IIS – Configuration Synchronization for Web Server Farm

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I'm wondering if there is any good/easy way to get the IIS configurations synchronized?

I'm going to be setting up a pair of IIS Servers with Network Load Balancing. I can get the data files (html, etc) synchronized all fine and well, but I'll be adding new Websites fairly often and I'd like to avoid doing the IIS configuration on multiple servers.

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Did you check the Shared Configuration feature in IIS 7? Check this out http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/264/shared-configuration/ and http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/453/configuring-a-web-farm-using-iis-shared-configuration/

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Your concerns are valid and at the end of the day you will either have to assess each reward with its inherit risks.

Shared Content is great; but as you pointed out you then have a dependency on a remote host, and clustering storage technologies isn't cheap or simple. This type of setup has its place, and given your current solution I assume you aren't looking for a 99.999% uptime solution.

Have you thought about extending your script to disable load balanced nodes (at the firewall) during times when you sync content from Web1 > Web2?

Shared Config is great though, and uses a local cache copy if your UNC share is unavailable, and is a great way of ensuring web apps have the correct configuration.

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Check: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/apachectl.html

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