7. Publishing Service Applications
For a service application to be
able to be consumed by a Web application, it must be published to the
farm. To publish service applications, complete the following steps.
These steps are only for publishing service applications that physically
reside in the farm.
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.
Open a browser and go to the SharePoint Central Administration website.
Under Application Management, click Manage Service Applications.
Select
the row that contains the service application that you want to publish.
Notice that after you select a service application, the commands on the
Ribbon become available.
Click Publish on the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 12, to open the Publish Service Application screen.
The Publish Service Application screen, shown in Figure 13, allows you to configure the service application as follows.
Select the Connection Type that you want from the drop-down list.
If
you want the service application to be available to remote farms,
select the check box for Publish This Service Application To Other
Farms.
Copy
the published URL into Notepad or another text editor. You must provide
this URL to remote farms to connect the remote farms to the published
service application. The URL will be similar to this: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:service:9c1870b7ee97445888d9e846519cfa27#authority=urn:uuid:02a493b92a5547828e21386e28056cba&authority=https://ua_powershell:32844/Topology/topology.svc.
You can optionally provide descriptive text and a link to a Web page that will be visible to administrators of remote farms.
After you have specified the publication options that you want, click OK to publish the service application.
If the service application that you are publishing is not a cross-farm service, your screen will not look like Figure 13; instead, it will look like Figure 14.
