Provider Hosted Apps - Platform Licencing

Is there any documentation on the licencing requirements for the web servers that host 'Provider-Hosted' Apps?
2 examples:
1 - If a client has 50 users on O365 including SharePoint Online, how are those users licenced for the use of the remotely hosted App
2 - If a client has on-premise SharePoint foundation (correctly licenced) do those on-premise windows CALs transfer to use the services of the remote server?
Is a server hosting an App acting as an anonymous webserver and can therefore be licenced as one, or is it providing services to named users and therefore must be licenced accordingly ? This obviously extends to SQL / SQL Express where the App requires
it's own DB access for management and tracking

The licensing requirement of the Provider hosted app is provided by the application provider it's not related to the SharePoint licenses you have
The app provider will create the app as free or paid and if it's paid he will select how much it will cost per user which is irrelevant of the usage of the app in on premise or online versions of SP
Hope that helps|Amr Fouad|MCTS,MCPD sharePoint 2010

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Hi Jerry,
I agree with Nikhil, I think you have posted partial ULS log, we could not find effective errors for the issue.
For Provider Hosted app in SharePoint server on-premise,
the TokenHelper class will try to access your Azure Security Principle by default.
Did you have a valid Azure account?
If not, the issue may be caused that you don't have a valid account, to resolve this issue, you can use
a valid Azure account or not going to use Azure Platform for hosting the app as the article
below.
http://pratapreddypilaka.blogspot.jp/2012/12/sharepoint-2013-avoiding-azure-on-dev.html
Thanks,
Jason
Jason Guo
TechNet Community Support

Retrieve data from a list in SharePoint 2013 provider hosted App using CSOM

I have developed a provider hosted app in SharePoint 2013. As you already know, Visual Studio creates web application and SharePoint app. The web application gets hosted inside IIS and the SharePoint App in SharePoint site collection. I'm trying to get
data from a list hosted in SharePoint using CSOM. But I get ran insecure content error.
here is my code in Default.aspx
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/SP.Core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/INIT.JS"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/SP.Runtime.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/SP.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/SP.RequestExecutor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/App.js"></script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<input id="Button1" type="button" value="Get title via CSOM" onclick="execCSOMTitleRequest()" /> <br />
<input id="Button2" type="button" value="Get Lists via CSOM" onclick="execCSOMListRequest()" />
</div>
<p ID="lblResultTitle"></p><br />
<p ID="lblResultLists"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
and App.js is:
var hostwebUrl;
var appwebUrl;
// Load the required SharePoint libraries
$(document).ready(function () {
//Get the URI decoded URLs.
hostwebUrl =
decodeURIComponent(
getQueryStringParameter("SPHostUrl")
appwebUrl =
decodeURIComponent(
getQueryStringParameter("SPAppWebUrl")
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// web_url/_layouts/15/resource
var scriptbase = hostwebUrl + "/_layouts/15/";
// Load the js files and continue to the successHandler
//$.getScript(scriptbase + "/MicrosoftAjax.js",
// function () {
// $.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.Core.js",
// function () {
// $.getScript(scriptbase + "INIT.JS",
// function () {
// $.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.Runtime.js",
// function () {
// $.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.js",
// function () { $.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.RequestExecutor.js", execCrossDomainRequest); }
function execCrossDomainRequest() {
alert("scripts loaded");
function getQueryStringParameter(paramToRetrieve) {
var params = document.URL.split("?")[1].split("&");
var strParams = "";
for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i = i + 1) {
var singleParam = params[i].split("=");
if (singleParam[0] == paramToRetrieve)
return singleParam[1];
function execCSOMTitleRequest() {
var context;
var factory;
var appContextSite;
var collList;
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context = new SP.ClientContext(appwebUrl);
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context.set_webRequestExecutorFactory(factory);
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appContextSite = new SP.AppContextSite(context, hostwebUrl);
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this.web = context.get_web();
//Load Web.
context.load(this.web);
context.executeQueryAsync(
Function.createDelegate(this, successTitleHandlerCSOM),
Function.createDelegate(this, errorTitleHandlerCSOM)
//success Title
function successTitleHandlerCSOM(data) {
$('#lblResultTitle').html("<b>Via CSOM the title is:</b> " + this.web.get_title());
//Error Title
function errorTitleHandlerCSOM(data, errorCode, errorMessage) {
$('#lblResultLists').html("Could not complete CSOM call: " + errorMessage);
function execCSOMListRequest() {
var context;
var factory;
var appContextSite;
var collList;
//Get the client context of the AppWebUrl
context = new SP.ClientContext(appwebUrl);
//Get the ProxyWebRequestExecutorFactory
factory = new SP.ProxyWebRequestExecutorFactory(appwebUrl);
//Assign the factory to the client context.
context.set_webRequestExecutorFactory(factory);
//Get the app context of the Host Web using the client context of the Application.
appContextSite = new SP.AppContextSite(context, hostwebUrl);
//Get the Web
this.web = context.get_web();
// Get the Web lists.
collList = this.web.get_lists();
//Load Lists.
context.load(collList);
context.executeQueryAsync(
Function.createDelegate(this, successListHandlerCSOM),
Function.createDelegate(this, errorListHandlerCSOM)
//Success Lists
function successListHandlerCSOM() {
var listEnumerator = collList.getEnumerator();
$('#lblResultLists').html("<b>Via CSOM the lists are:</b><br/>");
while (listEnumerator.moveNext()) {
var oList = listEnumerator.get_current();
$('#lblResultLists').append(oList.get_title() + " (" + oList.get_itemCount() + ")<br/>");
//Error Lists
function errorListHandlerCSOM(data, errorCode, errorMessage) {
$('#lblResultLists').html("Could not complete CSOM Call: " + errorMessage);
Any solution is appreciated.

Hi,
To retrieve data from list in your provider-hosted app using SharePoint Client Object Model(CSOM), you can follow the links below for a quick start:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142381(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2013/02/22/building-your-first-provider-hosted-app-for-sharepoint-part-2.aspx
Best regards
Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support

SharePoint Provider Hosted App that can update existing SharePoint Task List

Note: I am unable to take advantage of the Microsoft.SharePoint library directly. Adding a reference results in a 32bit/64bit library mismatch error.
I have to find a solution that uses only the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client extension.
I am looking for example code where provider-hosted SharePoint App loads a SharePoint Task List View that allows users to interact with the tasks.
So far I have only been able to programmatically create and then load the SharePoint tasks list, create and populate a DataTable object and set the datasource of a GridView object to that DataTable.
I am unable to trigger my method linked to my checkbox within the gridview.
Ideally I would like to just customize a Task View that already has this functionality.
Here is my default.aspx.cs code-behind file:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data;
using SP = Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
namespace SPAppBasicWeb
public partial class Default : System.Web.UI.Page
protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
Uri redirectUrl;
switch (SharePointContextProvider.CheckRedirectionStatus(Context, out redirectUrl))
case RedirectionStatus.Ok:
return;
case RedirectionStatus.ShouldRedirect:
Response.Redirect(redirectUrl.AbsoluteUri, endResponse: true);
break;
case RedirectionStatus.CanNotRedirect:
Response.Write("An error occurred while processing your request.");
Response.End();
break;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
// The following code gets the client context and Title property by using TokenHelper.
// To access other properties, the app may need to request permissions on the host web.
var spContext = SharePointContextProvider.Current.GetSharePointContext(Context);
using (var clientContext = spContext.CreateUserClientContextForSPHost())
//clientContext.Load(clientContext.Web, web => web.Title);
//clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
//Response.Write(clientContext.Web.Title);
SP.ClientContext cc = new SP.ClientContext("http://server/sites/devapps");
SP.Web web = cc.Web;
SP.List list = web.Lists.GetByTitle("General Tasks");
SP.CamlQuery caml = new SP.CamlQuery();
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(caml);
cc.Load<Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.List>(list);
cc.Load<Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItemCollection>(items);
//try
//const int ColWidth = 40;
cc.ExecuteQuery();
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add("Task Name", typeof(string));
dt.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(int));
foreach (Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItem liTask in items)
DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
dr["Task Name"] = liTask["Title"];
dr["ID"] = liTask["ID"];
//dr["chkTask"] = liTask["Checkmark"];
dt.Rows.Add(dr);
GridView1.DataSource = dt;
GridView1.DataBind();
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Response.Write("checkbox event triggered");
Here is my simple default.aspx:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="SPAppBasicWeb.Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:CheckBox ID="chkTask" runat="server" OnCheckedChanged="chkTask_CheckedChanged" AutoPostBack="true" />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
http://www.net4geeks.com Who said I was a geek?

Hi,
Please try to modify your code as below:
using (var clientContext = spContext.CreateUserClientContextForSPHost())
SP.Web web = clientContext.Web;
SP.List list = web.Lists.GetByTitle("General Tasks");
SP.CamlQuery caml = new SP.CamlQuery();
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(caml);
clientContext.Load(items);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
If the code still not works, I suggest you debug the code or following the blog below to create a Provider-Hosted App for SharePoint and read list items from SharePoint list.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2013/02/22/building-your-first-provider-hosted-app-for-sharepoint-part-2.aspx
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support

Using powershell to deploy provider-hosted app and specify remote Url instead of using appinv.aspx page

Hello all,
Could you possibly help me with provider-hosted app development/deployment process.
We developed SharePoint provider-hosted app that works just fine in development environment. Now we need to automate it's installation in test environment via powershell.
In AppManifest.xml that we are deploying we have key instead of explicit URL:
<App xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/2012/app/manifest" Name="ShowAllRoomsApp" ProductID="{922a18aa-5592-b59a-4da9-4791baef02e7}" Version="1.0.0.0"
SharePointMinVersion="15.0.0.0">
<Properties>
<Title>SomeTitle</Title>
<StartPage>~remoteAppUrl/Pages/Default.aspx?{StandardTokens}</StartPage>
If we use as
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj655398.aspx recommends, we cannot specify Redirect Url as we can do this on
/_layouts/appinv.aspx
So now it seems like the only way to deploy this kind of solution is using appinv.aspx page.Or must we apply this URL in AppManifest on developing stage in Visual Studio?
What did I miss?
P. S. Even if I use /_layouts/appinv.aspx after powershell commandlets, I get error.

hi,
to deploy provider hosted app you need 2 things
1. Client ID
2. Redirect URL.
What you can do you can generate app from visual studio using clientID and URL from developer enviornment.
Now a app file is just a simple compressed zip file if you rename it as .zip and extract you will find AppManifest
inside it. So to create an app for Testing enviornment what you have to to Get the CLient ID (from AppRegNew.aspx) in testing enviornment. Unzip .App file change the AppManifest with testing client ID and URL than again zip file and rename as .app.
Now if you upload this file it will work.
To automate this scenerio i have created a simple windows Application in which i Pass the Client ID and StartURl and an App File it unzips the app file make changes to app and again zip it.
public static class AppPackageHelper
public const string StartUrlExpression = "{0}?{1}";
public const string StandardToken = "{StandardTokens}";
public static string Publish(string appPath, string ClientId,string StartUrl)
string tempDir = string.Empty;
string outPutFile = string.Empty;
try
string parentDir = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(appPath);
outPutFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(parentDir, ClientId + "-Winshuttle.app");
tempDir = System.IO.Path.Combine(parentDir, ClientId.ToString());
Directory.CreateDirectory(tempDir);
int lastInd = appPath.LastIndexOf('.');
string tempPath = string.Empty;
string targetFilePath = string.Empty;
string cabPath = System.IO.Path.Combine(tempDir, System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(appPath) + ".cab");
FileInfo fInfo = new FileInfo(appPath) { IsReadOnly = false };
File.Copy(appPath, cabPath);
XDocument doc = null;
string appManifest = string.Empty;
using (ZipArchive zipArch = ZipFile.Open(cabPath, ZipArchiveMode.Update))
appManifest = string.Format(@"{0}\AppManifest.xml", Directory.GetParent(cabPath).FullName);
ZipArchiveEntry manifestEntry = zipArch.Entries.LastOrDefault(e => e.Name.ToLower() == "appmanifest.xml");
manifestEntry.ExtractToFile(appManifest);
doc = XDocument.Load(appManifest);
XNamespace ns = doc.Root.GetDefaultNamespace();
string defaultUrl = string.Format(StartUrlExpression, StartUrl.TrimEnd('/'), StandardToken);
doc.Descendants(XName.Get("StartPage", ns.NamespaceName)).First().Value = defaultUrl;
doc.Descendants(XName.Get("RemoteWebApplication", ns.NamespaceName)).First().Attribute(XName.Get("ClientId")).Value = setupInfo.ClientId.ToString();
doc.Save(appManifest);
if (manifestEntry != null)
manifestEntry.Delete();
zipArch.CreateEntryFromFile(appManifest, "AppManifest.xml");
int totEnt = zipArch.Entries.Count;
for (int e = 0; e < totEnt; e++)
if (zipArch.Entries[e].Open().Length == 0)
//if (zipArch.Entries.Count > totEnt && e >= totEnt) break;
//zipArch.CreateEntry(zipArch.Entries[e].FullName);
File.Delete(appManifest);
if (File.Exists(outPutFile))
File.Delete(outPutFile);
File.Move(cabPath, outPutFile);
return outPutFile;
catch
throw;
finally
if (System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempDir))
System.IO.Directory.Delete(tempDir, true);
return outPutFile;
using System.IO.Compression.FileSystem.dll.
Also if you want to do it using powershell You need to do the same thing unzip-> changes values-> zip
So basic thing is You need to ahve only valid AppManifest file which contains 2 valid values Client Id and StartUrl
if you changes it inside appmanifest manuall than it will also work. Using above code you can create a console Application to do it. You can use powershell it just that i dont know how to zip unzip in powershell but i am pretty sure you can easily find it
on searching.
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Provider-hosted Apps debug error: The remote server returned an error: (401) unauthorised

Hi,
Any help appreciated!!
I'm getting this error: "The remote server returned an error: (401) unauthorised when I debug a provider-hosted app. I get the error on this line:
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
See code below
I created a high trust development environment following the instructions provided here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp179901(v=office.15).aspx and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/office/fp179923
I created a provider-hosted app with the intent to:
create a SharePoint list in the appweb
Use self-signed certificate, tokenhepler.cs and sharepointcontext.cs to retrieve current user context and access on SharePoint. (No changes were made to tokenhelper.cs and sharepointcontext.cs)
retrieve list items from the SharePoint list in a button click event handler on a default.aspx of the remote web
What happens:
The app is deployed successfully to the Dev site
The SharePoint feature is deployed and activated
The default.aspx page of the remote web loads
The error (see image) is returned on clicking of the button
My environment is an on-premise SharePoint 2013 with AD and my dev box is standalone windows 8.1 running Visual Studio Professional 2013 Update 3.
The code block below is a copy of the default.aspx code-behind
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.S2S.Tokens;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Data;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.XPath;
namespace Idea.GeneratorWeb
public partial class Default : System.Web.UI.Page
SharePointContextToken contextToken;
string accessToken;
Uri sharepointUrl;
protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
Uri redirectUrl;
switch (SharePointContextProvider.CheckRedirectionStatus(Context, out redirectUrl))
case RedirectionStatus.Ok:
return;
case RedirectionStatus.ShouldRedirect:
Response.Redirect(redirectUrl.AbsoluteUri, endResponse: true);
break;
case RedirectionStatus.CanNotRedirect:
Response.Write("An error occurred while processing your request.");
Response.End();
break;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
//// The following code gets the client context and Title property by using TokenHelper.
//// To access other properties, the app may need to request permissions on the host web.
var spContext = SharePointContextProvider.Current.GetSharePointContext(Context);
//var spContext = new ClientContext("MySPDevInstance");
//spContext.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
//using (var clientContext = spContext.CreateUserClientContextForSPHost())
// clientContext.Load(clientContext.Web, web => web.Title);
// clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
// Response.Write(clientContext.Web.Title);
string contextTokenString = TokenHelper.GetContextTokenFromRequest(Request);
if (contextTokenString != null)
// Get context token
contextToken = TokenHelper.ReadAndValidateContextToken(contextTokenString, Request.Url.Authority);
// Get access token
sharepointUrl = new Uri(Request.QueryString["SPAppWebUrl"]);
accessToken = TokenHelper.GetAccessToken(contextToken, sharepointUrl.Authority).AccessToken;
// Pass the access token to the button event handler.
Button1.CommandArgument = accessToken;
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
// Retrieve the access token that the Page_Load method stored
// in the button's command argument.
string accessToken = ((Button)sender).CommandArgument;
if (IsPostBack)
sharepointUrl = new Uri(Request.QueryString["SPAppWebUrl"]);
// REST/OData URL section
string oDataUrl = "/_api/Web/lists/getbytitle('Diagrams In Idea Generator')/items?$select=Title,Diagram,SharingStatus";
// HTTP Request and Response construction section
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(sharepointUrl.ToString() + oDataUrl);
request.Method = "GET";
request.Accept = "application/atom+xml";
request.ContentType = "application/atom+xml;type=entry";
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
// Response markup parsing section
XDocument oDataXML = XDocument.Load(response.GetResponseStream(), LoadOptions.None);
XNamespace atom = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
XNamespace d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
XNamespace m = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata";
List<XElement> entries = oDataXML.Descendants(atom + "entry")
.Elements(atom + "content")
.Elements(m + "properties")
.ToList();
var entryFieldValues = from entry in entries
select new
Character = entry.Element(d + "Title").Value,
Actor = entry.Element(d + "Diagram").Value,
CastingStatus = entry.Element(d + "SharingStatus").Value
GridView1.DataSource = entryFieldValues;
GridView1.DataBind();
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong

Hi ,
Use the below code
Public string GetAccessToken(){
string sharePointSiteUrlHost = Page.Request["SPHostUrl"].Tostring();
string AccessToken = tokenHelper.GetS2SAccessTokenWithWindowsIdentity(sharePointSiteUrlHost, Request.LogonUserIdentity);
return accessToken;
Than initialize the ClientCOntext with the below Method
private static ClientContext GetClientContextWithAccessTokenString(string targetUrl, object accessToken)
ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(targetUrl);
clientContext.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.Anonymous;
clientContext.FormDigestHandlingEnabled = false;
clientContext.ExecutingWebRequest +=
delegate(object oSender, WebRequestEventArgs webRequestEventArgs)
webRequestEventArgs.WebRequestExecutor.WebRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)";
webRequestEventArgs.WebRequestExecutor.RequestHeaders["Authorization"] =
"Bearer " + accessToken;
return clientContext;
use this clientCOntext and it will work.
Do not use
SharePointContextProvider
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Error with Provider Hosted App on Edit Form of a list item

We have an error on the Edit Form of one of our pages.
We have developed a SharePoint Online Provider Hosted app which replaces the standard edit form of a list item and has some further events behind the save button. Since this is rather new territory for us, we're using a roundabout way of achieving this by
using a script editor web part to display an iFrame of our app. That way we can pass the Url through to our app and retrieve query strings from them.
Our issue comes quite intermittently in that we sometimes get a "web page cannot be found" error or sometimes a "resource cannot be found" error, however, when we load another app on the site (from the same app project, but using an app
part), then go back to the Edit Form, the information in the iFrame suddenly renders.
Any ideas on what might be causing this issue at all? Ideally, we should be rendering the app to the Edit Form is the proper manner, rather than scripting an iFrame that points to out app in Azure. Would this be the cause of the problem?
Thanks
Tom

Hi thumper, if you have access to InfoPath, you can add the form to a page using the InfoPath web part. Otherwise, use SP Designer with instructions below:
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/70287/display-new-form-of-a-list-in-a-web-part-page
cameron rautmann

Redirection error An error occurred while processing your request in provider-hosted app which is hosted in Windows Azure

Hello,
I developed one simple provider hosted app and I published it in my Azure website. I also published the SharePoint App of this solution in O365 site. I'm using Visual Studio 2013 Premium edition. I've followed all the steps to do this work e.g.
generate the client ID and client secret through my O365 site and updated the AppManifest.xml as well as web.config etc. In my AppWeb project, I've TokenHelper.cs and SharePoint.cs classes.
When I'm clicking the app from my O365 site, I get the following error "An error occurred while processing your request" which is due to the following code:
protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
            Uri redirectUrl;
            switch (SharePointContextProvider.CheckRedirectionStatus(Context, out redirectUrl))
                case RedirectionStatus.Ok:
                    return;
                case RedirectionStatus.ShouldRedirect:
                    Response.Redirect(redirectUrl.AbsoluteUri, endResponse: true);
                    break;
                case RedirectionStatus.CanNotRedirect:
                    Response.Write("An error occurred while processing your request.");
                    Response.End();
                    break;
It's always executing the case RedirectionStatus.CanNotRedirect. Why?
I've checked the method "CheckRedirectionStatus" of SharePointContext.cs class completely and I am not understanding why am I getting this error.
When I browse my Azure website http://sitename.azurewebsites.net, even there I'm getting this error. I believe that error is because there is no query string parameter there e.g. SPHostURL etc.
Please let me know why I'm having this redirection error.
Thanks,
Ashish

Hi,
For a better troubleshooting,
I suggest you do as the following:
Debug the code step by step to find the reason of the issue.
For the remote debug your app from Windows Azure, you need to download Azure SDK:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
After installing the SDK, it will have “Attach Debugger” for Azure web site, you
also need to set "Attach Debugger" to on in the Windows Azure Management Portal
More detailed information about how to debug provider-hosted app:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/11/25/debugging-sharepoint-apps-that-are-hosted-in-windows-azure-web-sites.aspx
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Report Viewer control in sharepoint 2013 provider hosted app

sharepointSite/_vti_bin/ReportServer
We are migrating sp 2010 site to SP 2013 provider hosted app. we are using Report viewer control (version 10.0.0) in .net application app server, And the reporting service is configured in sharepoint site and report is uploaded in the document
library. We are using claims based authentication
ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl =
newUri("sharepointSite/_vti_bin/ReportServer");
ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ReportPath = @"sharepointSite/_vti_bin/ReportServer?sharepointSite/Reports/Report1.rdl";
and am getting an error
ReportServerException: For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors]
[ReportServerException: The user does not exist or is not unique.]
[ReportServerException: Report Server has encountered a SharePoint error. (rsSharePointError)]
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   Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.ProxyMethodInvocation.Execute(RSExecutionConnection connection, ProxyMethod`1 initialMethod,
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System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean
includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +3804
Can you please help me to solve this issue

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you had issues about the provider hosted app.
Per the error, the issue may be related to the permission issue.
For a better troubleshooting, we can check with the following steps.
To norrow down the issue, please create a new and clean app to test whether it has the same issue.
You can check the ULS log to see if anything unexpected occurred when you deploy the app and open the site page.
For SharePoint 2013, by default, ULS log is at
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS
You can check the ULS log by the methods here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2009/12/22/uls-viewer-for-sharepoint-2010-troubleshooting.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg193966(v=office.14).aspx
Thanks,
Jason
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How to Use Office 365 api in Provider Hosted App

Hi,
I want to use outlook api in SharePoint Provider Hosted App.
when I use :-
$.ajax({
url: 'https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/me/contacts',
type: 'GET',
beforeSend: function (xhr) {
xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Bearer');
Accept: "application/json",
"client-request-id": "9de3d763-a8d9-4433-92f3-096d6be36d86",
success: function () {
alert("Welcome to Outlook ")},
error: function (e) {
alert(' Error121212 :' +e);
Error:-
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/me/contacts. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://localhost:44309' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code
401.
Please Provide me a good example.
Thanks in Advance

Hi SharePlus,
You probably want to use the Office 365 API's to authenticate and communicate with the API's.
There's several resources available for this:
Ultimate LinkRoll for Getting Started with the Office 365 API's
Download Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio 2013
Getting Started with O365 Dev - Communicate with Exchange
If you don't want to use the pre-compiled typed objects in the Office 365 API's for communicating with the Mail service (Exchange), you can always just make sure to handle the authentication properly and then construct your queries as raw queries, like Chaks
describes here: http://chakkaradeep.com/index.php/working-with-office365apis-the-raw-version/
Also, as a general rule; When working with anything Office 365, you should always keep an eye out for the example code, articles and news published from the Office 365 Patterns & Practices team here: https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP
I hope this will guide you in the right direction :-)
Tobias Zimmergren
Microsoft MCP, MCTS, MCT, MVP (SharePoint)
Blog: www.zimmergren.net
Twitter: twitter.com/zimmergren
Corporate site: www.tozit.com

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Hi,
I am creating provider hosted app in visual studio 2012 using app scoped external content type having OData with Northwind url
App manifest start page url :
ODataNewAppWeb/Pages/Default.aspx
In XML it is:
<StartPage>~remoteAppUrl/Pages/Default.aspx</StartPage>
When i am deploying app pressing F5 the app gets deployed successfully....
Now i am changing my start page url in Appmanifest like this:
ODataNewApp/Lists/Employees
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StartPage>~appWebUrl/Lists/Employees</StartPage>
When i am deploying app pressing F5 the app..
Getting register SOD error.....
I have followed all the steps like:
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The remote server returned an error :(401) unauthorized in Provider hosted app deployment

Hi,
We are trying to deploy the provider hosted app in server environment . we are getting the "The remote server returned an error :(401) unauthorized" error after deploy the app in server.
stack Trace:
[webException:Te remote server returned an error:(401) UnAuthorized.]
System.Net.HeepWebRequest.GetResponse().
Followed the same MSDN steps , but sill same error. We have attached the certificate and using the same issuer ID in the app web.config.
Verified the IIS setting and still getting the same error when we call the "Clientcontext.ExecuteQuery()" method.
Same code is working fine in my Local dev environment.
If anyone have idea about this issue, please let me know.
Thank you,
Mylsamy

Hi ,Thank you for your response. We have tried all the options and everything is same (Client ID,Issuer ID...etc) and finally figured out the issue.The below link saved my day.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn762439(v=office.15).aspxIn "TokenHelper.cs" GetRealmFromTargetUrl method always return null andWhen we analyze the issue we found some variable name assigned for "Realm" Instead of GUID in SP server.Power shell command to get the Realm in SP server: Get-SPAuthenticationRealmWe have followed below article to generate the new GUID for realm.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219756(v=office.15).aspx$c =Get-SPServiceContext -Site "http://<websiteurl>"Set-SPAuthenticationRealm -ServiceContext $c -Realm "a686d436-9f16-42db-09b7-cb578e110ccd".
Thankyou,Mylsamy

Creating High trust provider hosted app in SharePoint online

Hi,
I need to create high trust provider hosted app for SharePoint Online. provider hosted would be not going to host in Azure but it will be some where else.
some kindly provide step by step that how to create High trust app for SharePoint online but not for SharePoint 2013.
Kaps

check this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp179901(v=office.15).aspx#Intro
A high-trust app for SharePoint is is primarily intended for use in an on-premises environment. The high-trust
app cannot be installed to Microsoft SharePoint Online, and the remote components are typically installed on premises, too, within the corporate firewall. Thus, the instances of the app for SharePoint are specific to each individual company.
Kind Regards, John Naguib Technical Consultant/Architect MCITP, MCPD, MCTS, MCT, TOGAF 9 Foundation

Unable to deploy the provider hosted app on sharepoint server !!!

Hello,
I have simply created the provider hosted app by assigning the issuer ID !
Now, the SharePoint version of the app project is set as SharePoint Online.
However, when I deploy this project to SharePoint site, it shows following error :
Unknown SharePoint version: 16.0
In order to resolve this I changed the SharePoint version as SharePoint 2013
of the app project.
Though , I am getting following error on deployment:
The target version of the SharePoint site is 15.0.4569.1000, which is lower than the minimum supported SharePoint version of the app. To fix this, go to the SharePoint tab on the app for SharePoint project’s properties page, and change the Target
SharePoint Version property to the version of the SharePoint site or lower.
Would you please let me know how can I resolve this deployment error ?
Note : I am using MVC web Application template for web project
Thank you in advance.
Kind Regards,
Dipti Chhatrapati

Not sure, but this is straight.
Project type - apps for sharepoint --> Enter URL --> select type as provider hosted app --> MVC --> Authentication Option.
Now when publishing the project - SP App to SharePoint/Office Store and web portion to any web server ( i generally do it in Azure).
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Provider-hosted app deployment error

Hi,
I am developing a provider-hosted app which programmatically adds the app part on Home page of the site. I wrote the code for adding the app part in App Installed event. It works fine when i debug it on my development site. Then i made a catalog site and
deployed it there following the instructions in this blog.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2014/06/26/part-2-intro-to-provider-hosted-apps-develop-package-and-deploy.aspx
After deploying the app on app catalog, when i try to add the app, i get the following error.
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation
Date: 3/18/2015 5:44:17 PM
Event ID: 8311
Task Category: Topology
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SP\Administrator
Computer: SP2013.SP2013.LOCAL
Description:
An operation failed because the following certificate has validation errors:
Subject Name: CN=SP2013.SP2013.LOCAL
Issuer Name: CN=SP2013.SP2013.LOCAL
Thumbprint: 9D3D48F8D7ED5AE4CB187BEB3319C3E65A36340C
Errors:
SSL policy errors have been encountered. Error code '0x2'..
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation" Guid="{6FB7E0CD-52E7-47DD-997A-241563931FC2}" />
<EventID>8311</EventID>
<Version>15</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>13</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-18T12:44:17.912561500Z" />
<EventRecordID>24215803</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{3A58A90C-2A9C-4128-A4CF-D07A9FEB48E8}" />
<Execution ProcessID="980" ThreadID="688" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>SP2013.SP2013.LOCAL</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-2707663415-3900761612-1761970234-500" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="string0">CN=SP2013.SP2013.LOCAL</Data>
<Data Name="string1">CN=SP2013.SP2013.LOCAL</Data>
<Data Name="string2">9D3D48F8D7ED5AE4CB187BEB3319C3E65A36340C</Data>
<Data Name="string3">SSL policy errors have been encountered. Error code '0x2'.</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
I am deploying the app with non-system user. Is there any any limitation of using app installed event in
app catalog or am i doing something wrong?

Hi,
The following blog for you to check:
SharePoint 2013 Domain Certificate for Provider-Host App Development Environment
http://rwcchen.blogspot.com/2013/12/sharepoint-2013-domain-certificate-for.html
Or try to add the following line within <system.net> tag
in your SharePoint site web.config:
<settings>
<servicePointManager
checkCertificateName="false"
checkCertificateRevocationList="false"/>
</settings>
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Thanks for the reply but I already tried the solution. My app works fine when i deploy it without app install event receiver but when i add the event receiver i face the error. Is there any limitation of using app install event receivers?

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