Tagged: Cloud-Hosted Apps
SPS Events DC (Chevy Chase) Recap
A huge thank you to everyone who came out to SPS Events DC at the Microsoft office in Chevy Chase, MD today! I was honored to represent Fulcrum at my fourth SPS Event so far in 2014 and speak to a crowd of developers and IT professionals about cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint 2013.
With the recent news from the Office 365 Team about the Autohosted Apps Preview Program (spoiler alert: it ends June 30th), I have refined this talk to focus almost exclusively on Provider-hosted apps for SharePoint 2013. If your organization has made any investments in Autohosted apps (and each of the last two times I have given this talk, at least one person in the audience has), there is a step-by-step guide for transitioning your Autohosted apps to Provider-hosted apps here.
There was tremendous audience participation during my session today, which I always appreciate. We had lots of good discussions about “the art of the possible” with Provider-hosted apps, including when to use CSOM, JSOM, and/or REST in our apps. We also discussed OAuth and the cross-domain library, which allow us to securely access and manipulate data stored in SharePoint from external web applications, whether they live on-premises or in the cloud.
I love speaking at SPS Events DC, which happen each year in Reston and Chevy Chase. The team of organizers and volunteers who put this event together are second to none, and it’s always fun to catch up with so many of my friends and colleagues in the DC SharePoint community.
My slide deck from today’s session is below. The code I used in my sample Provider-hosted app may be downloaded here. Feel free to reach out to me in the comments or on Twitter if you have any questions!
SharePoint Event brings Fulcrum to Boston
Photo courtesy @SPBrennan
As you read in my previous post, Fulcrum frequently travels across Virginia and the DC metro area to speak about the capabilities of the SharePoint platform to software developers, IT professionals, and end users at SharePoint user groups and one-day conferences known as SPS (SharePoint Saturday) Events. These events are held in cities around the world and are completely free to the public. The speakers and attendees at these events volunteer their time and sacrifice a Saturday to help others learn more about SharePoint and all the possibilities it offers. On April 12th, I headed north to Beantown to present at the SPS Boston Event at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Fulcrum develops and maintains many custom solutions built on the SharePoint platform for our Army INSCOM and Department of Education customers, among others. Many of these solutions are built using a paradigm known as “farm solutions,” where custom code utilizes resources on the same servers that run SharePoint. This can potentially have an adverse impact on the performance of the SharePoint environment. To address this, SharePoint 2013 introduces a brand new app development model that allows custom code to be deployed anywhere, including the cloud or even a Java application server! I presented a session entitled “Build Secure Cloud-Hosted Apps for SharePoint 2013.” In this session, I demonstrated different ways that apps hosted in the cloud can securely work with data stored in SharePoint and discussed how the new app model has the potential to revolutionize SharePoint development, making SharePoint farms run more reliably and efficiently while helping our customers to realize significant cost savings.
If you are interested in learning more about SharePoint 2013 and the new app development model, I encourage you to reach out to me—or any other member of the SharePoint community—anytime. Members of the SharePoint community pride themselves on being accessible and are eager to share their knowledge, guidance, and advice with other SharePoint users around the world. To find the next SPS Event near you, visit http://spsevents.org.
Fulcrum Presents at Regional SharePoint Events
Many of our government customers leverage different versions of SharePoint to collaborate, automate business processes, and share data. Fulcrum has developed numerous custom solutions built on the SharePoint platform. In addition to being a robust and feature-rich platform, SharePoint is widely known for its enthusiastic community of developers, administrators, and end users who freely volunteer their time and energy to share their knowledge at one-day conferences known as SPS (SharePoint Saturday) Events, as well as local and regional SharePoint user groups around the world. These events are completely free to the public, who also volunteer their time to learn more about SharePoint and all the possibilities it offers. I have had the privilege of representing the talented SharePoint professionals at Fulcrum, presenting at several such events over the past few months.
Last November 7th, I presented an introductory session on the new app development model for SharePoint 2013 at the Federal SharePoint User Group and Women in SharePoint DC. This paradigm shift for custom development promises greater reliability and up-time in on-premises SharePoint environments like the ones our customers rely on for critical mission operations. On January 11th, I had the privilege of presenting at SPS Events – Virginia Beach. This was the third year I have spoken at this event. My session was entitled Put it on a Map! Using the new Location and Map Features in SharePoint 2013. As the name implies, I spoke about the many enhancements the latest version of SharePoint offers with respect to “geolocation metadata”—essentially plotting data associated with a particular location on a map. This gives us the potential to bring engaging mapping solutions to our clients and their customers more readily and reliably than ever before. These capabilities are of particular interest to our defense and military customers, where enabling our Armed Forces to quickly and efficiently find information based on a geographic location can save lives. I also presented the Put it on a Map! session at the Reston SharePoint User Group on March 10th.
I will be representing Fulcrum at SPS Events – Boston on April 12th and at several other SPS Events and user groups in the months ahead, presenting more advanced sessions about building secure cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint 2013.
If you are currently using SharePoint, or are just interested in learning more about it, I encourage you to reach out to me—or any other member of the SharePoint community—anytime. Members of the SharePoint community pride themselves on being accessible and are eager to share their knowledge, guidance, and advice with other SharePoint users around the world. If you are interested in learning more about Fulcrum’s capabilities, I encourage you to visit our website at http://www.fulcrumco.com.