Hotfix for Office Web Apps Server (WAC/WAS) 2013

Windows 8.1 (IE 11) and Lync Server 2013 now work together

New products and technologies are ever evolving and at times the new technologies do not play nice with the older technologies. Thus was the case with Windows 8.1 and Lync Server 2013 meetings involving PowerPoint presentations. The Office Web Apps Server (aka WAC or WAS server) was incompatible with Internet Explorer 11 – the default browser technology in Windows 8.1.

This past week Microsoft has released a patch for the current build of the WAC server which resolves the issue. As with previous patching of WAC, the process to do so requires the removal of the current settings, applying the patching, and then recreate your settings.

This does sound worse than it is and for a single server farm you would:

from an Elevated Office PowerShell command
Get-OfficeWebAppsFarm (ensure this is the correct server and document settings)
Remove-OfficeWebAppMachine
Apply the Patch
New-OfficeWebAppsFarm –InternalURL (whatever the settings were before, enter here)

The patch, like all preceding, is a patch to the RTM code and as such I have included the link for that download as well. The November patch is the latest and greatest and is in the table as well. A reboot is not supposed to be required but do not be surprised if it is.

Product

Version

KBs

Download

Office Web Apps Server 2013 RTM

1.0

 

MS Download

Office Web Apps Server 2013 November

1.0 November

2837634

MS Download

Additional Notes:
Lync Server 2010 build number is 4.0.7577.223
Lync 2010 Client build number is 4.0.7577.4409
Lync Server 2013 build number is 5.0.8308.556
Lync 2013 Client build number is 15.0.4551.1005
Lync Group Chat build number is 4.0.7577. 4409
Lync Group Chat Server build number 4.0.7577. 4409
Lync Group Chat Admin build number 4.0.7577. 4409
Lync Attendee build number is 4.0.7577.4356
Lync Attendant build number is 4.0.7577.4098
Lync Phone Editions build number is 4.0.7577.4414 (except CX700)
Lync Phone Edition CX700 build number 4.0.5755.4411
Lync 2010 for iPhone build number 4.7
Lync 2010 for iPad build number 4.7
Lync 2010 for Android build number 4.0.6509.3001
Lync 2013 for Windows Phone build number is 5.2.1072.0
Lync 2013 for iPad build number is 5.2
Lync 2013 for iPhone build number is 5.2
Lync 2013 for Android build number 5.1.0000
Lync Basic 2013 build number is 15.0.4420.1017
Lync VDI 2013 build number is 15.0.4420.1017