Application Center Usage - Why use App Center w/IIS 6.0 if Load Balancing is not required

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Why use App Center w/IIS 6.0 if Load Balancing is not required

MaxM

2004-05-20, 5:43 pm

We have reviewed the technet article "Configuring Application Isolation on Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0" and the information about IIS 6 ability to place each web site in an application pool and monitor web site health/a
utorecover. Based upon this information, can you please provide the benefits of Application Center if we do not have the requirement for load balancing or session state management?

George Cheng [MSFT]

2004-05-20, 5:43 pm

One of the main purposes of Application Center is replication of content
and IIS configuration settings.
Basically updating one server called the controller which then replicates
the changes to all the other machines in the cluster.

Application Center Website

http://www.microsoft.com/applicationcenter/

AppCenterFaq

http://www.appcenterfaq.com/

Application Center Resource Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/applicatio...kit/default.asp

Application Center Product Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/applicatio...doc/default.asp

Thank You

George Cheng

Microsoft Application Center & Index Server Support

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MaxM

2004-05-21, 5:55 pm

We are considering App Center for it's problem detection and auto-recovery features. It looks like IIS 6.0 can do many of the same functions. If we don't have enough web traffic to warrant NLB, are there other features of App Center we should consider tha
t we couldn't get/do with IIS 6.0?