Setting up SharePoint 2013 Apps in a load balanced environment

All,
Looking for some articles on how to configure SharePoint 2013 Apps in a load balanced farm (2 WFEs, 2 APP servers, 2 SQL DBs).
Thank you!

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Network Load Balancing between SharePoint 2013 App server and WFE

Hi,
Can we do NLB between SharePoint 2013 App server and WFE Server ?
Below is our Architecture,
1. WFE Server (1)
2. APP Server (1)
3. Database Server
4. Domain Controller
We have configured NLB but, when we stop IIS on APP server, SharePoint 2013 web app link is not working.
is it possible ?
Please help us

You can do NLB between WFE and APP server however make sure that web application service is started from central admin which host sharepoint sites.
Why do you stop IIS on APP server, definitely it will not be able to host web app sites. rather you can just disable APP node on NLB to test it.

How to create a Document Set in SharePoint 2013 using JavaScript Client Side Object Model (JSOM)?

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The requirement is to create ""Document Sets in Bulk" using JSOM. I am using the following posts:-
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mittals/archive/2013/04/03/how-to-create-a-document-set-in-sharepoint-2013-using-javascript-client-side-object-model-jsom.aspx
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/1904cddb-850c-4425-8205-998bfaad07d7/create-document-set-using-ecma-script
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Hello,
I have already tried your solution, however in that case I get the error - "UncaughtSys.ArgumentNullException: Sys.ArgumentNullException:
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Unable to open any Sharepoint 2013 Apps

Hi all,
I am having an issue whenever I try and open third-party SharePoint 2013 Apps on our on-premises server. I have configured the app domain as per
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236(v=office.15).aspx and installed some random third-party apps (eg. "Yammer App for SharePoint", "Corporate News App").
I can go to the Microsoft Store and purchase apps and make them available to sites, however whenever I go to any of these sites "Site Contents" page and click to open any of the Apps it ends up redirecting the user back to the top-level sites homepage.
Initially it was freezing on a blank page, but looking through the logs on the server there was an authentication error with a service account password. Having resolved that issue it now just returns to the homepage of the top-level site.
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with "Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation" and go back to the top-level site.
A copy of the log file can be found at:
http://insertdisk.com/log.txt
The main sites web application is configured to use claims-based authentication via ADFS, anybody have any ideas?

Hi ,
According to your description, my understanding is that you encountered an authentication error
when you try to open third-part SharePoint 2013 Apps on your on-premises server with ADFS authentication.
Configuring the app domain is
necessary for setting up SharePoint Apps Development environment. If you just install and open third-part SharePoint 2013 Apps, it is not necessary.
Also for your issue, you can have a look
to the blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spses/archive/2014/01/17/how-to-use-adfs-with-sharepoint-hosted-apps-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
http://www.wictorwilen.se/sharepoint-2013-with-saml-claims-and-sharepoint-hosted-apps
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SharePoint 2013 App Custom Action in Wiki Page

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Sequence="15"
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How to create Ticket Booking Functionality in SharePoint 2013 App?

We have created a Ticket Booking site in Asp.Net.
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I don't know how to start
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Can i use Report viewer web part in SharePoint 2013 app to show SSRS reports?

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Server Error: Unexpected Error when running Napa SharePoint 2013 App

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I may have screwed up the appropriate permissions for the service accounts/application pools necessary to get store apps to work. At this point I think I need to start over, but the rest of our Sharepoint install is working. Can I safely remove the App Management
Service Application and Proxy plus the Subscription Settings Service Application and Proxy?
Our Sharepoint 2013 installation is pretty basic - just the Sharepoint application server and a 2012 database server.

Hi,
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SharePoint 2013 Apps shows 404 page not found on web front end servers.

Hi All,
We are implementing SharePoint Apps for our UAT environment with 1 application server and 2 WFEs. In our development server which is single server worked for implementing SharePoint Apps.
All our web applications WFEs are hosted UAT environment and SharePoint Server 2013 is enterprise with this build number 15.0.4420.1017 (RTM). In the Application Server we enabled App management service and Subscription management through
PowerShell.
This DNS configuration is as follows:
contoso.com with IP address for Application server (192.168.10.12) 2 different IP address for WFEs
192.168.10.14/15).
contoso-apps.com for wild card DNS required by SharePoint Apps and pointed to
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without host header and bind the self – sign certificate to the SharePoint Apps web application. DNS is correctly configured on the WFE and we are able to
ping abc.contoso-apps.com.
The App Catalog site is working and we are able to download SharePoint apps. But for the WFEs, when go to SharePoint store
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We referred the following sites that relate this 404 error:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepoint_-_inside_the_lines/archive/2013/06/23/404-amp-401-errors-with-the-app-management-service.aspx
http://sharepointchick.com/archive/0001/01/01/setting-up-your-app-domain-for-sharepoint-2013.aspx
http://absolute-sharepoint.com/2013/02/troubleshooting-setting-up-an-environment-for-apps-for-sharepoint-2013.html
http://www.jeremythake.com/2013/12/troubleshooting-sharepoint-2013-hosted-apps-on-premises-404-not-found-error/
https://samlman.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/planning-the-infrastructure-required-for-the-new-app-model-in-sharepoint-2013/
But in my case we have already defined a blank host header for SharePoint Apps that we create previously.
Is it because we not using latest patch as Steve Peschka that March PU fixed this issue?
Any other solution we should look to fix this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sandy

Your contoso-apps.com
wildcard address should point to one of the WFE servers, not the Application server. (Actually it should point to the load balancer for the WFEs, but you don't mention a load balancer.) Apps generate a dynamic HTML web site on the WFE server. If
you point to the application server it may not be able to deliver that content if the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Service isn't turned on. (That's what makes a server a WFE)
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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
Thanks in advance...

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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.
Talking about technical aspect, On-Premise solution is popular choice for organizations who have SharePoint hosted on premise (not SharePoint Online). However, if you are using SharePoint Online, there's no choice except Apps (and possibly sandbox but deprecated).
So for SharePoint Online only viable solution is developing apps. However for on-premise you can develop full trust or apps. However since apps requires a bit more configuration and not yet full feature set as you can do with full trust, most people are still
developing full trust solution on premise.
Talking about business requirement at hand, you can develop apps (even in on-premise), if your requirement is really looks like an app. For example, you would like to develop a SharePoint solution, that will show data from SAP inside SharePoint. The solution
mostly nothing to do with SharePoint but calling SAP services to perform stuffs. So you can develop an apps and deploy inside SharePoint. Another example is import CSV files in SharePoint list, you can write an apps. But mostly I think you need to decide whether
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,
you can't use C# rather you just have javascript to develop the apps. There's rumours that auto hosted apps will be deprecated not sure but there's not more conceptual difference apart from where the apps is hosted (both hosted outside SharePoint). Provider/auto-hosted
apps will be running outside SharePoint (i.e., in IIS web site), and communicate to SharePoint through REST or client object model. One provider hosted apps in the office app market is adlib pdf conversion. The apps allows you to select multiple files and
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,
Sohel Rana
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?

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