Tag: #apps

[SP2013] SharePoint add-ins in DR farms

When setting up a second SharePoint farm for disaster recovery purposes, there are all kinds of things to take into consideration. Most of those are perfectly covered in other blogs and on TechNet. With the new app add-in model though, there is one additional factor to take into account: appsadd-ins! When in case of a disaster

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SP2013: SharePoint hosted app, getting to your lists

As described in my previous post, a SharePoint app gets its own Web instance in which it lives. For the SharePoint engine, that means getting rid of your app is easy: just delete the web and everything is gone. The web gives you the option to deploy regular SharePoint stuff like lists and columns. But

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SP2013: App deployment within your organisation

In this previous post I talked a bit about the new SharePoint app model. I started playing around with the examples on MSDN and succeeeded in producing an actual working app. Great. All of this is done within a special developer portal (which is well documented in the MSDN getting started articles). You open a

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SP2013: Proxy problems with SharePoint 2013 apps

Ok, a bit sooner as I had expected; but here’s my first tech post on SharePoint 2013. I was trying out some of the examples found on MSDN for creating SharePoint 2013 apps, such as this one: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2013-Hello-0fd15fbf. I kept on running into several problems; beginning with the infamous “object reference not set to an

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SP2013: apps versus sandbox

Hi SharePoint friends! It’s been a while. The last few months I was changing jobs (more about that in a seperate blog post) and taking vacation. Just before that, Microsoft released the first bits of SharePoint 2013. As is the case with 2010; this new version comes in two flavours: an on-premise installed version for

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