Windows Server AppFabric provides a simplified management experience for working with WCF and WF services. Whether you are a developer or IT Pro, you stand to benefit from the varied management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric offers.
Most of the recipes in this book showcase the UI-based management techniques, as those are most common, but Windows Server AppFabric also offers the ability to manage applications using PowerShell cmdlets, both interactively and in an automated, scripted manner.
In this recipe, we'll prepare our workstation to use the ApplicationServer Powershell module, which contains a number of control and instance cmdlets that allow you to manage applications and services deployed to Windows Server AppFabric.
From there, we'll explore some common commands for obtaining configuration information at the application and service level, configuring an application to take advantage of the Auto-Start feature, reviewing...