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David Selim

2005-10-24, 10:32 am

I want/need to move the BTS 2004 ESSO Master Secret Server from a standalone
box to a Windows Server cluster and need to know the best way to do this.

The current environment consists of two physical servers running BizTalk
2004 with a third physical standalone server acting as the ESSO Master Secret
Server. I'm going to replace the standalone MSS with a new Windows
Active/Passive Cluster running on entirely new hardware.

Based on what information I've been able to gather on how to do this, these
are my plans:

1. Install the cluster hardware and OS's.
2. Install and configure Enterprise Single Sign-on on the first node of the
cluster, joining this server to the existing ESSO infrastructure.
3. Using the instructions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pl_sso_yonq.asp move the Master Secret Server roll to this new server.
4. Shutdown the old MSS
5. Configure the MSS cluster using the instructions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pl_sso_aumt.asp

Am I missing anything?
Is there any reason this process will not work?
Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!
Bill Chesnut \(BizTalk MVP\)

2005-10-24, 10:32 am

David,

This KB article has lots of helpful info on clustering the ESSO:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=...1444&sid=global

Also, this method actually does work, the help files are missing some steps.

--
Bill Chesnut
BizTalk MVP
Melbourne, Australia

"David Selim" <DavidSelim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F3F59567-FEC8-42E6-87D6-0A934D1865C9@microsoft.com...
>I want/need to move the BTS 2004 ESSO Master Secret Server from a
>standalone
> box to a Windows Server cluster and need to know the best way to do this.
>
> The current environment consists of two physical servers running BizTalk
> 2004 with a third physical standalone server acting as the ESSO Master
> Secret
> Server. I'm going to replace the standalone MSS with a new Windows
> Active/Passive Cluster running on entirely new hardware.
>
> Based on what information I've been able to gather on how to do this,
> these
> are my plans:
>
> 1. Install the cluster hardware and OS's.
> 2. Install and configure Enterprise Single Sign-on on the first node of
> the
> cluster, joining this server to the existing ESSO infrastructure.
> 3. Using the instructions
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pl_sso_yonq.asp
> move the Master Secret Server roll to this new server.
> 4. Shutdown the old MSS
> 5. Configure the MSS cluster using the instructions
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pl_sso_aumt.asp
>
> Am I missing anything?
> Is there any reason this process will not work?
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks!



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