Hello -
We have a situation where we interact with Application Center through use of
the Command Line tool (ac.exe).  We have a process setup to handle incoming
deployment requests from developers trying to get their compiled and
installed application promoted from a Build to Development to QA to
Production type migration path.

We never know which Application Center packages will be requested for
promotion at any given time.  When I did my initial load testing, I was very
disappointed in finding that, atleast in our case, Application Center via
the command line couldn't handle more than one or two deployment requests at
a time.  My goal would be to be able to issue multiple "ac /deploy"
processes and have them execute asynchronously.  Is there a different way to
handle requests like this?  Has anyone else run into a similar issue?

Thanks.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

You should not have more than one deployment job going at one time,
especially if there is potential for the same files to be included in more
than one replication as you may experience replication errors due to file
handles, and the timing of AC2K events.




Does this answer your question?  Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroups!

Andrés Naranjo [MSFT]
Microsoft DS Communities Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Please reply to newsgroups only.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Not really.
We have individual packages setup for separate applications, so there is
slim to no possibility that the same files would be included in multiple
packages.

We have many developers that could potentially request a deployment at any
given time.  Right now the requests get queued up and processed one at a
time.  I would have liked App Center to be a little more scalable in that
repect.  There is a possibility of a significant wait time for the
deployment of applications that are queued.  I'm just trying to confirm that
I'm using Application Center's deployment to the best of its abilities.  Do
you have any other suggestions for  the some sort of multi-threaded
deployment strategy?

Thanks.


"Andrés Naranjo[MSFT]" <andresnaOnline@online.microsoft.com.no.spam> wro
te
in message news:d5DfrIMAEHA.2300@cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl...
> You should not have more than one deployment job going at one time,
> especially if there is potential for the same files to be included in more
> than one replication as you may experience replication errors due to file
> handles, and the timing of AC2K events.
>
>
>
>
> Does this answer your question?  Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroups!
>
> Andrés Naranjo [MSFT]
> Microsoft DS Communities Team
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> Please reply to newsgroups only.
>

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Eric,

In a couple of weeks in Las Vegas, at one of our trade shows, a set of APIs
will be unveiled called the ASAI APIs.  with these APIs you MAY (I stress
MAY) allow you to conduct multiple deployments in a multi-threaded manner.
I would recommend that you open a support incident with Microsoft Product
Support and ask about them if you need them before then.

I don't know for a fact that the APIs will help, but they may allow you to
do this.


Does this answer your question?  Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroups!

Andrés Naranjo [MSFT]
Microsoft DS Communities Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Please reply to newsgroups only.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

That helps a little.
Are these actually APIs into Application Center 2000 itself?
Will they be supported by Microsoft?
Which trade show are you talking about?  We've got some pretty decent
contacts at Microsoft, so I'll go through them to possibly get it early.

We've been waiting and hoping for some APIs into App Center.

Thanks for the info.
Eric

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Yes, they are actual APIs to program against Application Center.

The conference is :
http://www.microsoft.com/management/training/mms.mspx

For the support guidelines, I believe they will be supported, but I need to
find out for sure. Let me find out and I will post back.



Does this answer your question?  Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroups!

Andrés Naranjo [MSFT]
Microsoft DS Communities Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Please reply to newsgroups only.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

I just found out that the APIs will be considered like a Resource Kit and
therefore tere will be no QFE (hotfix) support for them.  The only fully
supported way to manipulate application center is ac.exe, however, ac.exe
uses ASAI, which means that as long as you are using ASAI to perform
actions that AC.exe can perform, you will most likely not run into trouble.

You can get the white paper describing ASAI by opening a support incident
with Microsoft Product Support now.





Does this answer your question?  Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroups!

Andrés Naranjo [MSFT]
Microsoft DS Communities Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Please reply to newsgroups only.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]