Tutto ciò che c'è da sapere per muovere le proprie soluzioni SharePoint su Office 365.

1. PREPARARSI A SPOSTARE LE PROPRIE
APPLICAZIONI SHAREPOINT SUL
CLOUD (OFFICE 365)
GIUSEPPE MARCHI – SHAREPOINT MVP
In collaborazione con …

2. WHO IS PEPPE?
• Co-founder of Dev4Side S.r.l.
• (SharePoint Developer position open: http://www.dev4side.com/it/careers)
• 5 years Microsoft SharePoint MVP
• Speaker in Microsoft and Community events in Italy
• MCP, MCPD Web applications, MCTS ASP.NET 4, WSS 3.0, MOSS
2007 and SharePoint 2010
• "SharePointer" from 2005
• Father of www.peppedotnet.it  (10 years of technical blogging)
• Author of the book «Pocket C#», Apogeo
• Active member, speaker and promoter of
SharePointCommunity.it
• First, in Italy, with an App in the Office Store
• One of the TOP 25 SharePoint Influencers in Europe

3. WHAT IS DEV4SIDE?
Dev4Side is a smart and flexible software factory
built by professionists that work on new technologies
field.
Based in Milan, Dev4Side is specialized in software
development, training and technical consulting,
using Microsoft technologies and all the latest
frameworks and stacks for software development in
the web, client and mobile fields.
Dev4Side is a Microsoft Partner and ISO 9001
certified.

4. AGENDA
• Office 365, what’s new for devs
– The new cloud app model
– The new APIs
• How to move your solutions to the cloud

5. The new cloud app model
Build a new class of apps that extend and personalize the
way we create and consume information right from
within Office and SharePoint
New Apps
A new class of apps enabling new
scenarios and new user experiences
Familiar Toolsets
Embracing Web standards to provide
developers choice and flexibility
Flexible Lifecycle
Deploy and maintain your apps publically
on the new Office Store, or internally with
Flexibility and control

6. The new cloud app model
App
(web application)
Office client
Word/Excel/PowerPoint/…
SharePoint site

7. Apps for Office and SharePoint

8. App anatomy
App
App ManifestWeb Page
<XML>
HTML/CSS/JS

9. Types of SharePoint Apps
Get remote events
from SharePoint
Use CSOM/REST +
OAuth to work with
SP
Cloud-based
Apps
Provider-Hosted App
“Bring your own server hosting
infrastructure”
Developers will need to isolate tenants
SharePoint
Web
Your Hosted
Site
App Web
(optional)
SharePoint
Web
App Web
Parent
Web
(host web)
SharePoint-Hosted App
Provision an isolated sub web on a parent web
• Reuse web elements
(lists, files, out-of-box web parts)
• No server code allowed; use client
JavaScript for logic, HTML/CSS for UX
Cloud Business App
Windows Azure + SQL Azure
provisioned invisibly as apps are
installed
Your Hosted
Site

10. How Apps take data from O365?
App
(web application)
SharePoint
site
• Every Apps can talk with SharePoint using:
– Client Side Object Model
– REST APIs

11. How is managed the secuirty?
• A single App can communicate with SharePoint
only…
– after authorization
– after authentiction
App
(web application)
SharePoint
site

12. Which are the benefits of this model?
• This is the only way in which we can do real
customizations in Office365
– The migration path is faster
• Now the upgrade path is more simple
• Better isolation
• You can re-use your skill in web
development

13. HOW CAN WE PREPARE OUR
SOLUTIONS OR OURSELF TO
MOVE TO THE CLOUD?

14. First: knowing what is cloud-friendly
• FARM SOLUTIONS: NO!
– No server-side object model
– No feature receivers
– No timer jobs
– No event receivers
– No custom fields
– No site definitions
– No custom web parts
• SANDBOX SOLUTIONS: YES, partially …
– We cannot use code in Sandbox solutions
• APPS: YES!
– This is the suggested model

15. Second: knowing what you can use
to replace farm solutions
Farm solution artifacts App model/remote code artifacts
Web parts App parts
Event receivers Remote event receivers
Application pages Pages in Provider-Hosted Apps
Site definitions Web templates in Sandbox Solutions
Custom fields Client Side Rendering templates
Custom user controls App parts, Javascript in page
Custom ribbon controls/custom actions The same, but with Apps pages/Javascript scripts
Timer jobs Scheduled processes in Azure
Branding solutions The same, but without server-side code
Feature receivers /
Workflows Declarative workflows in Apps
Custom authentication /
Run with elevated privileges App-only authentication
Powershell scripts Powershell scripts with CSOM

16. Tips and tricks
• Visual web parts
– You can easly migrate the markup into pages in an app
– You have to migrate the code-behind from server-side object
model to CSOM
• Code web parts
– You have to create the new markup code into App pages
– You have to migrate functionalities from server-side object
model to CSOM
• Event receivers
– You can user remote event receivers for App events, list/items
events, web events
• Provisioning
– You can use remote code (Javascript scripts or App pages) to
provision artifacts to the host web
– You can use Sandbox solutions for the provisioning of no-code
artifacs into the host web

17. Tips and tricks (2)
• Javascript development
– If you’re working with Javascript in your
SharePoint on-prem solutions, start to use
REST APIs... The migration path to a
SharePoint-Hosted app will be easier than
you think

18. Powershell scripts
• Powershell in Office 365 actually has only
30 cmdlets for SharePoint Online
– In SharePoint on-premises we have more than
750 scripts…
• Which is the simple solution?
– Use Powershell with CSOM!

19. Updated in October 2014
http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP

20. THANKS 
• Blog: www.peppedotnet.it
• Mail: info@peppedotnet.it
• Twitter: @PeppeDotNet