5. Creating the App Management Service
Now that you have configured all the ancillary pieces, you can create the actual service application:
1. Make sure you are still on the Manage service applications page in Central Administration.
2. Click the New button in the Ribbon.
3. From the menu, select App Management Service.
4. For Name, enter App Management Service.
5. For Database Name, use App_Management_DB. The key here is to get rid of that nasty GUID on the end.
6. For Application pool, select Use existing application pool.
7. From the drop-down, select Default SharePoint Service App Pool.
8. Leave the default of Create App Management Service Application Proxy and add it to the default proxy group. Click OK.
After a minute the displayed message “This
shouldn’t take long,” should go away and you are returned to the Manage
service applications screen. Now you need to start the service instance:
1. Switch over to your Internet Explorer (IE) tab for Services on Server.
2. Find App Management Service and click Start to the right of it.
After a moment the screen is refreshed and the
status should be set to Started. If so, you are doing great and are in
the home stretch.
6. Configuring the App Management Service
The final step is to configure the App Management Service to use that awesome Contosoapps.com DNS Zone you created in DNS earlier:
1. Switch back over to the Manage service applications tab in IE.
2. From the left-hand menu, click Apps.
3. In the App Management section, click Configure App URLs. The page may take a minute to load, so be patient.
4. In the Configure App URLs dialog, for App domain: enter ContosoApps.com
.
5. For App prefix:, enter app. Click OK.
6. Navigate
back to the Manage service applications page by clicking Application
Management ⇒ Service Applications ⇒ Manage service applications.
Configuring the Business Data Connectivity Service
The Business Data Connectivity (BDC)
service application facilitates connecting SharePoint to external data
sources such as web services and databases so that information can be
exposed within SharePoint. This useful tool can be used by developers
or power users, so as an administrator configuring the farm you just
need to create the service application, start the service, and you are
done:
1. From the Manage service applications screen, click the New button in the Ribbon.
2. From the menu, select Business Data Connectivity Service.
3. For Name, enter BDC.
4. For Database Name, enter BDC_Service_DB. Remember to get rid of that evil GUID.
5. Scroll down to Application Pool and select Use existing application pool.
6. From the drop-down, select Default SharePoint Service App Pool.
7. At the bottom of the page, click OK. Then click OK again in the Success pop-up window.
To start the service:
1. Switch to your IE tab for Services on Server.
2. Find Business Data Connectivity Service and then click Start to the right of it.
Before users can begin creating models, external
systems, and external content types, however, you need to give them the
appropriate permissions. You can do that by opening the BDC service
application and selecting Set Metadata Store Permissions from the
Ribbon. In the dialog that appears, you can assign permissions for
Edit, Execute, Selectable in Clients, and Set Permissions.
Creating the Excel Services Application
The Excel Services Application enables
you to host and publish Excel workbooks within SharePoint so users can
consume and even work with the information without using the Excel
client. For example, you could create an Excel chart that is displayed
on the home page of your team site for all visitors. This shouldn’t be
confused with the Excel Office Web App, which is used to create and
edit workbooks in a browser version of the client.
To create the service application, follow these steps:
1. From the Manage service applications screen, click the New button in the Ribbon.
2. From the menu, select Excel Services Application.
3. For Name, enter Excel Services.
4. Scroll down to Application Pool and select Use existing application pool.
5. From the drop-down, select Default SharePoint Service App Pool.
6. Leave the
default of “Add this service application’s proxy to the farm’s default
proxy list.” Click OK at the bottom of the page.
To start the service:
1. Switch to the IE tab for Services on Server.
2. Find Excel Calculation Services and then click Start to the right of it.
That will do it. Excel is up and running.
Configuring the Managed Metadata Service
The managed metadata service
application is an old friend from SharePoint 2010 that has even more of
a starring role in 2013. You can use it to manage terms in order to
create a structured corporate taxonomy, but it is flexible enough to be
used for a user-driven folksonomy. It also supports terms in multiple
languages, and if you want to define enterprise content types you can
do so through the use of its content hub feature.
Several service applications, such as Search,
User Profiles, and even the Machine Translation Service, depend on the
managed metadata service application being provisioned, so you should
consider it required. For now, you just need to concern yourself with
creating the service application:
1. From the Manage service applications screen, click the New button in the Ribbon.
2. From the menu, select Managed Metadata Service.
3. For Name, enter Managed Metadata Service.
4. For Database Name, enter Managed_Metadata_Service_DB.
5. Scroll down to Application Pool and select Use existing application pool.
6. From the drop-down, select Default SharePoint Service App Pool.
7. Leave all
the other defaults. If you wanted to use the Content Type Hub, you
would edit the Managed Metadata Service later to provide the location.
8. Click OK at the bottom of the page.
This service application doesn’t provide any
“working on it” messages, so don’t be alarmed when nothing happens
after you click OK. Just wait a minute or two and you will be returned
to the Manage service applications screen, where you will see your new
service application.
Now start the service:
1. Switch to the IE tab for Services on Server.
2. Find Managed Metadata Web Service and then click Start to the right of it.
Although your service application is ready to go,
there is one more configuration task to perform if you want to use all
of its features. One of the useful features enabled by the managed
metadata service application is the capability to save your custom
navigation to it; but before you can play with that feature you need to
set your service application to be the default storage location:
1. From the
Manage service applications page, locate the Managed Metadata Service
you just created but this time click to the right of the second
listing of the name. If you click the name it will open the Term Store
Management Tool. That is not what you want; you need the Properties
option to be enabled in the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 12.
2. Click Properties from the Ribbon.
3. The dialog shown in Figure 13
should appear. Select the option “This service application is the
default storage location for column specific term sets,” and click OK.
