To install and configure an IIS web farm, follow these steps: Install IIS Web Farm Infrastructure, Configure IIS Web Farm Servers, Configure IIS Web Farm Load Balancing, Configure SSL Central Certificate Store, and Configure Application Deployment.
Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0 for IIS 7
To develop a plan for installing and configuring an IIS web farm, follow these steps: Plan IIS Web Farm Infrastructure, Plan IIS Web Farm Configuration, Plan IIS Web Farm Load Balancing, Plan SSL Central Certificate Store, and Plan Application Deployment.
In the second phase of planning a web farm, determine what is needed to configure shared content and shared configuration. In addition, learn how to add web servers to your farm.
This article shows how you can develop and run an application to set up and manage the Web Farm Framework using C# or any other .NET Framework language. The example in this section shows how to use the Web Farm Framework library to create a server farm...
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In the second phase of building your web farm, you configure shared content and shared configuration on your first web server. Then you add more web servers to your farm.
You can use the Web Farm Framework cmdlets for Windows PowerShell to configure and manage your server farm. You must have Windows PowerShell installed on the web farm controller. To use the Web Farm Framework cmdlets for Windows PowerShell On the contr...
This document contains an overview of the Build a web farm with IIS servers scenario. It also contains links to additional information and community resources related to the scenario.
Web Farm Framework enables you to define and schedule custom tasks using Workflow Builder. These custom tasks can run on all servers in your web farm. Using Workflow Builder, you can define tasks (workflows) that plug into most operations within a runn...
Deploy and manage Web sites and applications across large farms of Web servers from a central place.
Now that IIS is installed all web servers. All web servers share both contend and configuration. And IIS and ARR are installed on your load balancing server. It is time to configure ARR and turn your servers into a functioning web farm.
This scenario shows how to plan and configure a web farm with servers that run the Windows Server® 2012 operating system. The scenario is divided into two phases: a plan and design phase, and an install and configure phase. In the plan and design phase, you learn what the concepts needed to confi...
The first step in planning your web farm is to decide its infrastructure. What server configuration do you want? What technologies do you employ? How do you perform load balancing? Does your site need SSL security? This topic presents the information you need to create a high-level plan for your...
This article describes how to install and configure the Microsoft Web Farm Framework (WFF) 2.0 for IIS 7 and above. It covers the following: How to set up and configure a primary server with the set of platform components and content that you want. How...
You can use the Web Farm Framework 2.0 for IIS 7 and above to perform both platform and application provisioning on the servers in your server farm. You can also install applications and components by selecting them from a list of products offered by t...
Implement a scalable Web infrastructure with built-in HTTP-based load balancing and intelligent request handling and routing.
In this phase of planning a web farm with IIS servers, you learn about load balancing. You also learn how to configure load balancing by using Application Request Routing (ARR). ARR is a proxy-based request routing and load balancing module for IIS.
In the past, setting up web farm servers, deploying content to them, and then managing them has been a tedious and error-prone process. It has required many manual and repetitive steps and ongoing tracking of the platform components, along with writing...
The first step in installing and configuring an IIS 8 web farm is to install IIS on the web servers and load balancing server. Then install Application Request Routing (ARR) on the load balancing server. Finally, set up your website on one of the web servers. The goal of this step is to get the s...
This article describes the system and platform requirements for setting up Web Farm Framework 2.0 for IIS 7 and above in order to create and manage a server farm. Note : The hardware requirements for Web Farm Framework 2.0 are the same as the requireme...
You can run an operation on all of the servers in the farm, or you can perform an operation on a single server.The types of operations you can perform on a server fit into the following categories: Server and service control. You can change the state o...
Web Farm Framework enables you to control the provisioning of selected folders using its default synchronization provider. The default behavior of the provider is to provision all the files and directories from the primary server to all secondary serve...
Managing large web farms with IIS and Windows Server 2008 has become simpler than ever. In this tutorial we will cover how to setup IIS 7.0’s new shared configuration features.
Web Deploy (Web Deployment Tool) is an IIS Extension that simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites. Administrators can use the Web Deployment Tool to synchronize both IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 and...
This video is from the MIX08 conference. http://visitmix.com Come learn about all the great new features in Microsoft Internet Information Services 7 for hosters and web farm managers including creating a highly customizable environment for building scalable and reliable ASP.NET applications. Thi...
When your web farm is up and working, you will want to update your website or add new websites to your server. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has existed since the early days of the internet for this purpose. Microsoft’s Web Deployment Tool (Web Deploy) simplifies deployment of the complex web appl...
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The Microsoft® Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management, and deployment of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers, Web applications, and Web sites. Administrators can use command-line scripting with the Web Deployment Tool to s...
In the final phase of building a web farm with IIS servers, you add a central certificate store to your farm. This store enables you to place your SSL certificates on one file server and share them with all web servers in farm. You no longer have to have copies of every certificate on every serve...
Web Deploy (msdeploy) simplifies deployment of Web applications and Web sites to IIS servers. Administrators can use Web Deploy to synchronize IIS servers or to migrate to newer versions of IIS. Web Deploy Tool also enables administrators and delegated users to use IIS Manager to deploy ASP.NET a...
In this phase of planning for a web farm, you add support for SSL-secured websites by configuring a central certificate store. Centralized SSL certificate support is a new feature on IIS 8.
n this step of building a web farm, you install and configure FTP for deploying website updates and new websites. You also install and configure Web Deploy for deploying web applications.
As part of the Microsoft Web Platform Hosting Program, Microsoft created the Shared Hosting Guidance Content Map ; it references a set of guides, step-by-step instructions, best practices, and script samples to guide in the planning, deployment, config...
The IIS 8 web server provides a secure, easy-to-manage, modular and extensible platform for reliably hosting websites, services, and applications. The web server scenarios provide end-to-end instructions on how to plan, install, and configure IIS to host various types of services and applications...
Network load balancing (NLB) in Windows Server ® 2008 provides traffic distribution using TCP/IP and can be used with the IIS shared configuration feature to create a Web farm that provides redundancy and fault-tolerance. NLB works by balancing traffic...
Web Playlists for Internet Information Services (IIS) provides the ability to control media delivery to clients and limit a client’s ability to seek or skip individual entries in the playlist. This article provides information about the settings possib...
Introduction Microsoft embraces hosting PHP applications on the Windows ® operating system, both by building enabling technologies and by working with the PHP community to ensure that popular PHP applications run performantly on the Windows operating s...
Hosting multiple Web sites or databases on a single computer is challenging. Hosters may struggle with quality of service, site density, security, and performance configuration. This article describes the Shared Hosting Configuration components that ar...
Nihuo IIS Log Analyzer is a powerful IIS log analyzer that turns your web logs into a professional sales and prospecting tool. By telling you where your web site visitors come from, which pages are most popular, and which search engine phrases brought visitors to your web site, you can make your...
IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 3 enables Web server administrators, hosting providers, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to increase Web application scalability and reliability through rule-based routing, client and host name affinity, load balancing of HTTP server requests, and distrib...
This document guides you through the process of installing an IIS web server and configuring it to serve static content. Static content is a web page (HTML) that is delivered to the user exactly as stored. By contrast, dynamic content is generated by a web application, such as an ASP.NET, classic...
This topic leads you through the steps to configure a 3-tier deployment architecture using Application Request Routing. The 3-tier deployment architecture consists of a Web tier, an application server tier, and a data tier, as shown below: Typically in...
The Internet changes the ways in which companies handle their day-to-day business and how they compete in the marketplace. With the advent of new Web technologies and an increase in the number of customers accessing resources that are available through...
This article provides a map to download locations for presentations, videos, and links to existing articles about IIS management and administration: Web farms, performance tuning, troubleshooting, remote administration, and a hosting management sample....
Every Web-Site Administrator or Web Developer has seen "404 - File not found" , "401 - Unauthorized" or "500 - Server Error" messages in his browser. This article helps you understand how and why IIS generates these errors and how they can be configure...
There are a number of ways to create and manage web sites. The following table lists the options that are currently available along with the advantages and disadvantages of each. Method of Provisioning Description Advantages Disadvantages User Interfac...
Both the IT administrator and the software developer need to consider the provisioning of Web sites in a hosting environment. The provisioning of Web sites in Internet Information Services (IIS) can be done in several ways: Through the IIS Manager user...
You can configure logging on your web server or website that records information about HTTP requests and errors. The information in your log can help you troubleshoot or optimize your website.
This document guides you through installing IIS and configuring a classic ASP website. Classic ASP is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic web applications. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM components to create interactive we...
The purpose of this article is to provide a guiding map to the various resources available for hosters who are learning about and deploying the IIS URL Rewrite module. This module is an important component of the Windows Web Platform, as illustrated in...
This topic is a guiding map for the information needed by hosters to: • Learn about the Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 feature of IIS 7 and above. • Set up ARR as referenced in the Shared Hosting Configuration article . Microsoft Application Req...
Introduction The FTP service for IIS is a key component of the Windows Web Platform. It provides a robust, secure solution for FTP in a Windows environment. Shared hosting environment administrators can use FTP for IIS to enable their customers to uplo...
Unscrupulous site owners may link to your content directly and literally steal your bandwidth. This theft is commonly called leeching, hotlinking, inline linking, or bandwidth theft, and such direct linking to your valuable image, video, binary files or other important site content is typically d...
Request-based tracing is available both in stand-alone IIS Servers and on Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) and provides a way to determine what exactly is happening with your requests and why, provided that you can reproduce the problem that you are experiencing.
This document shows you how to use common request-filter settings to improve the security of your IIS 8 web server. Request filters restrict the types of HTTP requests that IIS 8 processes. By blocking specific HTTP requests, request filters help prevent potentially harmful requests from reaching...
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) simple is a protocol for transferring files between computer systems. IIS 8 includes an FTP server that is easy to configure. The document shows how to install and configure the FTP server on an existing IIS 8 web server.
Database Manager is a new IIS module specifically designed for the management of databases located in hosting environments. That is, it is designed for environments such as the one provided by Web hosters in which the database servers are intended to b...
The following are a set of Virtual Labs to help you with your IIS training. They allow you to get hands on experience on key features, a practical guide to help you make the most of Windows Server and IIS.
NA This material is provided for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied. Overview View state is a feature in ASP.NET that allows pages to automatically preserve state without relying on server state (for example,...
As a hoster, you know that managing a shared hosting environment is about offering customers an inexpensive place to host their sites and services, while at the same time optimizing your infrastructure and overhead to remain profitable. Typical shared...
In 2001, after years of development, we released a high end authentication and password management system, iisPROTECT. This ISAPI filter based authentication system has seen extensive commercial use in thousands of sites throughout the world and continues to be enhanced.
The <configurationRedirection> element lets you to share configuration files from a centralized location to multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 server computers in a Web farm. This allows you to configure one IIS 7 server in your Web farm and to share the resulting configuration...
When using the IIS 7 Shared Configuration featured in an environment where site provisioning tasks are driven from a remote machine, you can encounter what is know as the "double-hop authentication issue". This issue will prevent you from executing pro...
This topic leads the reader through the steps to install Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2 for IIS 7 and above . Goal To successfully install Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 and above and its dependent modu...
Tools Used in this Troubleshooter: LogParser 2.2 Fiddler Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 This material is provided for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied. Overview Often, while using Forms Authentication in an...
This topic leads the reader through the steps to install Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 1 on IIS 7.0 and above. Goal To successfully install Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 and dependent modules on IIS. The Applicat...
In this phase of building your website, consider the following IIS server and website settings that support ASP.NET: Session State Settings, Pages and Controls Settings, Application Settings, .NET Compilation Settings, and .NET Globalization Settings.
IIS Failed Request Tracing Network Monitor Winhttp Tracing This material is provided for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied. Overview When working with ARR deployments, one of the errors you may see is "502.3...
In IIS 6.0, synchronizing and replicating configuration between servers was difficult because no built-in functionality existed. Although the server administrator could use the script iiscnfg.vbs to copy configuration between servers, this would still...
No. It is in the site section and only machine administrators can modify this section. You can only delegate whether to log or not. What kind of load does a custom logging module put on the server? (Disabling the kernel mode cache). It depends entirely...
The Administration Pack provides hosters and their customers with a set of IIS Manager modules that will help them to do the following: Edit server configuration settings (administrators only). Manage FastCGI settings. Manage ASP.NET authorization. Man...
Version Notes IIS 7.5 The FTP 7.5 service ships as a feature for IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. IIS 7.0 The FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 services were shipped out-of-band for IIS 7.0, which required downloading and installing the service from...
With PowerShell shipped, IIS administrators get a new tool to use. The following article concentrates on administration tasks for IIS 7.0 and above; however, PowerShell can be used for existing IIS 6.0 servers. This article focuses on the administratio...
This section of the document applies to Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 and Above. Goal To successfully cache the Application Request Routing (ARR) cache node (ie. "warm up" the cache node) proactively in anticipation for expe...
Version Notes IIS 8.0 Centralized SSL Certificate Support was introduced in IIS 8.0. IIS 7.5 Centralized SSL Certificate Support was not supported in IIS 7.5. IIS 7.0 Centralized SSL Certificate Support was not supported in IIS 7.0. Contents Problem So...
Introduction Server Core, the minimal server installation option for Windows Server ® 2008, is available in Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions. Server Core supports a subset of the server roles available in full installations of the operatin...
IIS feature delegation will interest you if you are one of the following: A server administrator and you are not the primary person providing content on your server. A developer and you want your server administrator to give you more control over IIS c...