Installing Office Web Apps Server for SharePoint 2013

Install Office Web Apps Server

1)  The Operating System on the Server for installing OWA is Windows Server 2012.Login to the Office Web Apps Server as local administrator.

2) Run the pre-requisite on the Windows PowerShell. Right click Windows PowerShell and login as administrator)

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices

3) Go to Microsoft Download center to download Microsoft Office Web Apps Server. Copy the file to the local machine desktop.

4) Double click on the image file and click on the setup.exe file

5) Click on “I accept the terms of this agreement” and click Continue.

6) Choose the location for the file and click Install Now.

9) Installation progress is shown below.

7) Click Close.

8) The server certificate is installed on the server. After the certificate installation ,this is verified by going to IIS Manager ->Server Certificates ->

9) The certificate details are listed below.

  

10) In this step we will create the Office Web Apps Server farm .Open windows PowerShell ->Run as Administrator

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalURL "https://server.contoso.com -CertificateName "Web OWA" –EditingEnabled

 11) To verify that the Office Web Apps Server farm was created successfully, browse to this URL

https://server.contoso.com/hosting/discovery

The binding of SharePoint to Office Web apps Server is done in a different post 
(Binding SharePoint 2013 with Office Web Apps Server)