Could someone tell me what should be used (kind of software or some application in excel like powerview) that dashboard or decision tool created in excel can be connected via internet to something that can be seen on iPad and this something is updated in accordance with any changes in original excel file?
You can download the Excel app in the App Store and sign in with your Microsoft ID, you must have a subscription to Office 365 inorder to download it onto other device. You'd also be able to connect via OneDrive by downloading that app and having the xls file on there and you'd be able to retrieve changes anywhere you are connected to the Internet. You also have access to the free web app that can be used in a web browser, but that won't work on the iPad, usually need to download the Excel App.
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I have created an office add-in within visual studio code, I have published it on my Azure Storage Account, and via Centralyzed Deployment I've managed to install it for some users. The problem is that this add-in must be used by some clients, and there is no possibility that they'll use the addin stored in my azure account, and there is no possibility that they will create an account for me on their organization, in order for me to push data directly on their organization's azure account.
So what are the options? I need a solution where i send the office add-in as a zip or something like that, and the company's admin can easily upload that to its Azure account, and the manifest will point to their location. I've seen the possibility of downloading the addin from azure via ftp (without success yet), I imagine if i download that, there might be an option to upload for the client's company admin. Or am I on a wrong track?
many thanks!
I need to update data in a sharepoint list remotely via a script that runs on a schedule. We currently are using sharepoint 2013 foundation but will be moving to sharepoint online in 6 months or so. I would like to know how to do this via the REST api for both 2013 on prem and online versions. Im having a hard time wrapping my head around all the different auth models, sharepoint products, available apis, frameworks etc and when reading the documentation on MSDN I cant be sure which is relevant to what version of sharepoint etc.. Anyway, so far im thinking or the 2013 on prem sharepoint I should use the High-trust certificate auth option so my script is authenticated via a certificate. Do I need to create an add-in for script to register it as an app that will talk to the rest api? The reason Im not sure is sharepoint itself never really has to call on my script and its not a webpart or page or antyhing that gets displayed on sharepoint so im a bit lost.
As for how to push data into sharepoint online lists, im assuming I would then have to register the script as a providor hosted Add-in and authenticate using OAuth2 via Azure ACS server.
Does this sound like the best way to acheive my goal? Am I on the right track or is their an eaiser option? Is there anyway I can just use a Active Directory user account in the script to make authenticated requests instead of having to create certificates trusts and create addins etc?
Update:
Heres some more info on what I'm trying to do...
The project Id like to start will be a Node or PHP script that runs on a seperate server and pulls data from a third party source, making calculations on it and then pushes the results into some Sharepoint lists. Then running this on a schedule every night to keep the Sharepoint lists up to date. I know how to do everything except getting started with Sharepoint; how to establish the connection and authentication basically.
What id like to do is access the REST apis for lists and libraries from Node or PHP which would obviously be running externally to Sharepoint. I just don't really understand how to get started. My understanding is there is Sharepoint hosted apps (client side javascript that can access the SP apis), and provider hosted apps (which is essentially an iFrame to another web app). So out of the two I'm looking at provider hosted, but do provider hosted apps only run when called? Do they need to present a front end to show in an iframe? My project only needs to push data into lists overnight. And so do I need to register the project as a provider hosted app?? Or how do I go about getting started? And then I'm lead to believe that the app model is the 2013 way of programming for Sharepoint and the new 2016/online way is Sharepoint framework (SPFX). But then the only examples I'm seeing for this is client side apps. The second project id like to do is to make a client side app which will take the data thats in the lists from project 1 and display that in certain ways dynamically using react. So I'm fairly comfortable knowing where to start for project 2, ill just straight into developing a client side react app that uses SPFX. However I'm totally stuck on starting project 1. Where do I start for project 1? What are my options?
As far as I understand your question, You need to update your on prem list from schedular and later you will update the list in your sharepoint online.
We you can create a Provider hosted app and through configuration you can switch your destination easily.
OR you can think new way to do that. You can use Node JS timer service which insert to your on prem usign rest api later the same code will work for online you just need to change the destination.
Currenlty we are also donig it with Node. Below is the simple code to create timer in nodejs.
what is does, it read the crednentials from file and email to the user.It just a simple code and can be use to insert to SP list usign rest api.
https://github.com/halfice/Node-JS-Timer-SharePoint/blob/master/app.js
furthermore It would be more clarify if you could share picture of what you want to do
I have a Win32 application written in VB6 that uses an MS Access database as its data file.
I have about 30 clients who use this application. Each currently has it setup in their local network. Some clients have a Terminal Server for staff to access their network remotely.
A number of my clients are inquiring about the possibility of using the application in the cloud.
I am considering the possibility of ultimately making the application web based in some form, however that will take many months to do. So, in the meantime, I am looking for suggestions as to how clients could run this application in the "cloud".
Would it be possible to run it using Microsoft Azure in some way?
I am also wondering whether I could rent a Virtual Private Server myself, and then set it up to allow multiple clients to connect to it (with each using their own individual data file). My main question around this option is whether there would be additional license costs for users who need to connect (eg. like the old Terminal Services "Client Access Licenses").
One function of the application is that users are able to "attach" electronic files (word documents, pdf's etc) to file notes. These "attachments" are stored in a subfolder of the data file location (ie they are not stored in the data file). So the solution must be able to support uploading local documents to the "cloud" service.
Any ideas would be most welcome.
Many thanks,
Rohan
You could try it with "Virtual Machine" feature of MS Azure.
Acces portal.azure.com
In the left navigation bar, choose "Virtual Machine"
Click "Add", type "windows" into the search field & press
Enter
Choose the Windows VM you want
Connect, upload your VB6 app & test it...
Please be inform that some Windows VMs require MSDN subscription or cost very much.
The Azure feature you are looking for is likely Azure RemoteApp. It allows for desktop applications to be installed in the Azure "cloud" and then used by users from any device using Remote Desktop Services functionality. This way you can control the environment where the application is installed, and not have to configure every users device; which is especially helpful with older legacy applications like VB6 apps.
https://www.remoteapp.windowsazure.com/en/
EDIT: Unfortunately on August 12, 2016 Microsoft announced they are discontinuing Azure Remote App. New purchases of RemoteApp will be discontinued October 1, 2016, and the service will be replaced with an offering from Citrix called Citrix XenApp Express.
I think you should simply create a virtual server for each of your clients. Do not create 1 virtual server for everyone, that will be a nightmare and very insecure for client data.
The clients would still just access over terminal services or Remote Desktop as they have before, just the server is now in the cloud.
Then you can bill each client for the what you are charged for their server.
RUN EXCEL/ACCESS DATABASE ON THE CLOUD WITHOUT PROGRAMMING!
I can solve your problem without using Azure or similar. We would first convert your Excel/Access database to a Progen4GL-based applications, which will then run on the cloud. See downloads on www.progencloud.com.
If you can, send us a similar Access/Excel file. We will convert it to a Progen4GL database that you can run the on the cloud with full read/write access. As Progen4GL reads in Access/Excel files without programming, we can do it for your for nothing. It takes only a few minutes for the to conversion to a Progen4GL Database. We will return it to you as a Cloud application. See Progen DataOWL on www.progencloud.com and try it yourself. You will need some help from us to run it on the Cloud as the website doesn't have full details.
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we currently have two servers which manage both the emails in and out, they are where we store all the logins for the internal network and we also have a z drive where we store files.
We would like to move this to azure, but not sure how you do this exactly?
We currently host our web application here, so we're now ready to move the rest over.
There are 40+ staff and all of them use all of office's software (outlook, word, excel etc). Is it worth moving to office 365 and how would that work?
It sounds like rather than Azure, you'd want to look into Office 365 for this purpose.
They have guides on how to set up accounts and migrate your Active Directory users at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/getting-started-with-office-365-for-business-FX103993883.aspx
As far as your file share goes (the Z: drive) you would probably want to handle much of that via the SharePoint sites they provide, since neither Azure nor Office 365 provide a native method to share files using a Windows File Share-like interface. It depends on how large the file sizes are as well - the SharePoint sites cannot host files greater than 250MB.
I've noticed Microsoft has released a new version of Office Web Apps Server 2013, which is a standalone product now.
I'm looking for an engine that I can convert Word/Excel and PowerPoint documents into web-friendly versions (HTML5) for an application I've built that uploads these documents to S3 and I thought Office Web Apps Server 2013 standalone would work.
I don't want to use Google Docs, but rather use a solution that I'm hosting myself.
Reading the Office Web Apps Server documentation, it doesn't specify whether or not I need to have a SharePoint server license. I've tried deploying Office Web Apps Server on a Windows 2012 server on Microsoft Azure, and while the software installs, it is unable to render any documents that I'm pointing to it from an external URL (a publicly accessible S3 bucket).
Does anyone know the particular requirements of Office Web Apps Server 2013 to work properly? The website does state that it can be used to view documents from an external URL which is how I'm trying to use it. But since its a new product, there isn't that much information I was able to find on it other than Microsoft's deployment instructions.