new office web apps story
DESCRIPTION
Office Web Applications have always been a feature that only Microsoft's EA customers could enjoy and existed in a SharePoint resident only way. With the 2013 wave of products, OWA moves out of the shadows and into the spotlight! Come join us and hear about the reimagined Office Web Applications and how they can change the way that your company collaborates. We will dive into the topology, design, new use cases, scalability concerns, management strategies, and interplay across the Microsoft stack that the new version brings to the table.TRANSCRIPT
Jason’s contact & vitals
Microsoft vTSP virtual Technology Solutions Professional
SharePoint Foundation Logger http://spflogger.codeplex.com
Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com
Twitter: @sharepointlhorn
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein
Email: [email protected]
Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint
http://bit.ly/SharePointBI
Agenda A brief history
What’s new & different?
Format Changes
New Terminology
Upgraded Functionality
SharePoint Benefits
Exchange Integration
Lync Integration
Mobile View
Licensing
High FidelityDocuments look the same, no matter where you view them –
across various browsers, platforms and devices
Office Web Apps Priorities
Extend ProductivityFamiliar Office tools and UI brings power of Office to more people in more places
Fearless CollaborationWhen writing & editing with others, file integrity is maintained with no data or formatting loss
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Office Web Apps Delivery Options
Consumer CloudPublicly available to any Live ID user
Free via SkyDrive
On PremisesRun on Office Web Apps Server
Public CloudAn option within the service
Monthly per user subscription
365
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Common Scenarios
Students & HomeShared access and editing to regularly updated group information.
Mobile WorkersAnywhere access to files and common productivity tools when Office isn't available.
Deskless WorkersProvide cost effective access to productivity tools to remote or branch employees.
Office Web Apps in SP2010 and other Wave 14 apps
3rd party apps
Office Web Apps in Wave 15
What has happened to Office Web Apps?
OWA is now stand alone. It cannot run on a SharePoint Server.
Why? Not all documents are in SharePoint
Provide unified platform for other applications as well
Benefits Large customers had numerous farms to manage in 2010 time frame
Consolidation of services to single Office Web Apps farm which provides services for multiple applications
Manage scale and performance of Office Web Apps independent of the SharePoint environment
Easier upgrade and maintenance for Office Web Apps functionality
Easier consuming of Office Web Apps functionalities without complex SharePoint federation
Easier to setup also without SharePoint – if only used for example with Exchange
Scalability with OWA “Farms”
Terminology WOPI - Web application Open Platform Interface - Direct file
operations interface between a WOPI app and a WOPI host
The Office Web Apps Server world neatly divides into two parts: WOPI Apps or WOPI Clients such as Office Web Apps Server
WOPI Hosts or WOPI Servers such as SharePoint
Office Web Apps Collaboration
With anyone with a browser
Document Review Multi-user Authoring
Change tracking
Commenting
Editing OneNote Web App
Excel Web App
PowerPoint Web App
Word Web App
Meetings
Lync Integration
Presentation Broadcast
Async Navigation
Media Playback
Productivity differences between office editions
Office 15 Client
Office Web Apps Wave 15
Open a document
Modify a document
Author a document
Best-in-class
authoring
Office Web Apps Wave 2010
Office Web Apps 15 – Productivity improvements
OneNote• Ink• Search• Image
paste
Word• Print
Layout• Smart Art
Rendering• Line and
Paragraph spacing
• Page setup
• Word Count
Excel• Print• Sheet
operations• Auto-fit
PowerPoint• Animation
s• Shapes• Inserting
text box• Styles
Office Web App URLs in Wave 15
URLs have been cleaned to be human friendly and understandable
From this:https://sentrione/clients/Generic_Client/_layouts/PowerPoint.aspx?PowerPointView=ReadingView&PresentationId=/clients/Generic_Client/Docs/Roadmap.pptx&Source=https%3A%2F%2Fsentrione%2Esentri%2Ecom%2Fclients%2FGeneric%5FClient%2FSitePages%2FHome%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
To this:https://sentrione/clients/Generic_Client/Docs/Roadmap.pptx?Web=1
Office Web Apps & UI options
”Full Screen” Embedded with different
capabilities like from web part or embedded in page
Office Web Apps Farm
Simplified Flow with SharePoint and Office Web Apps
SharePoint Farm
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Office Web App
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Exchange Integration Provides rich attachment preview functionality
Preview attachments online in full fidelity
Supported document formats: Word documents (doc, docx, dotx, dot, dotm extensions)
Excel documents (xls, xlsx, xlsm, xlm, xlsb extensions)
PowerPoint documents (ppt, pptx, pps, ppsx, potx, pot, pptm, potm, ppsm extensions)
Only available on-premises as of RTM
Lync Integration Lync Server 2013 uses Office Web Apps to handle
PowerPoint presentations Higher-resolution displays and better support for
PowerPoint capabilities such as animations, slide transitions, and embedded video.
Additional mobile devices can access these presentations. Lync Server 2013 uses standard DHTML & JavaScript to
broadcast PowerPoint presentations instead of customized DHTML and Silverlight.
Users who have appropriate privileges can scroll through a PowerPoint presentation independent of the presentation itself
Mobility Story
Never be without the tools you need.Access, work together & share from anywhere with anyone
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Mobile View The SharePoint site administrator can control whether
Office Mobile Viewers are enabled for users on the organization’s SharePoint site
Office Mobile Viewers are enabled by default
Important Licensing details Office Web Apps licensing offers two options:
View-only. By default, Office Web Apps is view-only. View-only functionality is provided for free.
Edit and view. You must purchase an editing license to use the editing features of Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013. You enable editing when you create the Office Web Apps Server farm.
Enterprise customers who are licensed for Office 2013 through a Volume Licensing program can enable Office Web Apps editing for SharePoint 2013 on-premises.
Editing licenses for Office Web Apps are not available for separate purchase.
Licensing ExamplesOn Premises Web Apps deployments
I have internal users who want to access Office documents via Office Web Apps, what licenses do I need to be compliant?
• Our company users (who are licensed for Office Client) are working with external users on projects, what licensing do those external users need to access Office documents via Office Web Apps?
*External Users: defined as users that are not either your or your affiliates’ employees, or your or your affiliates’ onsite contractors or onsite agents.
Scenario Internal User
Read Office documents via Office Web Apps
Free, no Office client required
Edit Office documents via Office Web Apps
Requires Office 2013 Standard or Professional Plus
Scenario External User*
Read Office documents via Office Web Apps
Free, no Office client required
Edit Office documents via Office Web Apps
Free, no Office client required
22For O365, please refer to www.office365.com
Special announcements New book coming for SharePoint Business
Intelligence:
Useful links Exchange Server
Office Web Apps Server Integration http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/
jj150495(v=exchg.150).aspx
Lync Configuring Integration with Office Web Apps Server and Lync
Server 2013 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204792.aspx
SharePoint Overview of Office Web Apps and how they work on-
premises with SharePoint 2013 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431685.aspx
Jason’s contact & vitals
Microsoft vTSP virtual Technology Solutions Professional
SharePoint Foundation Logger http://spflogger.codeplex.com
Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com
Twitter: @sharepointlhorn
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein
Email: [email protected]
Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint
http://bit.ly/SharePointBI