Ako ay isa sa mga 20 o 30 (o siguro 100?) panelists kagabi sa New York SharePoint User Group meeting. Instead of the usual presentation format, ito ay tungkol sa lahat ng Q&A between the audience and the panel members. Early on, Michael Lotter ipinakilala ako sa isang bagong ideya at Nais kong ibahagi ang.
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. Bilang isang resulta, 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. Nang una, ito ay hindi isang problema, ngunit sa lalong madaling panahon, higit pa at higit pa (hindi pang-teknikal) 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, pero kailangan nila na pag-andar."
Michael Lotter iminungkahi na siya i-configure ang isang bagong virtual machine, 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, ngunit ko na lang ay sabihin na sa tingin ko ito ay talagang isang kapong baka ideya.
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