Installing and configuring Office Web Apps – Part 2

This post is part of a series.

Installing and configuring Office Web Apps – Part 1 – About Office Web Apps installatino and service application proxy group configuration

Installing and configuring Office Web Apps – Part 2 – This article

Exploring Office Web Apps

I have deployed Office Web Apps into my test farm. I use two web applications, letitknow and letitknowext with two different proxy groups as following:

Proxy groups and web apps

Installing and configuring Office Web Apps – Part 1

This post is part of a series.

Installing and configuring Office Web Apps – Part 1 – This article

Installing and configuring Office Web Apps – Part 2 – about cache configuration and OWA related features

Big picture

I have a SharePoint farm with 2 servers. I would like to introduce Office Web Apps into the farm and offer the services for a web application, mainly the external sites, but leaving the internal sites as they are. I also want to separate the OWA cache from my content database. My plan is to run OWA services only on one host.

Planned service applications look like this:

Planned Service applications infrastructure