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...

I'm trying to use shared configuration with a distributed NAS (ISILON). I created a share on the NAS, and I was able to initiate shared configuration to the device, and it applied without incident. However, the server immediately after became unable to connect to either of the configuration files...

Hello, I have two servers setup with shared configuration in IIS 7. I changed the user name for the shared config on Server1 to a service account with full admin rights locally. Then I went to Server2 and when try to open IIS it would not open the shared config file. obviously because of user name change...

Thanks for the response Anil. I don't want to read too much into your reply but I believe your initial suggestion is correct in this case. As I have Sharepoint, Exchange, TSWebApp...etc installed on the primary server but not on the secondary server. I simply wanted to show shared configuration on...

Yea, I've seen this post and we have started the application pools repeatedly everytime this error occurs. However, as soon as we browse the site again it kills the application pool again and deliveres the same HTTP 503 - Service Unavailable. We were convinced that when we first saw this error message...

This is expected behavior, with Shared Configuration turned on, installing or uninstalling components becomes extremely problematic. (Consider having 2 machines sharing configuration, on one machine you add a component with config/schema data, then the other machine will start to behave badly since it...

Hello, I have 2 servers running 2008 RC0. The primary server has quite a load of software installed including Exchange 2007 while the secondary server is practically fresh. I have a very very simple site I created on the primary server and then setup shared configuration. I am able to get the site to...

I feel like I'm missing something easy. How does one accomplish binding unique IPs per server to a single web site ID in a Shared Configuration setup? I've got Shared Configuration set up and working for a server, but the IP bindings are in the shared file. How do I abstract the IP data from...