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Writer's pictureVijai Anand Ramalingam

Creating Provider-Hosted App in Office 365 and Azure Using VS 2013: Part 2

Updated: Mar 18, 2019

In my previous article Creating Provider-Hosted App in Office 365 and Azure Using VS 2013: Part 1 you saw how to perform the following procedure:

  1. Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site.

  2. Sign up for an Azure trial subscription.

  3. Set up an App Catalog in Office 365.

  4. Create a Provider-Hosted App using Visual Studio 2013.

In this article you will perform the following procedure:

  1. Publish the web to Microsoft Azure Websites.

  2. Register the App in Office 365.

  3. Configure the app settings for Azure Website.


Publish the web to Microsoft Azure Websites

  • In the Solution Explorer, right-click on MyFirstProvidedHostedApp and then click on Publish.


  • Select the publish target as Microsoft Azure Websites.


  • In the Select Existing Website wizard, click on the Sign In button.


  • Enter the email address of the Azure account.


  • Click on the Continue button.

  • Enter the Azure credentials and then click on the Sign in button.


  • Once you have signed in, click on the New button to create a new website in Azure.


  • Enter the Site Name, select the Region and then click on the Create button.


  • Create a new website in Azure.


  • In the Publish web wizard, click on the Publish button.


  • The site is opened in a new tab and you will be getting an error message as shown below. This is because we have not yet configured the app settings, that will be done in a later section. Save the site URL (http://myfirstprovidedhostedapp.azurewebsites.net/) separately for later use that will be used when configuring the app.


Register the app in Office 365

  • Log into the O365 developer site as an administrator (Example: https://c986.sharepoint.com/).

  • From the developer site, navigate to /_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx (Example: https://c986.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx).

  • Click Generate next to the Client ID.

  • Click Generate next to the Client Secret.

  • Enter First Provider Hosted App as the Title.

  • Enter the App Domain for the Azure web site you created earlier (for example: myfirstprovidedhostedapp.azurewebsites.net).

  • Enter the Redirect URI as the reference for the page (for example: https://myfirstprovidedhostedapp.azurewebsites.net/). Make sure you add the reference URL with the https protocl.

  • Click on the Create button.


  • The App identifier is created successfully as shown below. Save the Client ID and Client Secret separately for later use.


Configure the app settings for Azure Website

  • Log into the Windows Azure portal as an administrator.

  • Click on Websites in the left navigation. You could be able to see the website that we have deployed previously.


  • Click on the website.

  • Click on the Configure tab.


  • Go to the app settings section and create the following entries. (Copy the Client Id and Client Secret that we have generated in Office 365 previously).


  • Save the changes.

In the next article you will see how to publish the app and add the app to the Office 365 developer site.

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