Comments on: Ray Henderson/Michael Chasen Keynote http://aimlessmusing.com/2009/07/17/ray-hendersonmichael-chasen-keynote/ Occasional writings on things that interest me Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:20:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scott http://aimlessmusing.com/2009/07/17/ray-hendersonmichael-chasen-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Scott Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:27:41 +0000 http://aimlessmusing.com/?p=32#comment-18 Yeah, the portal thing isn't an issue for us either, since we already have a portal. We actually used an LEC-like strategy when we moved from CE4 to Vista... we just had to write our own integration components. It worked nicely. Depending on the details of how the LEC works, we may just end up doing our own thing with BB9 too. Yeah, the portal thing isn’t an issue for us either, since we already have a portal. We actually used an LEC-like strategy when we moved from CE4 to Vista… we just had to write our own integration components. It worked nicely.

Depending on the details of how the LEC works, we may just end up doing our own thing with BB9 too.

]]> By: ez http://aimlessmusing.com/2009/07/17/ray-hendersonmichael-chasen-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-17 ez Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:57:08 +0000 http://aimlessmusing.com/?p=32#comment-17 As Amy says, "Our clients already have portals. Why do they need yet another?" We are running Vista 3 and Vista 8 parallel to each others. So we essentially have 14 production clusters (4 v3, 10 v8). The portal so end users can see just one like Blackboard's Co-Production model could help ease confusion. We've minimized confusion by telling the users to look for a particular URL for their institution. That address puts them at the login for their institution (load balancer redirect). So go-live for them is when we change DNS to point them to the new system. This was very effective when we divided our 2 clusters into 4. We are using it again for migrating from Vista 3 to Vista 8 with the added hitch of having additional addresses for getting to v8 early and v3 later. As Amy says, “Our clients already have portals. Why do they need yet another?” We are running Vista 3 and Vista 8 parallel to each others. So we essentially have 14 production clusters (4 v3, 10 v8). The portal so end users can see just one like Blackboard’s Co-Production model could help ease confusion.

We’ve minimized confusion by telling the users to look for a particular URL for their institution. That address puts them at the login for their institution (load balancer redirect). So go-live for them is when we change DNS to point them to the new system. This was very effective when we divided our 2 clusters into 4. We are using it again for migrating from Vista 3 to Vista 8 with the added hitch of having additional addresses for getting to v8 early and v3 later.

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