DTaylor's Blog

I’ve recently been asked some questions about the internal load balancer for service applications in SharePoint 2010, which I’ll summarize here. What is the Service Application Load Balancer? In order to simplify installation of multi-machine server farms...

By request, see the attached file for an early look at the source code for the Calculator Service as a Visual Studio 2010 project. This is a work in progress. Some features are not yet implemented, and I haven’t yet explained some of the implemented features...

So far, we’ve been covering the service side of our Calculator service. We have a working service application that can be deployed and managed in a SharePoint server farm. In this article, we’ll switch focus to the client side. Remember that SharePoint...

One of the game-changing features of SharePoint 2010 is support for claims-based identities. It opens up a whole new set of exciting scenarios by blowing the doors off of the walled garden of the Active Directory. Well, maybe I exaggerate, but only slightly...

In Part 7 of this series, we created a cmdlet to allow an SharePoint farm administrator to easily modify settings of our Calculator service application using PowerShell. In this article, we’ll add support for delegated administration. About Delegated...

In Part 6 of this series, we created a custom setting for our Calculator service application and a web page to manage the setting from the SharePoint Central Administration web site. In this article, we’ll create the accompanying PowerShell cmdlet so...

In Part 5 of this series, we created a PowerShell cmdlet to enable SharePoint administrators to script deployment of our Calculator service application in a server farm. In this article, we’ll create a custom setting that administrators can use to modify...

In Part 4 of this series, we integrated our Calculator service application creation and provisioning experience with the SharePoint Central Administration site. While this provides a nice experience for ad-hoc SharePoint deployments, we would also like...

In Part 3 of this series, we created a service application class that represents a logical endpoint of our Calculator service in the SharePoint server farm topology. We also created a temporary installer (a batch file) to put our service files in the...

In Part 2 of this series, we integrated our Calculator service with the SharePoint server farm topology by extending the SPIisWebService and SPIisWebServiceInstance classes. These two classes allow administrators to use the SharePoint UX to view the topology...

In Part 1 of this series, we created a basic WCF service contract and the necessary configuration files to host the service in IIS. In this article, we’ll integrate our service with the SharePoint management experience so that SharePoint administrators...

This is the first in a series of articles where we’ll build a simple calculator service to demonstrate how a web service can be integrated into SharePoint. We’ll start by building a WCF service with a single method, the “Add” method, which takes two integer...

In a previous post, I described the five core classes (SPService, SPServiceInstance, SPServiceApplication, SPServiceProxy, and SPServiceApplicationProxy) that comprise the core of the SharePoint 2010 Service Application Framework. I also outlined some...

The SharePoint Service Application Framework object model supports many different server farm topologies. Let’s explore some of them. Single Application Server In this topology, the service is comprised of a service application hosted in a single...

In my last post , I described the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Application Framework (SAF) object model. To make these concepts more concrete, let’s design a simple calculator service using SAF. Specification Our calculator service will...

The Service Application Framework (SAF) in SharePoint Foundation 2010 was designed with specific goals in mind: It should provide the benefits of the MOSS 2007 Shared Service Provider (SSP), such as a unified service management experience, without...