................................ 13

10 Create the Web Farm ...................................................................................................................... 14

11 Test the Web Farm .......................................................................................................................... 15

12 Add the OWA Server to Lync 2013.................................................................................................. 15

13 Install Any Additional Components on the Lync Server .................................................................. 18

1 Create Office Web Apps Server (OWAS) VM: Create a new virtual machine for the Office Web Apps Server (OWAS).

See the earlier posts for building a base Windows 2012 VM.

Copy it and make a virtual machine for OWAS.

Set IP address

Set server name.

Join machine to the domain

Set IP address

2 Load Operating System Pre-requisites Browse to the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455.aspx

Open a Powershell Window

Execute the following command

Then the following command:

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-

Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-

Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-

Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455.aspx


You’ll need to reboot after the command runs

3 Download and Install the Office Web Apps Server Download the Office Web Apps Server from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=35489

It will come as an img file (Disk image file)

Double-click it and it will open the disk file.

Double –click setup.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35489

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35489


4 Install the OWAS Language Pack

Download the Office Web Apps Server Language Pack (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=35490)


5 Create the Office Web Apps Farm

Open a Powershell Window and execute the following command:

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm –InternalURL "http://servername" –AllowHttp -EditingEnabled


iisreset /restart /noforce

6 Verify that the OWA Farm Was Created Execute the following command in a browser:

http://servername/hosting/discovery

You should have something like:

http://servername/hosting/discovery


7 Request SSL Certificate

Lync requires HTTPS connection to the OWA server.

Request SSL certificate for the Office Web Apps Server (OWA). Launch IIS Manager.

Select “Server Certificate”


On the right menu, select “Create Certificate Request”

Note: I had to re-run the Certificate Wizard since I should have put the FQDN into the common

name field. The above picture is not correct and I forgot to snap the picture with the correct

value in the common name field. The common name field should be:

Lab2012-owas.contoso2012.com

The FQDN of the OWA server should be specified instead of just the hostname.


8 Submit the Certificate Request to the Certificate Authority

Go to the Certificate Authority’s Certificate Request website (http://<servername>/certsrv). In my lab,

it’s http://lab2012-dc/certsrv


Select “Request A Certficate”

Select “Advanced Certificate Request”

Select “Submit a certificate request . . .”

Select “Web Server” as the certificate template

Press “Submit”


Select “Download Certficate”

9 Process the Certificate

Launch IIS Manager on the OWAS.

Select “Complete Certificate Request” on the right-hand menu.


Specify the file that was downloaded from the Certificate Authority Certificate Request web site

in the prior section.

10 Create the Web Farm Open a Powershell window.

Execute the following command:

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalUrl "https://server.contoso.com" -ExternalUrl

"https://wacweb01.contoso.com" –CertificateName "OfficeWebApps Certificate" –EditingEnabled

In my case, it is shown below:


Enter the following command:

Iisreset /restart /noforace

11 Test the Web Farm Open a web browser and access the following web site:

https://server.contoso.com/hosting/discovery

In my lab, the URL that I accessed and the results are shown below:

12 Add the OWA Server to Lync 2013 Launch Lync 2013 Topology Builder

https://server.contoso.com/hosting/discovery


Navigate to the Office Web Apps Server and right-click and select “New Office Web Apps

Server…”

Enter the FQDN of the OWA Server and the discovery URL.


Right click the Lync Server at the top and select Publish Topology


13 Install Any Additional Components on the Lync Server

This step may not be necessary but I wanted to update the Lync server with any changes that may have

been published by the topology so I launch the Lync Deployment Wizard

Select “Install or Update Lync Server System”

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