SPC14

And, see you at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas!  I'll be at the HP Booth Sunday night, and also speaking at the Partner Theatre Sunday night, then at the booth periodically throughout the event.  If you're there stop by to say hello, or schedule a meeting with my on the MySPC site.

See you in Grand Rapids!

Accepted to speak at the DevDay conference in Grand Rapids, March 22! 

http://grdevday.org/

Hope to see you there.  There's a good line up of speakers and topics, I'll be attending some of the mobile development talks.

Office Web Apps 2013 - Unhealthy

Ran into this issue on my lab servers.  I installed Office Web Apps 2013, configured it, all good!  But then Windows Update showed a patch from 1/2/14 for OWA, I applied that, and afterwards, Get-OfficeWebAppsMachine showed that my server was Unhealthy.

I did some Binging and found that indeed yes, there is a process to follow for patching an OWA server - first, remove the OWA server from the farm with Remove-OfficeWebAppsMachine, then apply the update, then use the New-OfficeWebAppsFarm again to rebuild the farm. 

Following a comment in a host here:  http://michaelvh.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/the-curious-health-problems-of-the-office-web-apps-server/

I enabled HTTP Activation for the WCF Services for the .Net Framework 4.5 on the OWA server.  Since I'm running Server 2012, I needed to use the Features option on Server Configuration to get this working:

 

 

Did a reboot for good measure, now Get-OfficeWebAppsMachine shows Healthy!