There’s a lot of buzz nowadays about moving to Office 365 and using the App Model to extend and customize the platform. However, I know a lot of folks aren’t even considering Office 365 just yet, so I was wondering how are you developing “Apps” internally?
Are you using Full Trust Farm solutions? Or, are you starting to create Apps internally? I am guessing the decision points will be based on the fact that Farm Solutions are far quicker to develop, but harder to migrate in the future. Whereas “Apps” are slow to develop but set you up for a potential move to Office 365…
Love to hear your thoughts…
Haha, Colin, we gonna meet at SharePoint Saturday Sydney the following week. You and me gonna present (LOL!), so let’s have a closer look on the topic highlighted. I’d be more than happy to help as much as I can. Btw, I am just presenting on the “provisioning” topic massing up with PnP/SPMeta2 🙂
As for polarising people, that’s fine. Let’s have a look what ideas we have on the table, maybe you know something I don’t, and maybe I do something you don’t. That plays well 🙂
>>There is lack of leadership here which actually makes me somewhat disappointed in Microsoft.Â
Well, how about uservoice/yammer groups? They are literally BOOMING providing so much help and outcome that people around have a “WTF” moment wondering “Hey, is that Microsoft? Really? That do SUCH an amazing job provising support, hearing us, making things happen via Yammer/Uservoice”. Some people literally can’t believe that MS is doinng such turn around, but Yammer/UserVoice just shows it – they truly do AMAZING push, they really do amazing improvements. So, not sure what’s the lack of the ledership is meant – UserVoice/Yammer is there. Tons of things are open source now. PnP is growing at github. Jemery and Vesu are making such a terrific uplift that people are amazed to be on MS stack nowadays 😉
Anyway, that’s discussion about apps. Yes, we do use, yes, we see it as a good things, yes, it s not something fully polished, but the benefits and value provided might make a final call.
Let’s just have a closer look on pros/cons of farm solutions/apps and see what we can take out of that, shall we? This time, please, would be nice to include client’s benefits along with developer’s benefits. They come along and it’s a bit tricky to mention only developers cons, and avoid clients’ benefits. What’s you think of it?
