Sharepoint 2013 Manage Service Applications - Missing PowerPoint Automation Services

Question

We just did a fresh SharePoint 2013 farm installation and want to manually configure the service applications used - we are not using the Farm Configuration Wizard.

The issue we are facing is that PowerPoint Automation Services does not appear in Central Administration->Application Management->Manage Service Applications->New menu dropdown - but Word Automation Services and other service applications do.

How do you create a new PowerPoint Automation Service application and proxy for Sharepoint 2013?

Answer 1

It turns out that some SharePoint service applications do not appear under the Application Management->Manage Service Applications->New dropdown menu because Microsoft chose not to add them.

In order to create them - you cannot use CA, you must rely on PowerShell as discussed in this MS TechNet post.

PowerShell to Create PowerPoint Service Application and Proxy

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