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Thursday, 28 June 2007
Sitecore on Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007
Sitecore will be attending at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference again this year. And just as last year, we will be sponsoring the event as a Gold sponsor together with Computer Associates, Citrix, Fujitsu, OnBase and Intel. It’s fun to see a company you have been part of forming suddenly appear on boards equally to these well-known companies.
Anyway, we’ll be around 10 people totally there whereas around half will be from our US offices.
Why am I there? I will participate as part of my job as the responsible of TP/ISV partnerships. I’m hoping to find potential technology partners which has software solutions that might directly plug in to our product (or vice versa). I also hope to talk to Microsoft employees who are working in within the “web sphere” and middleware, for example SaaS (or now Software and service), ISV Ecosystem, SharePoint, BizTalk etc.
Finally, as part of the evangelist team, I will support our exhibitor booth in case of technical questions.
You should come and visit us at booth 809. It should be hard to miss.
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007
Controlling users with Sitecore: Who’s online?
This article applies to Sitecore 5.3.1.
Like many other applications, Sitecore licensing can be based on a backend user count basis, limiting more than a given amount of concurrent users. When a server reaches a limit, next user who want to log on, will be denied access until someone leaves the Sitecore server.
As with many web based applications, this may pose a challenge in organizations where users tend to leave the application by closing the browser window. As the server never gets a log off command, it must wait until the session times out, - then logs out the user. This leaves a regular time span where Sitecore may deny users from logging on to the server because they have not yet “timed out” (the standard session timeout is 20 minutes).
Here’s a tool that uses the Sitecore DomainAccessGuard class which holds information about the logged on users and their last actions. I’ve added an application shortcut to the tray, and if you wish to, you can apply admin/security only access to this shortcut.
Finally I’ve added the ability to kick off an idle user. The status column indicates the last activity where green is an action within 2 minutes, 2-5 minutes and red marks “older” actions. On the screenshot, I’m about to kick off user Audrey.
This Sitecore package contains an installer for the application and the shortcut. Besides this, it comes with full source code and a web project.
Download:
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