Applying software updates to Office Web Apps Server


For single server farm

Please follow the below steps to install office web apps patch on a single server farm

• On the Office Web Apps Server that you want to apply the software update to, open the Windows PowerShell prompt as an administrator and run the following command.

            Remove-OfficeWebAppsMachine

• Install the Office Web Apps Server update on that server. If prompted, restart the server. For service pack 1 please download from here

• Open the Windows PowerShell prompt as an administrator and run the New-OfficeWebAppsFarm cmdlet to re-create an Office Web Apps Server farm. Use the below as an example.

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm –InternalURL "http://Neelam-OWA" –AllowHttp -EditingEnabled

Note: Perform a full crawl of the SharePoint in case you face any issues of OWA not displaying in the SharePoint search.



For multi-server farm
Please follow the below steps to install office web apps patch on a multi-server OWA farm

• On the Office Web Apps Server that you want to apply the software update to, open the Windows PowerShell prompt as an administrator and run the following command. In my case I ran the command on my primary OWAServer01

          Remove-OfficeWebAppsMachine

• Install the Office Web Apps Server update on that server. If prompted, restart the server. For service pack 1 please download from here

• Open the Windows PowerShell prompt as an administrator and run the New-OfficeWebAppsFarm cmdlet to re-create an Office Web Apps Server farm. Use the below as an example.

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm –InternalURL "http://Neelam-OWA01" –AllowHttp -EditingEnabled

• Now run the below command on the secondary OWA server. In my case I am running on OWAServer02

Remove-OfficeWebAppsMachine

• Install the Office Web Apps Server update on the OWAServer02 server. If prompted, restart the server.
• Finally run the below command to join this server to the primary OWA server.

New-OfficeWebAppsMachine –MachineToJoin “OWAServer01.neelamdc.com”

 Repeat steps remove-officewebappsmachine, install update and -machinetojoin if you have multiple OWA servers in your farm.

Note: Please perform a full crawl of the SharePoint in case you face any issues of OWA not displaying in the SharePoint search.