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...

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'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...

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...

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.....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...