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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Overview of this book

Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating an initial base configuration


The first thing you want to do when preparing a Windows Server AppFabric environment for scale-out is to prepare a fully functional base installation.

The base installation is simple, but will vary slightly from the standalone design covered in Chapter 1, Installing Windows Server AppFabric because we'll need to separate the application server—which will handle hosting- and the database server which will provide persistence and monitoring support. In addition to provisioning each of these servers with the requisite Windows Server AppFabric components, we will also want to ensure that the application layer can talk to the monitoring and persistence stores that will reside on separate servers.

In addition, the security model will also vary from what you might be accustomed to because we'll want to shift from a purely local security model to a domain model since among other things, more than one application server will be communicating with the SQL Server...