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Office Web Apps is a web-based version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. It includes the web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote. The web applications allow users to access their documents directly from anywhere within a web browser as well as share files and collaborate with other users online.

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Office Online Server - problems opening and creating office files online in SharePoint 2019

we have a SharePoint Farm (2WFE + 2 APP) and an OOS. On December 31st The OOS performed an unplanned restart after errors suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Unfortunately, I wasn't with this company ...
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Unable to open documents with Office Web Apps when browsing through extended Web Application

This is related to SharePoint 2019 on-premise, interfacing with ADFS and Office Online Server (formally known as Office Web Apps). I have a single-server SharePoint Farm with multiple web applications....
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Inserting CSS code to customize GUI of Sharepoint 365

We start using Sharepoint 365 (online). We used to work with Sharepoint Server 2019 (on-premise) version. Using classic interface, we tried to customize navigation of Sharepoint with CSS code but ...
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PDF fails to render correctly in Web App

I have a pdf opening from Sharepoint 2013 being displayed in the office web app. It displays text as squares instead of actual letters. The font used in the file is Arial, strangely some of the text ...
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Why office apps doesn't open in web browser in SharePoint?

I've installed Microsoft office web apps offline in the VM and also Installed SharePoint 2016 in another VM machine. Both VMs are connected to the domain. Besides, I've successfully connected ...
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No preview display in Search result after configuring Office Web Apps

I have recently configure existing Office Webs to use SSL and https url. Our configuration is 1 SharePoint server and 1 SharePoint Web Apps. In Office WebApps Server Set-OfficeWebAppsFarm -...
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Force a single user to open files in Office Online apps

A single user in my organization needs to be only able to open sharepoint-online files via browser apps. The file opening settings for the site are set to "open with desktop apps", since all ...
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SharePoint 2013 Excel Web App

On a Sharepoint2013 site, there are some excel files uploaded to the list attachments and document library. When user clicks the excel file, it prompts an error: This workbook cannot be opened ...
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PowerPoint not opening from Desktop app

I have a problem to open pptx from SharePoint Document Library modern view SharePoint online. When I click on the file nothing happens, where docs or docx and excel files opens from desktop app. This ...
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Behavior of files in Chrome / Version History (Browser vs Client Application)

We use SharePoint 2013 and Chrome (HP SureClick) as our default browser - IE/Edge are available as a fallback. Our document library is set to open files in the Client Application which works fine in ...
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Office Online documents error: the file is locked for shared use by another user

We have the following setup: SharePoint 2019 farm with 4 servers: 2 WFE servers - load balanced by an F5 LB, 2 APP servers and a connection with a 2 server Office Online Farm, also load balanced by an ...
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OWA vs OOS comparison

The company I work for is using SP2013 + OWA and is really conservative about software upgrades. I was trying to push a project to upgrade OWA to OOS, which seems to be really easy and straightforward ...
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Error 1921. Service 'Office Online' (WACSM) could not be stopped. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to stop system services

After installing the CU for Office Online Server when I run the New-OfficeWebAppsFarm command it throws this error: New-OfficeWebAppsFarm : The Office Online service did not respond in a timely ...
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Mentioning someone in a powerpoint comment will not work unless the user has Contribute

I have a power-point document published inside SharePoint document library, and we have userA who have read-only permission on the document, and if i try to mention this Read-Only user inside a power-...
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How to find office web apps server in existing farm

Today one of the SharePoint farm was handed over to me but I was not able find the office web apps server. So can anyone tell me how to find office web apps server in existing SharePoint farm.
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