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Microsoft Application Center 2000 Resource Kit (Pro- Resource Kit)
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by Microsoft Corporation
Sales Rank: 1180961
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List Price: $69.99
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Paperback: 675 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press March 28, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735610231
ISBN-13: 978-0735610231
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
Product Review
Ordering the resource kits to supplement Microsoft Corporation software is pretty much standard procedure in a lot of technology departments. Microsoft Application Center Resource Kit will satisfy those buyers, as well as--more importantly, perhaps--experts from technology shops who don't buy every resource kit that comes along. This book explains the orthodox way of implementing Application Center 2000, as envisioned by the people who developed the clustering and load-balancing solution for server farms and data centers. You'll learn a lot from the printed documentation that makes up the bulk of this product, and you'll be grateful for the collection of software that appears on the companion CD-ROM, especially if you're working with something other than a straight vanilla Application Center installation.
This book's documentation runs, appropriately, more along the lines of tables and diagrams from which administrators and consultants can draw their own conclusions than toward explicit procedures, though there are some sequenced steps (especially where a resource kit utility is involved). The explanations of what talks to what when, and why, should prove helpful to people doing troubleshooting work, and Component Load Balancing (CLB) is better explained here than anywhere else. Utilities on the CD-ROM include a remote monitoring tool, a stress tester, a SQL Server event monitor, and lots of other cool toys. --David Wall
Topics covered: The inner workings of Microsoft Application Center 2000. Documentation explains cluster services, load balancing, deployment, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
Book Description
MICROSOFT APPLICATION CENTER RESOURCE KIT delivers essential reference information and tools to IT professionals who want to fully exploit the functionality of Microsoft Application Center , a deployment and management solution for Web applications built on the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. Application Center lets users easily deploy and manage Web applications across arrays of PC servers: Web "clusters" or "farms". This resource kit provides readers with information for a variety of Application Center deployment scenarios, ranging from those who want to deploy simple Webapplications to those who develop multi-tier e-commerce applications. The kit contains support and maintenance information needed to use Application Center to its fullest, and it demonstrates how to use Application Center to support line-of-business applications. A supplemental CD provides tools and utilities to aid in productsupport and deployment. Packed with use-now tools and information, this authoritative kit can help IT professionals save time, reduce ownership andsupport costs, and maximize their organization's investments in Web technologies
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is a good book, and covers many great details of how AppCenter operates. Keep in mind though that the book was published before the final product release, so many of its errors stem from design changes after this book went to press. If you are responsible for an AppCenter cluster, I highly recommend this text. Hopefully MSPress will correct its errors in a new edition. BTW, for the record, you can most definately use NLB if you have only one NIC, you just can't configure AppCenter to use NLB if you don't have two.
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