I need an assistance in designing a solution for a client which has following requirements. (Solution Architecture)
I have a requirement for a new portal as follows.
External (non-AD) users around 2000 and AD users approx 50
File uploads/downloads, custom forms and 3-4 level of approvals
Graphical and tabular reports for data (50 count)
Both type of uses (external/Internal) can submit a form for approvals
SQL database vs O365 list vs SharePoint 2019 lists (on-Premise)
Integration with external entities(departments) via web services
Payment integration
All content is secured via a user management module (creation, enable/disable, password resetting, etc) except few anonymous pages
All pages should be customizable
Questions:
We have SharePoint 2019 enterprise license with SQL. O365 tenant as well.
Which model would be better suited or cost effective. Creating a gateway and hosting apps within On-premise is cost effective but might face challenges too.
What would be the cost of extending the O365 tenant to create 2000 users (FBA sort of) and with 50 AD users in complete online model?
Do you find any grey area which cannot be met in SharePoint 2019 on-premise model?
Which database store would be more suitable (SQL, MS Dataverse, SharePoint Lists)
How could I verify If O365 tenant is usable in this scenario.
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I am working on a migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online. Where inside the on-premises the customer has a configurable Web Part (Server-side of course), which allow users to do the following:-
Specify a connection string to connect to on-premises SQL server
Specify the Table or Stored Procedure or View to connect with.
optionally to pass a Parameter to the Database.
After that the web part will show the results from the database and allow the users to filter the data which will be shown in a tabular format.
Here is a screenshot of the web part setting:-
Here is a screenshot of a result from one web part instance:-
So can we build similar web part using SPFx? If the answer is Yes, then is there an available 3rd party web part we can benefit from? Finally , i am also open to other approaches to achieve our work other than build/using SPFx web part.
Please note that I am already aware that i can create API for the DB and connect SharePoint Online to On-prem DB using gateways.. but my main question is; how we can develop a dynamic web part (similar to the current on-prem web part), which allow us to show & filter data from on-prem database's Tables,Views & Stored procedure, by just specifying which components (table,view or Stored Procedure) we want to show the data from .. Is there a documentation to create such SPFx web part? or if there are 3rd part SPFx web part that we can benefit from?
You have two possibilities to solve this challenge:
If you only have the possibility to refactor this Farm Solutions
Web Part to SPFx, consider using a local data gateway to
help as an artifact to generate the connections from the local
environment to the cloud, and suddenly, you can persist these
registered connections into a restricted access SharePoint List (for example) and consume with a combo box. But if you
can't make progress with this approach, you'll need to consider the
2nd possibility (this one is more difficult);
Develop a Provider-Hosted SharePoint Add-In, which can be hosted on on-premises IIS and can connect to your various on-premises databases as a shared connection string in your example image above.
I've using Microsoft Graph Connector to pull On-prem SQL data into Microsoft Search (via Microsoft API), and then combine that with PnP Modern Search for query/filter results by selecting Graph as data source.
This feature is listed under MS Search & Intelligence. You can
Specify a connection string to connect to on-premises SQL server
Specify the Table or Stored Procedure or View to connect with
-- You define it in the PnP <Modern Search web part. Note that you can only filter/query/refinable if you've defined it in step 1 or 2 above.
My Requirement is
Capture the user information e.g. name, id, email id, etc. which currently Im capturing through the excel sheet by sending the sheet to everyone. I want to automate this in Azure by creating a simple web application.
Store the information in a DB or storage.
Create Graphs and dashboards. Update the dashboards automatically as and when the informrtaion gets added/updated.
Provide users access to the Web application(Front-end) forms only.
Allow users to update the information they provided as and when needed.
Allow application access using Azure AD
What are the possible simple solutions available in Azure with minimal cost.
Thanks,
Yogesh
Have a look at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/tutorial-dotnetcore-sqldb-app?pivots=platform-windows which is a quick start tutorial that uses https://github.com/azure-samples/dotnetcore-sqldb-tutorial. It outlines creating an application and storing in an Azure SQL DB. By using .NET Core, you can leverage either Windows or Linux app service plan which opens your options as far as pricing goes. In the repo, you can modify Todo.cs to match your user information requirements.
For allowing application access using Azure AD, have a look at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/tutorial-auth-aad?pivots=platform-windows.
You can get started easily by using a Free tier app service plan and either basic or general DTU or v-Core Azure SQL Database pricing.
I am working on a task where I need to run SSRS and SharePoint on different servers, but right now, SSRS is working in integrated mode. Is it possible to configure a remote SSRS instance in integrated mode with a sharepoint instance ?
I stand under correction, however, I believe you could use the SharePoint SSRS web-part component and as long as the user executing the request (Your service account on SharePoint) has access to the database it should work.
Ensure that the AD user that is running the SharePoint front-end has access to the database (read / execute) - can be added to a group that has access to the database, or
give the user exclusive access to the database <- not the recommended solution
Is it possible to create SharePoint web hooks without Azure?
I have a requirement where I need push notifications from a SharePoint list, I read that SharePoint web hooks can be used to achieve it, but customer doesn't have an Azure account and looking into possibilities where it can be achieved without using Azure.
It is absolutely possible. The premise of WebHooks is that SharePoint Online will HTTP POST to a URL you define when the event happens. The only thing that is important is that the WebHook service you create and register with SharePoint Online has to be accessible to the SharePoint Online service. Without getting into specialized networking arrangements with Microsoft this means your service has to be publicly addressable. Azure is used as a common example because it is publicly addressable, it is a Microsoft product and lots of SharePoint Online customers are also Azure customers. There is however nothing that would stop you from using your own hosting solution.
Here is a presentation on WebHooks: https://docs.com/OfficeDevPnP/1223/pnp-web-cast-sharepoint-webhooks
Attempting to do the https://github.com/PowerBI/getting-started-for-dotnet tutoriel, i am being blocked when we have to give permissions to other applications to an Client App : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn877542.aspx
I can't add PowerBI app on Azure :-(
The PowerBI name in the list of permissions to other applications can't be selected
Do you know why ?
Thanks
Usually the issue is that you do not have a registered power bi user in your tenant. You can create a user and sign them up at www.powerbi.com. Once completed registering the user, you should be able to enable the application with power bi permissions.
Detailed instructions are here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn877542.aspx
Appreciate your using Power BI.
Lukasz P.
Power BI Team, Microsoft
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I just ran into the same problem and my analysis says, you are using your work mail id when are you registering for Power BI (and work directory) and when you log into your Azure portal you are using your work mail id but you are on the microsoft directory rather then your work place directory hence you wont be able to see Power BI application listed in the options. One option is to migrate your Azure account to work directory.
HTH