Ek was een van 20 of 30 (of miskien 100?) paneellede gisteraand by die New York SharePoint Users Group meeting. Instead of the usual presentation format, Dit was al oor Q&A between the audience and the panel members. Early on, Michael Lotter lei my na 'n nuwe idee en ek wou deel.
An audience member described how his company had paid a consultant to write an application for his company. The consultant wrote it as a console application using the SharePoint object model. As 'n gevolg, this meant that the program had to be run on a server in the farm. This meant that anyone that wanted to use the app would have to log onto the server, do the work and log off. Op die eerste, dit was nie 'n probleem, maar gou, meer en meer (nie-tegniese) users needed to use the utility. His question was (parafrasering):
"What are my options? I don’t want to keep letting users log directly onto the server, maar wat hulle nodig het om daardie funksionaliteit."
Michael Lotter het voorgestel dat hy instel van 'n nuwe virtuele masjien, join it to the farm as a WFE and let users run the application from there.
This is a pretty stunning idea for me. Generalizing this solution brings to mind the notion of essentially temporary, almost disposable WFE’s. I think it’s a pretty neat concept. This temporary WFE can run a console application that uses the SharePoint object model. You could also use it to run stsadm commands. It doesn’t have to be part of regular local balancing. If it goes down or gets wrecked, you can just spin up a new one. I repeat myself, maar ek het om te sê dat ek dink dit is 'n baie netjiese idee.
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