Use Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013

 

Applies to: Office Web Apps, SharePoint Foundation 2013, SharePoint Server 2013

Summary: Contains articles that will help you learn how to deploy and configure Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2013 on-premises.

Audience: IT Professionals

When used with SharePoint 2013 on-premises, Office Web Apps provides updated versions of Word Web App, Excel Web App, PowerPoint Web App, and OneNote Web App. Users can view and optionally edit Office documents by using a supported web browser on computers and on different mobile devices, such as Windows Phones, iPhones, and iPads. In addition to new features in Office Web Apps, the architecture and deployment methods have also changed, which allow Office Web Apps to provide viewing functionality for Lync Server 2013.

The articles in the following table are intended for IT Pros who plan to configure SharePoint 2013 to use Office Web Apps on-premises in their organizations.

Office Web Apps articles on TechNet

Article	Description
How Office Web Apps work on-premises with SharePoint 2013	Provides information about Office Web Apps, how to obtain them, and how they work on-premises with SharePoint 2013.
What's new with Office Web Apps when used with SharePoint 2013?	Describes new features available to SharePoint 2013 users and admins when using Office Web Apps.
Plan Office Web Apps (Used with SharePoint 2013)	Provides planning guidance for Office Web Apps when it is used with SharePoint 2013.
Configure Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2013	Provides information about how to configure SharePoint 2013 to use Office Web Apps in a test environment.
Set the default open behavior for browser-enabled documents (Office Web Apps when used with SharePoint 2013)	Provides information about how to configure the default open behavior for Office documents in SharePoint site collections and document libraries.
Video: Configure Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2013	Walks you through the nine main steps for configuring an Office Web Apps Server farm to work with SharePoint 2013.
Technical reference for Office Web Apps (with SharePoint 2013)	Provides links to technical reference articles, such as help for the SPWOPI Windows PowerShell cmdlets for Office Web Apps.

Other Office resources for IT pros

	Newly published content	See the following article for a list of new or recently updated Office Web Apps articles. Newly published content for Office Web Apps and Office Web Apps Server
	Getting started	Download Office Web Apps Server. Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) To download Office Web Apps Server you must have a license, under a Volume Licensing agreement, for Office Professional Plus 2013, Office Standard 2013, or Office for Mac 2011. The download is located under those Office products on the VLSC portal. Download the language packs for Office Web Apps Server. Microsoft Download Center Explore these links to learn how to implement Office Web Apps Server and SharePoint 2013. Deploy the infrastructure: Office Web Apps Server SharePoint 2013
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