Search results matching tag 'Shared Configuration'

Shared config "Configuration Performance" speed

Dominic D — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:31:04 GMT

We have an IIS7.5 farm using shared config which is stored on a central file server (A NAS appliance that i believe runs Samba under the hood).

This started out pretty small 2 servers, less than 10% cpu, and just 1 site. Over time, we've migrated more and more apps to this newer farm from our IIS6 installation. As it stands now, there are 6 servers, averaging around 60% cpu, and around 20 business apps.

We've been extremely happy with both IIS7.5 and shared config. A lot more consistency across the farm, and lower provisioning time. One thing I've started to notice is configuration changes now take significantly longer (up to 1 minute) whereas before they were almost instantaneous. This includes anything from creating a new site, to a new WP, to modifying authentication settings on a site. It's not really a problem, its still infinitely faster and better than making individual changes on all nodes. It's more my curiosity. Pretty much all of my variables changed at the same time, so I really don't know whether its the # of apps, # of servers, or cpu load thats slowed this down.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

offline files 2008 r2 - sync center only appears for person that setup offline files

Dominic D — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:20:27 GMT

We've recently configured offline file support for our shared config repository, following the guide posted at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/212/offline-files-for-shared-configuration/

On the 4 server farm, i setup two servers and another engineer setup the other two. We just recently noticed that I can't see sync center in the tray, and the share location doesn't have the Available Offline check next to it on the servers the other engineer built. The reverse is true for him, he doesn't see sync center in the tray or the offline check on the servers I built.

It seems like sync center is per user. If so, is it even working for the service accounts that the shares are being mapped to?

Do we need to login as the UNC mapping service account to configure offline files?

Thanks!

Port requirements when implementing shared configuration

ukinet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:29:38 GMT

I'm interested in knowing what the port requirements are when implementing shared configuration. Especially regarding the web content being located on a network share location or on another server.

Does this require port 445, file sharing port opened to permit the WFE to reach the files in this other location?

I am hoping not due to security issues around 445/file sharing.

Rewrite module disappears when Shared Configuration is enabled.

fhsdavid — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:42:33 GMT

Hello..

I'm hosting our sites on a small web farm and use the Shared Configuration feature to sych up IIS. We have a hardware load balancer where an SSL certificate is installed. We have an issue where the default 302 redirect functionality is redirecting to http (instead of https) if the url does not end in a slash. For example:

https://www.thedomain.com/Demo1 is getting redirected to http://www.thedomain.com/demo1/

I can solve this issue using the URL Rewrite Module but I cannot get it installed and have shared hosting enabled at the same time. I disabled shared hosting to install the module, and I've installed it on all the web servers. But as soon as I re-enable shared hosting the module disappears from IIS. Additionally, any site that has had a rule written for it (written while shared config was disabled) now throws a 505.19 Internal Server Error saying it doesn't recognize the elements that were added to the web config.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Shared configuration and offline files

ron.sellers@dcnr.alabama.gov — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:10:23 GMT

I enabled shared configuration for 2 Windows Server 2008 64 bit machines. That appears to work OK.

I then tried to implement offline files to prevent a loss of service whn the common share goes off line. I did make the registry change to make the cache read-only and I loaded the desktop experience...the offline files appear to be operational.

However, when I try to restart the server I get Event ID 9000 (The Application Host Helper Service encountered an error while reading the data for SID mapping. Please ensure that the application pool name data is correct in the configuration file.) and the W3SVC does not start.

I can manually start the W3SVC and everything works OK.

When I remove the configuration share from the offline files, everything starts working again.

Any suggestions will be appreciated

CSR and Cert installation via C#

amintaheri — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:13:12 GMT

Hello,

I am using IIS7 on windows 2008 and need to programatically generate CSRs and install certificates for customers.

I cant seem to find any documentation on this, and was wondering if some one could point me in the right direction.

On a side note, I am planning to use this on a shared configuration behind a load balancer (BigIP) and am not clear if this will work - does the new IIS bind the port and SSL to host headers, or is the dedicated IP still required ? If the IP is required, how will IIS know which IP to use on the other boxes in the shared configuration - does it need to have a different dedicated IP on each of the shared configuratino boxes ?

Thank you in advance for all the assistance.

Shared Configuration - forgot encryption key to add additional server

amtim — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:37:34 GMT

I set up two machines many months back with shared configuration. One of the servers was acting up, so I did a fresh build. Unfortunately I waited too long to reconfigure the 2nd box and forgot the encryption key for the shared configuration. (idiot me did not document the password anywhere that I can remember)

Server 1 is still running online with about 50 sites. I don't want to reconfigure IIS if I don't have to. Does anyone know if there is a good way that I can reset the encryption key, by using what I have available now?

Thanks,

Rob

(shared configuration) offline folders problem

diezg — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:34:02 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to configure offline folders for shared configuration on a Windows 2008 server and I'm having a problem.

I have enabled offline folders as described in the article http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/212/offline-files-for-shared-configuration/

But when I right-click on the network folder that I want to make available offline and check the option "Always available offline" nothing happens (the offline symbol does not appear in the folder). When I right-click again in the folder the option is not checked.

Anyone knows what I'm missing?

Thanks!

How to reset shared configuration?

xml.net — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:09:26 GMT

IIS 7 was configured in test environment using a shared configuration file. It was imported from a UNC location. The server was moved to production and now won't start because it cannot access the UNC that doesn't exist in production.

How can I reset the shared configuration in this situation?

Neither IIS admin nor WWW pub services will start, so I can't restore a backup using appcmd.exe.

Changing redirection.config under system32/inetsvc/config allowed both services to start, but the admin snap-in won't function (error msg that it cannot access the same UNC path).

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Opinion: this feature is half-baked and plain dangerous.

If you have a web farm configured from a single source file and that file becomes unvailable your servers will die one by one as they try to read the remote config file. It should make a local copy and work off that if the UNC is not available.

Re: ARR+shared configuration

wonyoo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:16:51 GMT

Looooooka

Sorry, it's taken so long to follow up on this. Were you able to sort out what the problems were?

In my testing, I use shared configuration and it's been working pretty well. As you had indicated, it is such a time saver since you only need to make the changes once. Also, adding additional web servers is a simple 3 step process:

Provision the new web server.
Configure the server to use the shared config.
Add the new server to the server group in ARR.

Let me know if you are still experiencing problems.