Enabling PowerPoint Automation Services

In Chapter 3, Managing and Maintaining a SharePoint Farm, you learned how to enable service applications. However, the PowerPoint Automation Services application is not listed:

The PowerPoint Automation Services application must be enabled via the SharePoint Management Shell (if it was not already enabled during MinRole setup). To configure it, follow these steps:

1. Launch an elevated SharePoint Management Shell.
2. Run the following command to create the service application instance:

New-SPPowerPointConversionServiceApplication -Name "PowerPoint Automation Service Application" -ApplicationPool "SharePoint Web Services Default"

3. Run the following command to create the service application proxy instance:

New-SPPowerPointConversionServiceApplicationProxy -Name "PowerPoint Automation Service Application Proxy" -ServiceApplication "PowerPoint Automation Service Application" –AddtoDefaultGroup

4. On the servers...