Multiple SharePoint Servers as Endpoints [#1052114]

The current setup is locked to one SharePoint instance. We need to make sure that you can specify multiple endpoints.

Each endpoint should have:
* A URL where the sharepoint server is located
* Whatever information we need to have to authenticate against the sharepoint instance.

The most sane approach is probably to use the variable storage to save each endpoint, since that let's us use the settings file for definining endpoint if we want to, while we still will be able to define endpoints in the UI.

Comments

Comment #1

studiosander CreditAttribution: studiosander commented 7 February 2011 at 10:06

sharepoint with multiple servers works always with one URL. Using Microsoft NLB (Network LoadBalancing) is used to create multiple frontend servers. So for drupal is it not necessary to be able to connect to more then one endpoint!

Comment #2

fabsor CreditAttribution: fabsor commented 7 February 2011 at 17:25

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» 7.x-1.x-dev

Hi!

Yes that is true as long as you use one Server Farm. However if you for some reason would like to connect to a sharepoint server located at a completely different network, and the Sharepoint servers has no relation to each other, multiple endpoints are still needed.

Also, each endpoint will have login credentials and authentication method attached to them, and you might want to use different endpoints with different permissions that still use the same sharepoint instance.