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IIS7 and Failover Clustering
We recently published an article on how to enable failover clustering for IIS7 and Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). MSCS provides failover and increased availability of applications by failing over to a second machine that is on stand-by or by just taking the sick machine out of the network so that no requests are routed to it anymore.
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Kerberos Authentication Issues
We ran into some problems with Kerberos authentication lately and this forced me to unearth the knowledge I once had about Kerberos.
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Now Available: The IIS 7.5 Application Warm-Up Module
IIS is a demand-driven web server, i.e. IIS does things only when asked for. For example: an IIS worker process spawns up only when requests arrive for the sites that are hosted in this worker process. Without requests there isn't a worker process. This is great from a resource consumption point of view. Worker processes which don't run do not consume resources, memory in particular.