What IT Professionals Need to Know About SharePoint Apps

Covenant Technology Partners

Mike Henthorn

Introductions

Mike Henthorn – mhenthorn@mailctp.com Covenant Technology Partners

Manager Platform Services

Architect

SharePoint since 2005 (WSS 2.0)

Blog: http://mhenthorn.blogspot.com

Twitter me! http://twitter.com/mhenthorn

Agenda

• Overview of Apps in SharePoint

• App Management

• Infrastructure Considerations

• Configuring an on-premises farm for Apps

• Apps lifecycle management

• Apps monitoring

• Questions

• Conference reminders

Overview of Apps

Evolution of SharePoint

Why Apps in SharePoint?

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What are Apps in SharePoint?

Sites

Pages

Apps

Your SharePoint Apps

SharePoint Store

Add an App

App Management

App hosting options

Your domain’s

https://uatportal.covenant.net

https://*.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net

App URL in SharePoint

App prefix

App ID

App domainHost web

App name

Infrastructure Considerations

Your App domain Name

Option #1

Use a Completely New Domain Namehttps://app-bdf2016ea7dacb.covenantapps.com

Option #2

Use a Sub Domain of an Existing Domainhttps://devapp-f4cd4a854bebac.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net

Option #3

What about my Host Web Domainhttps://uatportal.covenant.net

DNS domain names

New Domain Name*.covenantapps.com

Sub Domain Name*.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net

App Namehttps://devapp-f4cd4a854bebac.covenantapps.com

Certificates.. SSL..

Create/Purchase a new “Wildcard” SSL Certificate

1. With SharePoint 2013, you should be using SSL for Everything2. Especially for your Apps as the Authentication/Authorization process rely’s on

OAuth

SharePoint farm configuration

• App Management Service

• Subscription Settings Service

Service applications

• App URLs (App prefix and App domain)

• App Catalogue

• Store Settings

• App Domains for multiple zones

SharePoint App settings

App Domains for multiple zones

Original release (SharePoint 2013 RTM)- No Support for Web Applications that had multiple Zones.

- Only worked for Default Zone

Why would you have multiple Zones- Extranet extended

- Short Names vs FQDN (https://intranet vs https://intranet.domain.com)

- Http and Https

When did this become available..- March 2013 Public Update for SharePoint 2013 enables you to associate app

domains to different zones.

How do you do it.. PowerShell

Steps to do this:

Enable the feature using PowerShell:

$contentService =

[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService

$contentService.SupportMultipleAppDomains = $true

$contentService.Update()

Create new App Domain:

New-SPWebApplicationAppDomain -AppDomain <AppDomain> -WebApplication

<WebApplicationID> -Zone <Zone> -Port <Port> -SecureSocketsLayer

Additional Considerations

Apps do not support Kerberos

Special requirements for SAML authentication

A Routing Web application may be needed

Path Based vs Host Name Site Collections

Host Named Site Collections- No Routing Web App is required as you already have a Blank NO HOST header

root Site Collection

Only used with Path Based site collections- You need a Routing Web Applications

What method for Apps does Microsoft recommend- Host Named Site Collections

- Managed with PowerShell ONLY

- How many are using Host named site collections today?

- Being on premise, why would you use this?

Routing Web application

No host header

https://devapp-5dccb04699fba9.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net/sites/Demo/

*.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net =

192.168.1.2

https://intranet.domain.com

https://my.domain.com

App Management

Service Application

Load Balancer

192.168.1.2

DNSFarm

Configuring an on-premises farm for Apps

Demo will be through slides…

Create App Domain in DNS

Create DNS Redirect (CNAME)

Create DNS Redirect (CNAME)

Test DNS Resolution

Quick Look at Certificates

The App Router Web- spdevappsrouter.covenant.net

- Uses the app domain cert: *.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net

Quick Look at Certificates

The Host Web

- https://uatportal.covenant.net/sites/Demo/

SharePoint Web Applications

SharePoint Service Configurations

Create Service Applications1. App Management Service Application

2. Subscription Setting Service Application

The following Services will now be Started1. App Management Service

2. Subscription Setting Service

SharePoint Apps Configuration

SharePoint Apps Configuration

Your App Catalog

SharePoint Apps Configuration

Demo: Apps in SharePoint walkthrough

Review – What did we need

Service Applications 1. App Management Service Application

2. Subscription Setting Service Application

Routing Web Application (spdevappsrouter)

Host Webs (My Site, Intranet, etc)

DNS Configurations

Wildcard Certificates 1. *.covenant.net

2. *.sharepointuatapps.covenant.net

Apps Lifecycle Management

Installing an App

Timer Job:• App Installation Service

• (Happens pretty quickly)

Cmdlets:• Import-SPAppPackage

• Install-SPApp

• Uninstall-SPAppInstance

Manage Licensing

Timer Job:• License renewal

Powershell for DR:$appProxy = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy “AppManagementProxyId”

$appProxy.GetDeploymentID()

Set-SPAppManagementDeploymentID

Backup and Restore

Site backup and restore:- Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite

- (this will backup the app)

Site exports do not include app assets:- Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb

App exports:- Export-SPAppPackage

- (you can export and reimport app)

Upgrading Apps

Site administrators are responsible for upgrading Apps

Notification state needs to be updated by SharePoint first

Timer Jobs:

• App State Update

• Internal App State Update

Cmdlets:• Get-SPAppStateUpdateInterval

• Get-SPAppStateSyncLastRunTime

• Set-SPAppStateUpdateInterval

• Update-SPAppInstance

App Monitoring

Monitoring and logging

• App usage/Error details

• Timer Jobs

Monitoring in Central Admin

• App usage/Error detailsMonitoring in

Site Collections

• App Management, App Monitoring, Azure Access Control, App Marketplace, Marketplace Web Service

Logging Categories

Monitoring and logging

Questions

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A Few Reminders

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• Thank our sponsors

Have a great time!

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