Microsoft updates WAC/OOS pre-req’s

Getting a new Office Web Apps or Office Online Server to report “Healthy” is no mean feat, and you’ll find no shortage of blog posts with advice in that direction.

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Hence it was with great interest that I noticed Microsoft has recently updated the pre-req’s. (OK, it was either back in May or only last month, it’s hard to tell).

Two things jumped out at me:

  • NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45 & several others have been added to the server pre-req’s. The former has been in the unofficial extras list for a while now, but the others are all new:

Server 2012 R2:

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices,NET-Framework-Features,NET-Framework-Core,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation

Server 2016:

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,NET-Framework-Features,NET-Framework-45-Features,NET-Framework-Core,NET-Framework-45-Core,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation
  • A new component is required:

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Extention.dll – https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=620072

Still reporting Unhealthy?

Wictor Wilén seems to have the definitive post on getting your WAC/OOS server healthy, but if you still draw a blank my only suggestion is to try adding the x64 and x86 versions of the VC_Redist 2013 and then “Restart-Service WACSM”.

Best of luck with it! Oh, and make sure W3SVC is running!

 

– G.

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