Office Web Apps Server

Although not a Lync Server role in itself, a new server product that is very much a dependency for conferencing in Lync Server 2013 is the Office Web Apps Server. The purpose of the Office Web Apps Server is to deliver browser-based versions of Microsoft Office applications. The service is designed to work with products that support Web Application Open Platform Interface protocol (WOPI). Lync Server 2013 is among the first Microsoft applications to leverage the Office Web Apps Server, along with SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013. A single Office Web Apps Server instance or farm can provide browser-based file viewing and editing of Office documents for all of these applications.

For Lync Server 2013 specifically, one Office Web Apps Server is required for any deployment in which conferencing is enabled, and is used to deliver enhanced PowerPoint presentations that are streamed to the Front End Server. This provides several advantages over previous versions of Lync for such conferencing scenarios. For example, higher-resolution displays are now available, and a wider range of mobile devices are supported.


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With previous versions of Lync, PowerPoint presentations could be viewed by using either the embedded PowerPoint Viewer or dynamic HTML and Silverlight, depending on the client used. These methods presented several limitations; for example, the embedded PowerPoint viewer is available only for Windows, and Silverlight is not supported with many popular mobile devices. The Office Web Apps Server overcomes these limitations, and also supports newer PowerPoint features, such as slide transitions and embedded video.


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