How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services

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Robin Sharepoint Blog — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:20:13 GMT

Great stuff guys!

btw is that Nintex Workflow I see in the first picture? ;)

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re: How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services

lfarho — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:43:41 GMT

Did you have any trouble deploying to a medium sized farm with multiple WFEs going thru a load balancer? Curious to know if the info path form services had any trouble accessing the web service. Also, did you have kerberos enabled so the user can be authenticated into the web service? In other words, did the form services request for the web service go back to the load balancer back into a different WFE?

re: How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services

Eric Bowden — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:23:40 GMT

Hi lfarho,

Good question!

Our implementations thus far have not included multiple web front ends or load balancing, so we haven't had to deal with requests crossing server boundaries requiring credentials delegation.

One thing to point out though is that our web services were SharePoint hosted web services. I haven't put my hands on the scenario you are describing but my best guess is that the web service request would not necessarily fire back to the WFE serving up the InfoPath form. I imagine that forwarding credentials from one SharePoint WFE to another would be somehow handled in a manner not requiring kerberos delegation config. If you have time to pull out your dev tools, something such as a web part which calls into a SharePoint hosted web service would be an easy way to test this out.

Anyone else have experience with this?