Peter Schmidt

AppCenter 2000 Roadmap

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Microsoft published a Roadmap for the future of Application Center 2000 a few months back. It’s quite interesting reading for current users of AppCenter 2000. We have done a significant amount of scenario research to understand both how customers are using Application Center, and the capabilities available in other Microsoft® products and components that can deliver on the Application Center scenarios. This functionality will be delivered through a combination of the System Center family of …

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Using DFS for Content Replication

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A while back Scott Forsyth wrote this great article on how to use DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2 for content replication in a webfarm. At ORCS Web, we’ve recently started to use DFS for some of our high availability offerings that use a central NAS (Network Attached Storage) content server. We’re using DFS for handling the content server, both for replication and for automatic failover to a backup server in the event of maintenance …

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Categories IIS

SharePoint online demo

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Microsoft has published an online demo, where you can get familiar with the newest features of the latest Windows SharePoint Services version. Watch this demo to see how a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site can be your team’s communication center. See how you can use documents, lists, wikis, and blogs to track, store, and share information. Take a look at how search capabilities, multiple navigation options, and RSS make it a snap to find …

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IIS Settings Replication

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Scott Forsyth has written a great article on using the built-in IISCnfg tool for IIS Metabase replication. Microsoft provides a tool called IISCnfg for management of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Settings.  One of the features that this includes is the ability to replicate the IIS settings from one server to another.  This is useful in a webfarm environment where you require all web servers to be in sync. Read the full article on IIS …

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Categories IIS

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 available

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Together with the Office 2007 release last week, Microsoft has now made Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 available to users of Windows Server 2003. You can download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using the links below. Please note the different links for standard (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (64-bit) Language Pack for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (64-bit) For Important Installation Notes: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/download.mspx …

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