How to configure the environment to develop SharePoint 2013 APPS on Premise

Hello everybody,

Today I very happy to post this article. I think it is very useful for all of you who want to research in SharePoint 2013 APPS. Step by step to Setup SharePoint Server 2013 and Configure APPS.

Requirement:

Win server 2012; Active Directory; SQL Server 2012; SharePoint Server 2013; Visual studio 2013.

Steps to do

We have 4 parts:

Create 2 account spfarmadmin and spinstaller and add them to Administrator group and local group and create domain in DNS

Setup SharePoint 2013

Create services application and configure APPS

Adding Apps from SharePoint Store

Adding Apps from Visual studio

Create 2 account spfarmadmin and spinstaller and add them to Administrator group and local group and create domain in DNS

The most important isn’t use Administrator to setup or configure anything on server. So I create new user is spfarmadmin and spinstaller then add it to Administrator group.

Configuring DNS: Find DNS and open it

Expand DNS > DELL6530 > Right click to Forward Lookup … >> New Zone

Keep default and click next

Input Zone name: dellApps.com (my domain: dell.com) then click next

Keep default or choose “Do not allow …” then click next

Click on Finish

Right click dellApps.com > New Alias (CNAME)

Alias name: *

Fully qualified domain name (FQDN): keep default

Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for target host: click to Browse >> double click to Dell6530

Double click to Forward Lookup Zone

Double click to dell.com

Choose dell6530.com > OK

Click OK

Try to ping new domain >> ping hung.dellapps.com (you can change hung to your name yourname.dellapps.com). If you get result as follows you get success

Setup SharePoint 2013

Refer this article (http://www.microsofttechnology.net/2014/09/installing-sharepoint-server-2013.html).
Login to computer by spfarmadmin

Preparing setup SharePoint: Configure Application Server and Web IIS

Setup Preparation

Setup SharePoint

Continue

Install now

Waiting

Run configuration

Yes

Choose Create a new server farm

Server name: dell6530

Database Name: any name

User Name: using spfarmadmin

Password:: XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Passphrase: same your password

Specify port number: 9999 > Next

Waiting

Finish

Choose “Yes, I am …” > OK

Click cancel

On home page, click on Application Management > Manage web applications

Keep default then click ok

Click “Create Site Collection”

Username : spfarmadmin

Click OK

Open site collection

Create services application and configure APPS

Creating 2 services application: is Subscription Settings Service Application and App Management Service Application

Creating Subscription Settings Service Application

Open SharePoint Management Shell

Input $account = Get-SPManagedAccount dell\spfarmadmin then enter

$appPoolSubSvc = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name SettingsServiceAppPool -Account $account

$appSubSvc = New-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplication -ApplicationPool $appPoolSubSvc -Name SettingsServiceApp -DatabaseName SettingsServiceDell6530DB

$proxySubSvc = New-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplicationProxy -ServiceApplication $appSubSvc

Go to Application Management >> Manage services applications

And see service is created successful

And database also

Creating App Management Service Application

$account = Get-SPManagedAccount dell\spfarmadmin

$appPoolAppSvc = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name AppServiceAppPool -Account $account

$appAppSvc = New-SPAppManagementServiceApplication -ApplicationPool $appPoolAppSvc -Name AppServiceApp -DatabaseName Dell6530AppService

$proxyAppSvc = New-SPAppManagementServiceApplicationProxy -ServiceApplication $appAppSvc

Go to Application Management >> Manage services applications and see App Services is created

Database also

Make sure 2 services which is started: Go to Application Management > Manage services on server

We see it is stopped

Start it

Configure Apps URL and App Catalog

On Home page >> click Apps >> click Configure app URLs

Input App domain: dellApps.com (create before in DNS)

App prefix: SharePointApps

Click to Manage App Catalog

Choose Create a new app catalog site > OK

Input your information

App catalog site look like this

Adding Apps from SharePoint Store

Choose SharePoint Store

Choose News Ticker

Add it

Continue

But you get Issue

You got error because you login by Administrator local or Admin farm (spfarmadmin).

Solution:

Adding spinstaller to Manage the farm administrators group in central admin (Go to central admin >> Security >> Manage the farm administrators group then add user to there)

Result: Add App again then you got >> click return to site