SharePoint Search and Excel Interactive Preview: "404 – File or directory not...
For the past several months I have worked on an issue with the Excel Interactive Preview throwing the error: "Server Error404 – File or directory not found.The resource you are looking for might have...
View Article"To start seeing preview, please log on by opening the document"
ISSUE: Document preview for SharePoint 2013 search results randomly give an error "To start seeing previews, please log on by opening the document". CAUSE: The behavior occurs because the page that we...
View ArticleClarifications on Dropbox integration with Office Online
Over the past month, we've spoken to many customers regarding our newly released Dropbox integration for Office Online. The Office announcement blog HERE does a great job of illustrating what the...
View ArticleUsing the Office Web Apps RTM installer to install on a non-system drive will...
ISSUE: The RTM installer of Office Web Apps will also create a folder on the C drive called “OneNoteMerge” when installing to another drive. The folder is not created on the specified non C drive path....
View ArticleDeploying the Office Web Apps Server 2013 –"Microsoft Office Web Apps Server...
If you are planning to deploy an Office Web Apps Farm, the following data could be useful for you in case you are encountering the "Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 Encountered an error during...
View ArticleConfigure ARR as a reverse proxy for Office Web Apps 2013 external users
With the Application Request Routing service becoming more widely used it was felt that it would be good to touch on how this can be used as a reverse proxy for Office Web App deployments. (this does...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps 2013 External Users
Hello Everyone, The point of this blog is to help you understand your options when configuring OWA to work with external users. There is one major configuration issue with this, that is that office web...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps Server 2013 with .NET 4.6+
Problem: When using .NET 4.6+ the Office viewers or op/generate.aspx will not work and give the following “This page can’t be displayed” error. Cause: The new .NET Framework version 4.6 and higher...
View ArticleOffice Online Server Showing “Unhealthy” Status
*UPDATE* The new version of Office Online Server released on 11/17/2016 has these health fixes in place. If you are still getting a OneNoteMerge health error in the event log like this: <?xml...
View ArticleMicrosoft Forms shows error “Sorry, something went wrong”
Issue: Microsoft Forms shows error "Sorry, something went wrong" for all users in a SharePoint online tenant. Fix: Microsoft Forms requires the "ColabDBService" to be enabled. The service can be...
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