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Office Web Apps is a web-based version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. It includes the web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote. The web applications allow users to access their documents directly from anywhere within a web browser as well as share files and collaborate with other users online.

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Office Web Apps and SharePoint 2013 Integration Questions

I have a few questions regarding document access using Office Web Apps and Sharepoint 2013. (As a note I also have ADRMS and IRM configured) Is it possible to restrict a certain group of users only ...
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Office Web Apps Server 2013 - OpenFromURLEnabled deactivate

I found the folowing command for the Office Web Apps Server and this command works great: Set-OfficeWebAppsFarm -OpenFromURLEnabled But how can I deactivate OpenFromURL? Delete an recreate is a ...
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Problem with Office Web Apps

Office Web App Server will not work correctly with my Sharepoint Server (2013). When ever I try to open or edit a document via web app it keeps giving me the Sorry there was a problem and we can'...
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Suddenly missing icons in the Office 365 App Launcher

Three weeks ago suddenly a lot of our users did not see all icons in the Office 365 App Launcher. The users could no longer see the icons for Office Online, Sites or OneDrive for Business. I do not ...
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How to update SharePoint 2013 Office Web Apps: arguments for New-OfficeWebAppsFarm

I have development, test, and production SharePoint 2013 farms, all with Office Web Apps (OWA) 2013 servers connected to each. I want to apply the May 2013 OWA update but the process here says to "...
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Get all site collection in tenant using SharePoint Office 365 app

Hi i am creating Office 365 SharePoint APP(SharePoint Hosted). Now i need to get all site collection of tenant in my office 365 app. How to a get all site collection using JSOM (According to my ...
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Office 365 App Development Training

Is there a good class out there to get some training on this? Any recommendation to get into this world?
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SharePoint 2013 Office Web App

I have a SharePoint farm running over HTTPS. Office Web Apps is also installed on another server. When I open a office document, say a xlsx file, the file doesnt open in the browser. In Chrome I ...
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"Continue Interacting?" Prompt

We are hosting excel files in sharepoint (with an Office Web Apps server) The users get the below message if they don't interact with the excel file after a few minutes. Is there a way to increase ...
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Connect Office Web Apps Farm to multiple SharePoint Farms

Is it possible to connect a single office web apps farm to multiple SharePoint farms, or a 1 to 1 relationship is a requirement for it to work? thanks.
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Target links to open in page viewer web part from list view

I have a document library, and use office web apps to open the documents for reading. I would like the document to open inside a page viewer web part. Thus one could click a document in the library, ...
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Documents open in both the browser and client

My SharePoint 2013 site collection had been set to open all documents in the client application (by activating the site collection feature). After installing some security patches the other day, ...
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Is there a way to force a document to open in an office web app

I am trying to link to an excel file located on another sharepoint site in my domain. Whenever I attempt to link to the file it will not make any attempt to open in the excel web app (sharepoint will ...
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SharePoint Online: Problem opening Excel

SharePoint Online Excel 2010 Internet Explorer 11 I've recently completed a SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Online upgrade and am dealing with a few user issues in the project's wake. One user in ...
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Can we read documents inside sharePoint like .doc, .ppt etc without saving them in documents library in sharepoint

Can we read documents inside SharePoint like .doc, .ppt and .xls etc without saving them in Documents Library in SharePoint? I want to embed these documents in SharePoint Page and don't want to save ...
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Not able to open the excel files through browser - sharepoint 2010

In my environment i am not able to open the excel files through browser. However i can able to access the powerpoint and word files through browser. Any solution for this issue ? While opening the ...
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Can't edit Excel documents in SharePoint 2010 using the webapp - but it is fine using the Excel Client Application

I have a SharePoint site where I can edit excel documents using both the SharePoint web app and the excel application installed on my PC. However, in a new site, I can edit the same excel files using ...
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Office Web Apps Server 2013

I want to ask if any of here has a download link for Office Web App 2013? I'm searching for a link but I can't find one, I can only see the SP1 of it but not the exact installer of Office web app. ...
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How to hide or remove items in File menu in Office Web Apps

Is there a way I can remove or hide the options in Office Web Apps for Save As, Print and Share? I've read something saying it might be possible with Active Directory Rights Management Services, but ...
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Documents Open in Browser Issue

I have strange issue, word document open in browser as expected. But a read permission user open up the document in browser and able to edit and save it. Please advice
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What is a Provider hosted app in SharePoint 2013?

This may sound a little bit very basic but I would like to know what Sharepoint Provider app is? Is it a component that resides in any server and gets its data from SharePoint? or is it a component ...
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Office Web Apps Server unavailable externally

We configured an office web apps farm and it works perfectly internally. But it prompts external users to log into the office web apps servers. The screenshot below is from the ULS log when I try to ...
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Weird printing behavior in Word Online & Excel Online

We are using O365/SharePoint Online 2013. Whenever our users try to print something via Word Online or Excel Online they get somehow weird results. Examples of these weird results are the loss of ...
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Web app server: How to show a document that the user doesn't has access

I 'm designing a system with 100s of sites,1,000s of SP groups 1.000s of lists and 100.000s of documents. After a certain period of time, the documents will "move" from their current location to a ...
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Excel Web App dropdown control issues

Happy New Year everyone, I am having some strange issues with our on-prem SharePoint 2013 environment. When a user opens an excel document in Excel Web App in IE, the dropdown controls (edit workbook,...
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PowerPoint Web App problem with Google Chrome

It looks like it is not possible to increase/decrease indent level on PowePoint Web App using the latest version of Google Chrome and Safari. Buttons are greyed and tab doesn't work. Do you have the ...
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How to force a hyperlink which reference a visio drawing to display the visio drawing inside the browser

I have a site collection of type "Publishing>>Enterprise wiki", and I have the Visio Graphics service application enabled (I have enterprise SP license). Now if I open the document library, and I ...
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WopiFrame - how to set the URL behind the Exit menu?

In a document library in SP2013 on-premise we store RMS protected documents. We link to those documents from the welcome page, using the ?Web=1 url parameter so they open in the word web app. So far ...
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Redirect user when document closes in office web apps?

Is it possible to redirect a user when closing a document in the web app viewer? In particular, I have a left menu link to .pptx documents located in the document library. When the X (close button ...
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Calender integration

I want to integrate office 365 calender to any other third party calender. So that third party authorized person can create,update meeting schedule between Office 365 and third party tool using that ...
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Does Office Web Apps Require An Enterprise License?

We have the OWA services running in our SharePoint 2010 Farm. Does OWA require enterprise license?
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Programmatically detect if SharePoint 2013 is connected to OWA Server

SharePoint 2013 can be configured to use an Office Web Apps (OWA) server in order to display/preview Microsoft Office documents directly within the browser. This can be seen for example when opening ...
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Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2013

I have followed every guide that I can find - but I can't get Office Web Apps to work on SharePoint 2013. When I try to open a document, it starts to load but then I get an error. It then continues ...
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Excel services API for office 365

I have added a excel workbook to a document library in office 365. Office 365 you cannot add a Trusted Location for excel Services. I have enabled SharePoint enterprise services When I try open the ...
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Lock Cells to Certain People But Give Access to others in a Live Excel Online Worksheet

My company has switched from Google Docs to SharePoint and Office 365. One of the things that we need to be able to do is have a collaborative live/dynamic spreadsheet that give lock some cells to ...
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Add Noteboard webpart to Enterprise wiki in office 365

I followed this link and added the <PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField id="PageContent" FieldName="PublishingPageContent" MinimumEditHeight="400px" DisableInputFieldLabel="true" runat="server"/&...
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Office Web Apps views with Excel and Visio but not Word?

I've upgraded to the new SP1 and July update for Office Web Apps and it's working fine with Excel and Visio, however I notice Word Documents are no longer working. When I run Get-SPWOPIBInding ...
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Sharepoint-Office Web Apps Server error on New-SPWOPIBinding -All:$

I am trying to bind my SharePoint 2013 to Office Web Apps Server. The bind works with: New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName MyOfficeWebAppsServer but it doesn't with New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName ...
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Search results SharePoint 2013 encode URL space from %20 to %2520 for Office Documents

I have a problem with my Search Results in Sharepoint 2013, When I try to open an Office document the URL (space) changes from %20 to %2520, (for PDF documents no problem...) so I have an error page : ...
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Internet Explorer missing Sharepoint Addins

on some computers we have the problem that users are not able to open a Word document from Sharepoint. It says that an "Undefined error occured" when starting the Word web app: I discovered that on ...
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Poll app 2010 producing graph [closed]

I am creating a poll app in 2010 just wondering what the best way would be to produce a graph would be. would I be able to do it using excel
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"Open in Excel" prompt disabled when accessing workbook through office web apps

We're trying to share an excel workbook through SharePoint which sends a link through mail with "web=1" which calls for excel web access. since the document has unsupported features in OWA, it prompts ...
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Are there other SharePoint 2013 services that require classic authentication?

Reading Crawler authentication in SharePoint 2013 for STS based external website I found that NTLM is still required in SharePoint 2013 for Search Crawls. Are there other services that still require ...
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SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps - Unable to view documents after successful set up and config

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455(v=office.15).aspx We have followed the TechNet article carefully and we have been successful, however, Office documents do not open in OWA. I get ...
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Not able to view the preview of MS-Word and Excel in SharePoint 2013

I installed SharePoint 2013 on my server and when i search for the Word and Excel files. I am able to retrieve them in the search results web part but when i mouse over the Microsoft Documents i am ...
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Visio Web Access Error

I am responsible for a SharePoint 2013 farm that uses Standard CALs. As a result, we don't have a Visio service application provisioned. I have a Visio document in a document library, and when I ...
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Getting New Document button behaviour the same for Content types enabled for Office Web Apps

If I create an OOTB document library, and click on "(+) new document" button, I get a panel appearing which allows me to select a document type of Word, Excel etc. However, as soon as I turn on allow ...
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When opening documents from SP2013 in MS Office (via VPN), document not connected to server any more

I try to open a word/excel/office document from a SharePoint 2013 server. Until last week that worked fine, when opening a pptx file in Office Web Applications and then clicked on "Open in PowerPoint"...
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How many web app's

I'm certainly a newby in SharePoint but my company give me the great task to deploy it. It's a SharePoint 2013 standard installed onPremise. Our goal is to build some team sites plus personal sites. ...
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Office Web Apps shared by multiple farms

Our environment consists of 3 SharePoint 2013 farms: Production, Test and DR. The Production and DR farms are exact replicas from a physical architecture standpoint, and we are using SQL async ...
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