1. Intro to Apps Minnesota SharePoint User Group Raymond Mitchell@iwkidwww.iwkid.com@iwkidwww.iwkid.com April 2014

2. Agenda What are Apps for SharePoint What’s needed to run Apps for SharePoint Under the hood What’s needed to build Apps for SharePoint Q&A Goal - understand what SharePoint Apps are, aren’t, and how you can begin using them in your organization 2

3. @iwkid linkedin.com/in/iwkid Raymond Mitchell Independent Consultant Owner of IWSPACE, LLC Specialize in SharePoint & Information Worker Technologies SharePointing since 2001 www.iwkid.com www.iwspace.com 3

4. What are Apps? General Info 4

5. Apps, Apps, Apps Windows 8 Windows Phone Xbox One SharePoint Office 5

6. Why Apps? Familiar model (for users) Custom (managed) code on the server is risky  Performance  Upgrade  Microsoft says “not on my cloud you don’t!” SharePoint is evolving – faster and faster  Apps offload customizations from the SharePoint server 6

7. What are Apps? Add functionality to a site 7

8. What are NOT Apps? Lists Libraries Web Parts 8

9. Where do you get Apps? App Store  Managed by Microsoft App Catalog  Managed by your Organization 9

10. Who can add Apps? Site Owners  Manage Web site and Create Subsites permissions Must grant permission / trust 10

11. Adding Apps 11 DEMO

12. What’s needed? Administrators 12

13. What’s needed? Office 365 & SharePoint Online Good to go! Ok, mostly… 13

14. What’s needed? On-Premises Service Applications (and related services on server)  App Management Service Application  Subscription Settings Service DNS entries SSL (recommended for production) 14

15. What’s needed? Hosted & On-Premises Configure the App Catalog (Site) 15

16. Configuring Apps 16 DEMO

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23. Configuring the App Catalog On-Premises 23 DEMO

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26. Configuring the App Catalog Office 365 26 DEMO

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29. Under the hood General Info 29

30. UX Design for Apps Multiple ways to implement your App’s UX in SharePoint 30

31. Application Hosting Options 31 SharePoint- Hosted Apps Provider- Hosted Apps Auto-Hosted Apps

32. Application Hosting Options 32 SharePoint- Hosted Apps Provider- Hosted Apps Auto-Hosted Apps Automatically hosted in SharePoint  Creates an App Web under the Host Web No server-side code involved – only JavaScript / scripting Application Data is stored in SharePoint Lists

33. Application Hosting Options 33 SharePoint- Hosted Apps Provider- Hosted Apps Auto-Hosted Apps App code is deployed *somewhere* Can execute server-side code Application Data can be stored anywhere User experience is responsibility of the App developer  Some tools to help implement portions of the SharePoint UX

34. Application Hosting Options 34 SharePoint- Hosted Apps Provider- Hosted Apps Auto-Hosted Apps Same as the Provider-Hosted Apps  Automatically deployed to Azure  Facilitates development of Provider-Hosted Apps  Mostly used for Development

35. App Web URLs http:// app- 98f0a4b67b2129.devapps.lab.local /sites/SPSTC/AEDailyDilbertApp/Pages/Default.aspx ?SPHostUrl= http://portal/sites/SPSTC &SPLanguage=en-US &SPClientTag=0 &SPProductNumber=15.0.4420.1017 &SPAppWebUrl=http://app-98f0a4b67b2129.devapps.lab.local/sites/SPSTC/AEDailyDilbertApp 35

36. .app File.zip file Contains manifest as well as.wsp file 36

37. Building Apps Developers 37

38. Office 365 Developer Subscription Visual Studio Ultimate and Premium comes with 1-year Office 365 subscription Already have an E1/E3 Office 365 subscription? Add a Dev site collection Buy a developer subscription $99/year Get your developer tenant at:  http://dev.office.com http://dev.office.com 38

39. Developer Site Template Used to facilitate “side-loading” of Apps (via F5 Deployment) for easy testing Acts as a sandbox App Catalog Available on-premises and in Office 365 39

40. Office 365 Developer Sites Napa  Free browser-based developer tool  Available in Office 365  Distributed as a SharePoint 2013 app  Allows you to create SharePoint 2013 apps  *very* powerful  Can export (one-way!) to Visual Studio 40

41. Napa 41 DEMO

42. Visual Studio Template for creating Provider-Hosted Apps Template for creating CBAs (LightSwitch) 42

43. Visual Studio 43 DEMO?

44. Access Services Requires Access Services (SharePoint Server Enterprise licensing) or Office 365 All new in 2013 – now creates SharePoint Apps Come learn more at next month’s MNSPUG! 44

45. Chrome Control For Provider-Hosted apps 45

46. Interacting with SharePoint CSOM Greatly expanded JavaScript client object model in SharePoint 2013 Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/office/jj163201 46

47. Interacting with SharePoint CSOM 47

48. Interacting with SharePoint REST 48 http://server/site/_api/lists/getbytitle('listname')

49. Resources Apps for Office and SharePoint blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/ Office Dev Center – Apps for SharePoint http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448479 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448479 Developer Training – Apps for SharePoint http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448488 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448488 Apps for Office & SharePoint samples http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps?WT.mc_Id=SPO_NA_O365DevSK U_Home_Samples http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps?WT.mc_Id=SPO_NA_O365DevSK U_Home_Samples 49

50. Getting Started – Dev Center 50

51. Dev Training 51

52. Sample Apps! 52

53. Info Graphics! 53

54. Resources SharePoint Conference 2014 Videos http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014 Build Conference 2014 Videos http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build My Blog http://www.iwkid.com http://www.iwkid.com 54

55. Questions? Raymond Mitchell@iwkidwww.iwkid.com@iwkidwww.iwkid.com 55