[thelist] Microsoft Application Center

[Jon Hall]

My experience with Application Center is limited, but it seems like a very
slick package. I'd probably only reccomend it for a high end web site
though, because of the price.
You can do what you want for free though with Win2k's FRS. It handles a lot
of stuff automatically.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/samplechapters/dsdh/dsd
h_frs_tkae.asp

What it does not handle very well are conflicts with file sharing and
updates that require reboots, which Application Center can take care of
automatically, even to the point of automatically updating and then
rebooting the cluster machines on a schedule. If you can afford App Center,
and you spend a lot of time developing for a large cluster of systems (over
3 or 4 servers...), I'd say get it. It has a ton of time saving features
that don't necessarily have to do with clustering Web sites.

jon
From: "Minh Lee Goon" <v7ac at sdsumus.sdstate.edu>
To: "evolt" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: [thelist] Microsoft Application Center


> Evolt,
> We are trying to run a clustered server with IIS and coordinating that
> with our directory structure. We were told by Microsoft that we need the
> Application Center to make all that work. That was the first I've heard
> of that product. Has anyone had any personal experiences with that piece
> of software? It's quite a chunk of change so we want to make sure it'll
> work.
>
> Minh Lee Goon
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> Web Administrator
> Information Technology Services
> South Dakota State University
> Brookings, South Dakota
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