I want to build a 2-node OWA13 farm but have some questions i can't find answer on technet if this works and what certificate should be.
I have a domain name contoso.local
I have 2 OWA13 servers
- owaserver1.contoso.local
- owaserver2.contoso.local
First I need to create dns domain zone in AD "contoso.com"
Then I register an A-host record for the OWA13 farm "wasfarm.contoso.com" (internal and external) that point to the IP of the Network Load Balancer.
I then create a OWA13 farm on the owaserver1 with PS command:
- New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalURL https://wasfarm.contoso.com -ExternalURL https://wasfarm.contoso.com -CertificateName WacFarm
Question 1) can a OWA13 farm be created with internal url that is the NLB dns name for the 2 OWA13 servers?
Question 2) can i use a wildcard certificate ?
Question 3) if no wildcard certificate can be used which SAN should be on the SAN certificate (we want a public CA cert so contoso.local cannot be on the certificate right? should i then also create A-host record owaserver1.contos.COM and owaserver2.contoso.COM
? or don't we need servernames in the SAN certificate ? )
Now i want to join owaserver2 to the OWA farm with following PS command:
- New-OfficeWebAppsMachine -MachineToJoin wacfarm.contoso.com
Question 4) can i join owaserver2 to the farm with the above command and point to the NLB dns name for the OWA13 farm or do i specifically need to give owaserver1 after -machinejoin and not the nlb dns name?
thanks for you time and hopefully answers :-)