February 2015

SharePoint-App On-Premise

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:41

A new tutorial is completed: How to write a High Trust-App for SharePoint for non C# languages. The tutorial highlights how to access the API with the Bearer-Auth-Token.

High trust apps for SharePoint on premise with node.js

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:34

Run the app

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:32

Now it is time for the application to access the SharePoint server. You can find all files within the repository on GitHub: https://github.com/ErikWegner/hightrust-sharepoint-node.js

The source code of the app

App registration

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:31

Register the certificate

In this step we tell SharePoint to trust our certificate. The necessary commands are listed in MSDN and must be run inside SharePoint Management Shell.

Create certificate

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:29

To authorize access to the SharePoint API you have to send a an authorization token. The token contains a cryptographic signature that is validated by the SharePoint server. This procedure needs a certificate, that can be generated by one of the two ways.

Requirements

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:27

This list tells you what software and pieces of information are required to follow the tutorial.

Introduction, purpose, objective

Submitted by Erik Wegner on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 20:24

This tutorial describes how to run a Node.JS app that is accessing a SharePoint server on premise. The app uses the new SharePoint 2013 app model to talk to the SharePoint server locally without the Office Store.

Why do you want to run a provider hosted app in your own data centre? Because