Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Interested in the thought of internally hosting the Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps? Here’s an IT Guide for ya…

Microsoft Downloads - Guide for IT Pros for Microsoft Office Web Apps Beta

“Provides information to help IT pros understand an Office Web Apps on-premises solution.

File Name: OfficeWebAppsAll.doc
Version: 1
Date Published: 4/18/2010
Language: English
Download Size: 766 KB


This document supports a preliminary release of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. The content in the book covers information about how to understand and use Microsoft Office Web Apps Beta.

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From the Doc;

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Abstract

This document supports a preliminary release of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. The content in the book covers information about how to plan, configure, deploy, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot installations of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. The documentation is intended for IT professionals who plan, implement, and maintain Office installations in their organizations.

For current content that supports the released version of Microsoft Office 2010, see Office Web Apps 2010 technical library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=181453).

Contents

Getting help    vii

Office Web Apps Beta (Installed on SharePoint 2010 Products    1

Newly published Office Web Apps content for    2
Published the week of February 22, 2010    2
Updated the week of February 22, 2010    2

Understanding Office Web Apps (Installed on SharePoint 2010 Products)    3
Office Web Apps versions    3
Integration with SharePoint    4
Understanding the Office Web Apps user experience    4
Viewing and editing Office documents    4
Improving the user experience with Silverlight    5
Configuring the default open behavior for browser enabled documents    5
Understanding Office Web Apps architecture    5
Understanding how Office Web Apps work    7
Viewing and editing Word documents using the Word Web App    7
Viewing and editing PowerPoint presentations using the PowerPoint Web App    7
PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show presentations using the PowerPoint Web App    8
Viewing and editing Excel workbooks using the Excel Web App    9
Viewing and editing OneNote notebooks using the OneNote Web App    9

Planning Office Web Apps in your organization    9
Deploying Office Web Apps in your organization    10
Summary    10
Planning Office Web Apps (Installed on SharePoint 2010 Products)    11
Plan software prerequisites    11
Plan browser support    12
Plan mobile device support    13
Plan server distribution    13
Plan default open behavior for documents    15
Plan Office Web Apps Feature activation    15
Worksheet    16
Summary    16

Deploy Office Web Apps (Installed on SharePoint 2010 Products)    17
Understanding Office Web Apps deployment    18
Install and configure Office Web Apps on an existing stand-alone SharePoint server    19
  Run Office Web Apps setup    19
  Run PSConfig to register the services    19
  Start the service instances    20
  Create the service applications and the service application proxies    21
  Activate the Office Web Apps Feature    22
Install and configure Office Web Apps on a new stand-alone SharePoint server    24
  Run Office Web Apps setup    24
  Run PSConfig to register the services, start the service instances, create the service applications and proxies, and activate the Office Web Apps Feature    24
Install and configure Office Web Apps on an existing SharePoint server farm    25
  Run Office Web Apps setup    25
  Run PSConfig to register services    25
  Start the service instances    26
  Create the service applications and the service application proxies    27
  Activate the Office Web Apps Feature    29
Install and configure Office Web Apps on a new SharePoint server farm    30
  Run Office Web Apps setup    30
  Run PSConfig to register services    31
  Run the SharePoint Farm Configuration Wizard to start the service instances, create the service applications and proxies, and activate the Office Web Apps Feature    31
Additional configuration (optional)    32
  Configure the SharePoint default open behavior for browser-enabled documents    32
  Troubleshooting    33

PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show    35

Understanding Broadcast Slide Show    36
Broadcast Slide Show Overview    36
Understanding the presenter experience    37
Understanding the attendee experience    37
Broadcast Slide Show features    37
Managing Broadcast Slide Show    38
Broadcast Slide Show and Microsoft Live Meeting    38
Summary    39

Planning Broadcast Slide Show (Office Web Apps)    40
Plan service types    40
Plan broadcast site location    41
Plan permissions    42
Use Group Policy to manage Broadcast Slide Show    42
Summary    42

Configure a Broadcast site (Office Web Apps)    43
Configure a PowerPoint Broadcast site    43
Configure Broadcast Slide Show performance (Office Web Apps)    47
Deploy a dedicated SharePoint server farm    47
Configure broadcast capacity    48
Configure the polling interval    49
Modify throttling to limit Web front-end resource usage    50
Change the maximum duration of a broadcast    51
Set a time limit for idle broadcasts    51

Configure Group Policy settings (Broadcast Slide Show)    53
Manage Broadcast Slide Show by using Group Policy    53
Disable Broadcast Slide Show by using Group Policy    53

Manage Office Web Apps (Installed on SharePoint 2010 Products)    55

Activate the Office Web Apps Feature on site collections    56
Activate the Office Web Apps Feature for a site collection    56

Manage the Office Web Apps cache    59
Manage the Office Web Apps cache    59

Configure the default open behavior for browser-enabled documents (Office Web Apps)    62
Configure the default open behavior for documents    62

Configure PowerPoint service application settings    66
Configure the PowerPoint service application settings    66
Set maximum worker processes by using Windows PowerShell    67

Configure Word Viewing service settings    69
Configure the Word Viewing service application settings    69
Set maximum worker processes by using Windows PowerShell    70

Configure Excel Services Application settings (Office Web Apps)    72

Technical reference (Office Web Apps)    73

Windows PowerShell for Office Web Apps    74
SharePoint 2010 Products administration by using Windows PowerShell    75
Overview    75
Accessing Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Products    75
Permissions    76
Learning Windows PowerShell    77

Windows PowerShell for Office Web Apps reference    79

Excel Web App cmdlets    80

Office Web Apps cmdlets    82

System Center Operations Manager knowledge articles (Office Web Apps)    83

Merge failures high (Microsoft OneNote Web App)    84

Request processing slow (Microsoft OneNote Web App)    85

PowerPoint document high download time (Microsoft PowerPoint Web App)    86

PowerPoint high number of queued conversion requests (Microsoft PowerPoint Web App)    87

PowerPoint high rate of "No Available Server" errors (Microsoft PowerPoint Web App)    89

PowerPoint high rate of cache write operations (Microsoft PowerPoint Web App)    91

PowerPoint rate of BroadcastGetData requests too high (Microsoft PowerPoint Web App)    93

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I dig the idea of having the Office Web apps inside my firewall. This way I can use it for internal/confidential documents without fighting with the security police.

Now all I need is to get SharePoint 2010 on the rollout schedule… (sigh)

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