Ég var einn af 20 eða 30 (eða ef til vill 100?) panelists gærkvöldi í New York SharePoint Notendur Group meeting. Instead of the usual presentation format, þetta var allt um Q&A between the audience and the panel members. Early on, Michael Lotter kynnti mig ný hugmynd og ég vildi deila.

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. Þar af leiðandi, 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. Í fyrstu, þetta var ekki vandamál, en fljótlega, meira og meira (non-tæknilegur) 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, en þeir þurfa að virkni."

Michael Lotter kynna að hann stilla nýja raunverulegur vél, 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, en ég er bara að segja að ég held að það er mjög sniðugt hugmynd.

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