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• 07-01-2009, 11:17 AM

  anurag.sable Joined on 07-01-2009, 3:04 PM Posts 5

  IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact Hi, Our company set up a aplication which uses IIS 6.0.The Exact scenario is like this :- AppServer is having IIS Installed. The Virtual directory on the application server is pointing to resources which is kept on Cluster Drive on Remote Network Computer. Now my question is, Is it really needed to do this? Because I can see there is no performance improvement and there is lot of complications in this configuration. Microsoft recommend not to put IIS resources on share drives. Please tell me what may be the issues with this.

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• 07-01-2009, 11:54 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,222

  Re: IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact anurag.sable: Is it really needed to do this? Only you can answer that.  I would not do this for performance reasons, but rather to have high availablility of the content, and even then it's not that great a solution because nothing is making the IIS box redundant, just its content files. anurag.sable: Microsoft recommend not to put IIS resources on share drives. Please tell me what may be the issues with this. Lots of great info here ... http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/archive/2009/04/28/deploying-and-configuring-internet-information-services-iis-6-0-with-remotely-stored-content-on-unc-servers-and-nas-devices.aspx Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 07-02-2009, 2:23 AM

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  anurag.sable Joined on 07-01-2009, 3:04 PM Posts 5	Re: IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact Microsoft recommend not to put IIS resources on share drives. Please tell me what may be the issues with this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257174. Microsoft says its not viable option.  Have a look into the link.

• 07-02-2009, 6:36 AM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM UK Posts 1,245

  Re: IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact anurag.sable: Microsoft says its not viable option. No they don't. If you read that article more carefully you will see that it says using mapped drives is not a viable option and that you should always use a UNC path instead. I manage a great many high volume web sites whose content is all stored on a remote NAS share, so I can tell you that using remote content does work with IIS. Regards, Paul Lynch | www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 07-02-2009, 9:05 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,222	Re: IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact What Paul said!  : ) Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 07-02-2009, 9:56 AM

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  anurag.sable Joined on 07-01-2009, 3:04 PM Posts 5	Re: IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact I agree to Paul and you also. But somebody is saying it will improve the performance of website. I am not saying it can't be done. I done so many time. I am saying it will not improve performance. And It can't be my High Availibilit Enviornment.

• 07-02-2009, 10:01 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,222	Re: IIS Configuration. Please Help Reply Contact anurag.sable: somebody is saying it will improve the performance of website. So then ask that person for documentation of that "fact" ... Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/