Connecting Child Farms to NewsGator Services on the Parent Farm
For Aurea Social to work properly in a multi-farm environment, the child farms must connect to the parent farm's NewsGator Social Platform Service.
The same is true of the managed service applications of some modules that may be included with your installation of Aurea Social.
Below are instructions on how to do this. They are described in two stages:
- Open SharePoint Central Administration on the parent farm.
- Under the Application Management area, click the Manage Service Applications link.
- From the list that appears, select NewsGator Social Platform Services (or NewsGator News Stream Services, or other module's service; but do not click on the name itself, which navigates away to a different page).
- In the menu area, click Publish. A dialog window titled Publish Service Application displays.
- Check Publish this Service Application to other farms.
- If not all the child farms have a trust relationship as yet with the parent farm, this needs to be set up. The link in the Trusted Farms section gives you the opportunity to do so now.
- Copy and save the Published URL for use later in this process.
- Click OK to close the dialog and publish the service.
- Open SharePoint Central Administration on a child farm.
- Under the Application Management area, click the Manage Service Applications link.
- At the top of the page that appears, click Connect, then select the service you want to connect to (NewsGator Social Platform Services, NewsGator News Stream Services, NewsGator Enrich Services, or other module's service).
- A dialog, Connect to a Remote Service Application appears. Enter the Published URL of the service you're trying to connect to ( copied in step 7 of Stage I: Publishing the services from the parent farm).
- Click OK.
- The dialog remains and now displays all service applications that are at the URL you specified. There should be only one item in the list. Select it.
- Leave Add this service application's proxy to the farm's default proxy list checked.
- Click OK.
- Rename the connection (Optional).
- Click OK.
- Repeat steps 3-9 for each service application you need to connect to from the parent farm. When completed, you'll see something like the following on the Manage Service Applications page:
- Repeat steps 1-11 for each child farm.