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From: Terry Holland on 25 May 2010 07:22 This may not be the most appropriate group for this question so if there is a more relevant one then feel free to directo me to it. We have written an application for our organisation. The application has the following components ASP.Net 2.0 Application SQL Server 2005 DB Winforms scanning application (installed on clinet machines) Windows services to control printing jobs (installed on server) Scheduled tasks (installed on server) Other organisations are now interested in our application and one of the options I need to explore is whether it is feasible for the app to be sold as a hosted solution. This is something that I have not done before so I am in the process of gathering as much info as possible on the issues that may affect whether we go down this path. The questions that immediately come to mind are... 1) When setting up an hosted solution, would it be the case that the servers we hire would be on a diff domain or is it possiblle to get servers on domain of our choice? 2) at present our application uses windows authentication. AD groups are used to access fileservers. We use SQL Roles to secure various db objects and we use ASPNet Roles to control access to various web pages. Im assuming that using a hosted solution, we would not have access to AD group membership? 3) Our winforms app is used to scan documents and attach to client records. This app controls a scanner that is installed on client pc. When the docs are scanned, we currently move to our file server using a simple file.move command. Im ussuming that we would need to modify this to use ftp (secure) 4) If the hosted app (Windows services to control printing jobs) is on diff domain, how do we manage to print to printers on company domain? Im sure there are other issues that I have not mentioned. Please feel free to mention anything you feel relevant tia Terry Holland
From: Alexey Smirnov on 25 May 2010 08:29 On May 25, 1:22 pm, "Terry Holland" <nos...(a)nospam.co.uk> wrote: > 1) When setting up an hosted solution, would it be the case that the servers > we hire would be on a diff domain or is it possiblle to get servers on > domain of our choice? Usually most providers offer such service to get domains of our choice. It's also recommended to keep domain and hosting separate because of safety reasons (e.g. when you host is dead you can forward your customers to a new host). If you choose to keep domain and hosting separate, you would need to register new domain name, choose a web host, and point the domain at the registrar to your web host. Otherwise, all this can be done (in most cases) at your web host. > > 2) at present our application uses windows authentication. AD groups are > used to access fileservers. We use SQL Roles to secure various db objects > and we use ASPNet Roles to control access to various web pages. Im assuming > that using a hosted solution, we would not have access to AD group > membership? If this new site is a stand alone application then it makes no sense to think about AD for external users. Just use a role-based security... > 3) Our winforms app is used to scan documents and attach to client records. > This app controls a scanner that is installed on client pc. When the docs > are scanned, we currently move to our file server using a simple file.move > command. Im ussuming that we would need to modify this to use ftp (secure) yes > 4) If the hosted app (Windows services to control printing jobs) is on diff > domain, how do we manage to print to printers on company domain? As far as I understood, the service is used to print files on schedule. That means that it should be able to get the files. Domain in not really an issue here, because you can set up as many domains as you want pointing to the same server. The issue is that you should be able to access files from that FTP server you mentioned above. So, if FTP will be located outside of your corporate network you probably should do another service which would copy files from remote FTP to your print server. And only after that you will be able to print these files.
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