Scenario:
- Windows 2012 Server with SharePoint 2013 (March PU) and SQL 2012 Sp1 Installed
- Zen Load balancer – to see how APP Management handles through Load balanced URL’s
- APP Management URL within a domain called sp2013stndapp.com for the SharePoint farm hosted on abensamuel.com domain.
Steps Involved:
- Creating a Forward Lookup Zone within the DNS Platform
- Within the Forward Lookup Zone Creating a CNAME for the Apps Domain created in step 1
- Starting Subscription and App Management Service within the SharePoint farm
- Configuring App Management Service within the SharePoint farm
- Configuring within Central Admin for the App MGMT URL
Creating a forward Lookup Zone
- Open your DNS Manager from your DNS Server.
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Right Click on your Forward Lookup Zone and choose to create a new Zone
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Finish the wizard for the new app domain that would be hosted within the domain
Creating a CNAME for the Apps Domain
- Browse to the new domain that was created above
- Right click to create a New CNAME Record.
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Provide a “*” to indicate the entry will be a wildcard entry for the domain ( Explanation at the end when the URL’s for the apps get generated J )
- The entry is pointed at the Load balancer VIP (Virtual IP) which will send any traffic that hits that IP and Port onto the SharePoint 2013 farm.
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Verify that the domain has been setup properly by pinging
Starting Subscription and App Management Service within the SharePoint farm
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Either browse to Manage Services on Server and start the following two services or Use PowerShell to get them started:
- App Management Service
- Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service
Configuring Subscription Settings within the SharePoint Farm
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Using PowerShell configure the subscription settings
Sample Script:
$appPoolSubSvc = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name “SharePoint(SPPOC)Subscription App Pool” -Account $account -EA 0
$appSubSvc = New-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplication –ApplicationPool $appPoolSubSvc –Name $SettingsServiceApp –DatabaseName $SubDB
$proxySubSvc = New-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplicationProxy –ServiceApplication $appSubSvc
Configuring App Manager Service within the SharePoint Farm
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Configure a new App Management Service to run within the SharePoint farm via PowerShell or via Central Admin
Configuring the App Management URL via Central Admin
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Browse to the APP Section within Central Admin and click on Configure App URLs section
Restart the Server / Server Farm
- Very important that all the servers within the farm is restarted.
Create an Access Services App to be provisioned within a site
- Steps are here for creating an Access Services APP (Post is in the oven currently being baked)
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Browse to the site that you would be creating the Access app and browse to site contents and click on Add an APP
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Browse to the page that displays Access APP
These are the steps that are required in getting App Management Service running within the SharePoint Farm.
Cheers
Troubleshooting : Please check this post for some tips: http://wellytonian.com/2013/09/access-app-service-setup-sharepoint-2013/
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