There are two types of affinity in ARR; per client affinity and per host name affinity. For per client affinity, ARR relies on a cookie. The cookie stores the hashed value (what is entered as the server address when defining the server farm). Because of this design, there is no information to share between...

tommy9un IIS (even with ARR in IIS7) is not designed to be on the edge. It typically sits behind a firewall, such as ISA. So your example is correct in that you will have ISA -> IIS (as ARR) -> IIS (as application server) -> DB. I can also tell you that there is no out-of-box support for what...

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...

Some of you have asked me about the dependency between ARR and URL Rewrite. Strictly speaking, there is no hard dependency between ARR and URL Rewrite modules. A more accurate way to describe the relationship between ARR and URL Rewrite is that ARR depends on another module to determine which server...