When doing Site upgrades/ releases for our organisation there are occasions when we would like to be able to direct a group of users to a new version of the site while leaving the majority of users on the exisiting version of a site. Accepting that there would
be considerations with the underlying database both versions would be required to share and also not wanting to get into a debate about properly testing releases before deployment, can anyone help with a strategy we may use to achieve this please? I was guessing
there may be configuration in IIS to help achieve this and we have come accross reference to ISA servers but again, not sure if this is what is required? I have googled around the words 'user + redirection' but this is not yielding the results I was hoping
for.
You could do it via ASP.NET. Check if the user is in the desired group and redirect him to the new location. You could create a key in the web.config to turn this on/off.
Bishjo
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Redirecting Certain Users to a 'Pilot' site
Nov 22, 2012 04:52 PM|LINK
Hi,
When doing Site upgrades/ releases for our organisation there are occasions when we would like to be able to direct a group of users to a new version of the site while leaving the majority of users on the exisiting version of a site. Accepting that there would be considerations with the underlying database both versions would be required to share and also not wanting to get into a debate about properly testing releases before deployment, can anyone help with a strategy we may use to achieve this please? I was guessing there may be configuration in IIS to help achieve this and we have come accross reference to ISA servers but again, not sure if this is what is required? I have googled around the words 'user + redirection' but this is not yielding the results I was hoping for.
Any help appreciated. Thanks
Jon
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Re: Redirecting Certain Users to a 'Pilot' site
Nov 24, 2012 06:46 AM|LINK
Hello,
You could do it via ASP.NET. Check if the user is in the desired group and redirect him to the new location. You could create a key in the web.config to turn this on/off.
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