Provider hosted app

                                                Provider Hosted apps

• Provider hosted apps are very similar to SharePoint hosted app
• App components are live outside of the SharePoint farm.
• Provider hosted apps are cloud based or dedicated server.

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Use a client secret(ACS)
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Use a certificate
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Advantages:

• Provider hosted apps are can be hosted on Azure or any remote web platform including non Microsoft platform.
• This also allows leverage SharePoint components, and resources and services on the remote site.

Configure the Domain Name in DNS:

App URL:

 http://app-12345abcdef

App Domain creation:

Addition to DNS:

1. Apps require a wildcard DNS Entry
2. No way to determine app ID before its prvoisined
3. Would require a new DNS entry for every app

We have to forward to create new lookup zone the domain and wildcard DNS entry

Service Applications:

• Configure the Domain Name in DNS Manager
• Create the New zone in DNS Manager
• Create the New Alias(CNAME)

We can test our Domain in command prompt used by ping

I.e:  ping 123abc.mydomain-apps.com

if we received 0 Lost then that's good, this means i have domain and good to go.

 Create webapp for Apps Using SSL:

Get an SSL Certificate

Install the certificate

Set the web application bindings

Can i use REST or CSOM or both?
 A:  Yes
Can i Use server side code and Client side code at a same time?
 A: No
How does Branding work?
Using a Chrome control
How does security work?
Using OAuth or S2S Trust