Making Sharepoint 2013 apps configurable

Hi,
We have created a sharepoint provider hosted app which adds a custom action to all the documents in the document library. Once the user clicks the action, sharepoint redirects the user to our existing product (running on apache tomcat). Our product then uses
OAuth and Rest Api to read information from sharepoint online. Now the issue is that the app would deployed to our customers on a per customer basis. We can't put the app on the marketplace as our product doesn't support multiple tenancy. We will provide the
.app files to the customers which they can deploy to their sharepoint. Currently we have to provide App Id and App Secret while publishing the app. How can the customers modify the app files to change the app id , app secret and the redirect url of the
app without using visual studio or any programming tool
Thanks
Pranava

Hi,
You could access below link may be that can help.
You could specify the properties atleast, I do not know can you really change the app secret and app id too.
http://www.sharemuch.com/2013/01/13/adding-app-part-properties-in-sharepoint-2013-hosted-apps/

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According to your description, my understanding is that you encountered an authentication error
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http://sharepointchick.com/archive/0001/01/01/setting-up-your-app-domain-for-sharepoint-2013.aspx
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Your contoso-apps.com
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Sharepoint 2013 app store issue i am unable to add apps on other web application

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optimal, but it’s a workaround. For SPS 2013 this should work without changing the connection strings, as you would have to with SPS 2010.
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Using SPServices and Knockout JS in SharePoint 2013 Apps

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I would like to develop App for SharePoint 2013 (which will be published to Microsoft SharePoint Store) which can be free and paid . Can I use javascript / client libraries like SPServices from CodePlex , JQuery, Knockout JS and Angularjs in my Apps
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Yes, you can use any client side technology as long it can call SharePoint API and parse result.
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Typical business case scenarios for SharePoint 2013 Apps

What are the typical real time business case scenario for 1. SharePoint Hosted apps 2. Auto Hosted apps 3. provider hosted Apps? Why people choose any of this model apps model in comparison to typical On-Premise solution?
Another question comes is when should one go for On-Premise solution rather than Apps? What are real time scenarios?

Let's discuss first whether to develop apps or full trust solution.
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developing full trust solution on premise.
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to develop apps depends on the Apps API ability. The API is still very limited in features/functionalities. So even if your requirement looks like apps you can't develop apps if the current SharePoint Apps API doesn't support the functionality.
Now let's talk about which apps model you would like to use SharePoint Hosted apps means everything hosted inside SharePoint and no other external infrastructure is required. One example is the CSV file upload apps. However, with SharePoint hosted apps,
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covert them to pdf file. Basically the conversion site is hosted somewhere outside (in the provider's infrastructure). When you select all the files and click 'convert' from ribbon user is redirected to the provider site (different url) and the files are merged
and converted to pdf. Since it's outside of sharepoint, you can use any development language (C#, java, php etc.). The provider hosted app talks to sharepoint through REST or client object model.
So in summary, sharepoint hosted app has less complexity as it doesn't require another infrastructure and runs inside sharepoint. However you are limited to use only javascript to develop your apps. On the other hand with provider hosted apps, you can use
any development language but you need to consider extra level of security/complexity to integrate the app with sharepoint.
Thanks,
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http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com
Thanks for this nice reply. Plz clarify if only Auto hosted apps will be deprecated or provider hosted apps also may be deprecated by MS?

Sharepoint 2013 - domain configuration, external users, creating subsite in site collection, moving subsites

Hello all, first of all thank you for reading this post. Please bare with me, I am new with this environnement. I have had several problems in past week trying to configure a local sharepoint server 2013, most of it went well but now I am stuck and I badly
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Here is my config:
Sharepoint 2013 (local)
Microsoft SQL 2012
Microsoft Server 2012
I am able to access the sub-site I created in the Sharepoint Central Administration Web Application.
My first problem is, I created another Web Application with the following URL config http://intranet.[domain].com but I am not able to access it through my browser. It seems to point to bad IP I probably configured accidentally a CNAME on my hosting Cpanel
with the IP 192.168.1.199. So, When I ping the URL I do not get any connection. Just that it couldn't connect to 192.168.1.199. Now I added a CNAME on my CPANEL for the URL http://intranet.[domain].com --> 127.0.0.1. Is this the correct way to do it?
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Create SharePoint 2013 Web Application
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7LT99eUMs
I am not too sure of the proper configuration for the IIS Manager.
Anomymous Authentication is enabled
Windows Authentication is enabled
Everything else is disabled.
My second problem is that I cannot invite any user to the site. Even the one that have the email corresponding to our domain. Will I be able to invite parent domain users if the Web Apllication is properly configured with the CNAME on the Cpanel?
I tried to activate the External user invitation feature from Site Collection Features but it's not in the list. I am logged in as an administrator but next to the wrench it says "System Account" (with an arrow pointing down) so I guess this is
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Much appreciated,
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Hello Ramu, thank you for your fast reply.
Quote Ramu: "You have to create A record called intranet.your-domain.com points to your SharePoint Server
IP and also loop back ip address in the host file entry on the SharePoint server(127.0.0.1 intranet.SharePoint.com)"
Is this a record on our corporate website Cpanel? What should I put in the "Address" field of
the Record (we do not have static IP)?
For the loop back, is this on the DNS Manager of our local Sharepoint 2013 server?
Quote Ramu: "3.
if you want to publish this externally, then your site needs to publish in your Network and it should points to your public static IP in your public domain control panel(Cpanel)."
In the first scenario where I only want intranet access, should everything be OK with the above mentionedconfiguration a DNS Record:
Which address should it be for the record?
Should I assign a fix IP to our server like 192.168.1.55?
What if another desktop computer gets an IP conflict with the server
fix IP, or what if we have to shut down the server everyday will the server IP change ?
General question: From what I understand, it is possible to put a DNS Record on the public Cpanel from our corporate website with a local IP that will only be resolved
if accessed through the local network? Ex.: Name: intranet.[our-corporate-public-domain].com, Address: 192.168.1.55 ?
Much appreciated RAMU.
Regards,
Herb

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