Just want to pass an idea for massive farm implementations. When a portal has a large number of people (2000-1000)–it is understandable that they would all login when they get to work say 8 or 9am. This creates a massive drain in resources.
Has anyone ever come up with a scheme to load a page–perhaps an ASPX Page with a few announcements and links instead of the Default Home Page. Obviously, the page would need to be refreshed every minute or so that it would contain something relevant for the user.
The phenomenon I’ve witnessed is that most users start the logon process then go to the bathroom, get coffee or catch up with their colleagues. This is almost the universal “SharePoint Way”.
Seems like an awful expensive waste of resources. I am aware there is Output Caching on Publishing sites but I’m brainstorming about something more.
They would only involve the massive resources of the SharePoint Page when they need to go to SharePoint.
There could be user education, as well, to inform them to navigate to this page when they don’t need the resources.
Interesting.. cuz I am one of those people, I open my VM and browse SP then I get my coffee & come back later.. yes this is a VM & it’s only me.. but do you know when SP sleeps, it takes time to wake up just in the morning its boring to wait for it.. or I even get busy with an article..
Anyway with those thousands of users, why don’t we give a welcome popup, if they are on there desk, you’d skip it [optional] if not, the welcome popup would stay there & the page won’t be fully loaded.. that way resources would be reduced ..
Just brainstorming 🙂
