Chapter 19: The Office Web Applications
What’s In This Chapter?
- Overview of OWA
- Deploying OWA
- Installing OWA
- OWA PowerShell Activation
Office Web Applications (OWA) are the web browser–based companions to the Office 2010 suite of desktop products for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. These applications enable users to access documents, and view, edit, and share content with other users across personal computers, mobile phones, and the Web using various web browsers. They are available on Windows Live at no cost to users as an ad-supported service, and for enterprise users, they can be hosted on SharePoint 2010. When enabled, these applications enhance the experience of the SharePoint user and greatly expand the possibility of collaboration.
Office Web Applications can be deployed to a SharePoint farm that has either SharePoint Foundation Services or the full SharePoint Server 2010 product installed. As the topic of this book is SharePoint Server 2010, we will be discussing the deployment of the OWA to the SharePoint Server 2010 product. This chapter begins with an overview of the OWA architecture, then walks you through the steps an administrator must take to get the OWA installed and configured. We also briefly discuss the OWA features to ensure that administrators are familiar with OWA’s capabilities and its impact on the SharePoint environment.
OWA Overview
Before you dive into the installation and configuration process, we will briefly discuss web technologies that ...
