Phew. Thank God for Kernel Data Recovery – an awesome recovery tool that saved my day. Here is what happened – I was working on a presentation for a client, the PPT had already reached about 21 slides when the catastrophe happened. Suddenly my computer threw a BSOD and restarted. I logged in to my computer after restarting and could not access my data hard drive. At that point in time, it was obvious that…
As continued from Part 1. 4.4. Configure SSL Certificates for OWA HTTPS We are using Active Directory Certificate Service to issue web Server Certificates for our OWA Farm which will only be trusted and validated within the domain Network. For External Networks such as the internet, you need to purchase a genuine SSL Certificate from a Third party vendor such as Verisign. If you use Internal Certificates (Such as the one used…
It is hard to find a proper documentation online under this topic so I thought of posting this article as I’ve experienced Office Web Apps 2013 Deployment in Production. If you are not a browser fan, you can download PDF version of my Article from Microsoft Technet Gallery – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Setting-up-Multi-Server-23e1f2ca Contents 1. Introduction 2. Server Environment 3. Requirements and Recommendations 4. Deployment 1. Introduction Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013 is now a fully isolated far that supports multiple…
As a matter of fact, it’s a pretty common error in the SharePoint environment and there are many blog articles cover the same issue; but this scenario is quite different. This error is a common output for many reasons to the point that it needs some effort to drill down to the source. It clearly states that your SharePoint Farm is not properly configured for outgoing email (sometimes this is not the reason) and the list…
Word, PDF, PPT Cannot be Opened but Excel, OneNote: Resolving an Extremely Strange Behavior of Office Web Apps 2013 In this scenario, we will be using a freshly installed Office Web Apps 2013 (With SP1) Farm Configured with two nodes – load balanced with Windows NLB and secured via SSL as HTTPS. After all the configuration in OWA Farm and WOPI binding on SharePoint, Excel Files opens perfectly on browser but strangely enough, Word, Excel,…
