Dec 5, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Request Management Service. Lack of UI for configuring.

This week I studied at SharePoint 2013 Ignite ITPRO training in Moscow.
I learned very nice SharePoint 2013 functionality called "Request Management".

You can get a lot of info about RM here and here.

However I found that there is NO User Interface at SP2013 for Configuring Request Management Service. It should be configured using PowerShell only. That's nice for crazy geek admins, but not for me:)

I think one can create UI for RM and sell it. It would be awesome to sell it using new Office Store. But unfortunately new App Model doesn't support this task. We can use S2S for impersonating, but the new Client Object Model doesn't have any methods for configuring farm services such as Remote Management Service.
So the task of creating UI for SharePoint 2013 Request Management can only be done using classical SP2010 approach e.g. create non App-based solution with Server-side SharePoint Object Model.

Well, maybe I will try to do it in the future.