.NET Application Center Server for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Managing Microsoft's Software Servers for Large Enterprises"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

.NET Application Center Server is Microsoft's deployment and management tool for Web applications built on the Microsoft Windows® 2000 operating system. .NET Application Center Server makes managing groups of servers a simple job.

.NET Application Center Server is being developed to utilize Microsoft's .NET initiative. It enables developers and webmasters to deploy applications quickly and easily. To control the costs to the businesses operating it, it can be used with a minimum of required in-depth knowledge.

.NET Application Center Server reduces the complexity of managing various business applications.

Administrators can quickly construct logical groupings of applications and easily manage them throughout the cluster, reducing complexity.

.NET Application Center Server manages many servers as one. When changes must be made to a server, it can automatically apply them to the other servers in the cluster.

.NET Application Center Server simplifies the development of applications

And the task of taking applications through the development cycle. (Development to testing to production). By automating deployment of applications from one server to another, NET Application Center Server also enables software scaling by using an idea called clustering.

A group of servers used as a single, unified resource. You can handle increases and decreases in application capacity requirements by easily adding or removing servers.

.NET Application Center Server is designed so that if any server is brought down, the application is still available to the users. So it allows your website to have software and hardware failures without disrupting application service. An important security feature.

.NET Application Center Server actively monitors the performance and health of your hardware and software, and the cluster and its servers. It has features that enable viewing of performance and event-log data for one server or the entire cluster. Administrators can monitor all activity remotely using a browser-based console.

The applications can consist of HTML and ASP files, COM+ components, Windows registry settings, and Internet Information Services (IIS) settings. Each server in the cluster hosts a copy of the application, which it keeps synchronized.

.NET Application Center Server is deployed on each server in a cluster. Web browsers see the cluster as a very large and very reliable Web server.

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