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Web PI APIs: Download Latest Web Stack Products for Any Platform
Suppose you have a central Internet faced server and multiple backend servers not connected to the Internet. To insure that your Internet faced server is always up-to-date with the latest Microsoft Web Stack products and updates, you can use Web Platform Installer. You can either use Web PI UI to set up your main server or you can automate the setup process by interfacing with Web PI APIs through Microsoft.Web.PlatformInstaller.dll. It was already shown in my previous blog post how to load and install specific products for the current machine through the APIs. In this blog, I will show how to download products for any Web PI supported platform using APIs. This solution might help you in setting up your load balancer that can download and cache products for its backend servers regardless of their OS and architecture. This solution is by no means perfect and final and is given as a sample.
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Web PI APIs: Install a product from a custom feed
In my previous blog posts, I described how to create custom feeds for Web Platform Installer to install custom products and applications. There are many uses to these custom feeds from automatically setting up your environment with custom products in addition to products already offered in WebPI to testing your applications for inclusion to Windows Web App Gallery. With the last use in mind, automating the process of testing the application can be very useful.