Office Web Apps 2010 brings Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word to your browser. You can view and edit documents based on these formats (2003-2007 as well as 2010). Office Web Apps can be used with Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari.
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What is it?
Office Web Apps 2010 brings Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word to your browser. You can view and edit documents based on these formats (2003-2007 as well as 2010). Office Web Apps can be used with Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari.
Availability
Office Web Apps 2010 is an optional product and not included in any of the SharePoint 2010 versions. But you can install it with:
Installation
You need to install Office Web Apps on every application and web front-end server in your SharePoint 2010 farm. The installation itself is straightforward…
Configuration
In order to view and edit Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents in the browser you need to create service applications and after that you need to activate a service. OneNote doesn’t require any service or service application.
Service Applications
- Excel Services Application
- PowerPoint Service Application
- Word Viewing Service
Important: If you decide to use a custom service account you need to make sure that it has the rights mentioned in the referenced TechNet article:
”You can choose to create a new application pool to be used with a service application. When creating a new application pool, you can specify the security account used by the application pool to be a predefined Network Service account, or you can specify a managed account. The account must have read\write privileges for the SPContent database and SPConfig database.”
Otherwise you will get the following error in the SharePoint log:
Exception: Cannot open database "WSS_Content_80" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\spAppPoolWordAcc'.
Services
- Excel Calculation Services
- PowerPoint Service
- Word Viewing Service
At the end activate the corresponding services.
Using Office Web Apps
If you try to edit an old PowerPoint version the edit button is missing in the item drop down. Just click View in Browser and there you will find an edit button helping you to convert the document.
Btw: Excel has no close button… ;)
Uninstall
If you decide to remove Office Web Apps from one server you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard again and re-join the farm!
Summary
That are the basics for Office Web Apps 2010 so far…
