Bhí mé ar cheann de 20 nó 30 (nó b'fhéidir 100?) panelists aréir ag an Nua-Eabhrac Grúpa Úsáideoirí SharePoint meeting. Instead of the usual presentation format, Bhí sé seo ar fad faoi Q&A between the audience and the panel members. Early on, Michael Lotter isteach dom smaoineamh nua agus theastaigh uaim a roinnt.
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. Mar thoradh air sin, 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. Ar dtús, Ní raibh sé seo ina fhadhb, ach go luath, níos mó agus níos mó (neamh-theicniúil) users needed to use the utility. His question was (paraphrasing):
"What are my options? I don’t want to keep letting users log directly onto the server, ach is gá iad go feidhmiúlacht."
Michael Lotter fios go bhfuil sé chumrú le meaisín fíorúil nua, 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, ach tá mé díreach tar éis a rá go Sílim go bhfuil sé ag smaoineamh i ndáiríre neat.
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