Professional Application Center 2000

by Alex Homer, Matt Odhner, David Sussman

Microsoft Application Center 2000 is a suite of tools designed to make it easy to build, manage, and monitor multiple-server web sites and web application platforms. Its main features simple-to-implement scalability, automated high availability, automatic synchronization of content and configuration, simple deployment of COM+ applications, and single-point monitoring of individual machines and the cluster overall. This book shows how you can use Application Center to make your web sites more scalable, more robust, more reliable, and easier to maintain. It looks at the configuration and administration options you need get started, and gives examples of how to build pages, components, and whole applications that take advantage of Application Center's capabilities. Also discussed are issues such as testing your sites and applications, and measuring the loads that they can support.

800 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Alex Homer is a technical writer assigned to the Microsoft patterns & practices division in Redmond. Following a career within and outside of the IT world, including an eclectic range of jobs from tractor driver to double-glazing salesman, he spent many years as a software and training specialist before tiring of the conference circuit and joining Microsoft. However, he has so far resisted the dubious attractions of Seattle weather in favor of working from home in the idyllic rural surroundings of the Derbyshire Dales in the heart of England. Now he spends his days knee-deep in design patterns and architectural literature; writing books, documentation, sample code, and producing technical guidance in its myriad other forms - most of which is helpfully co-authored by two over-inquisitive cats.