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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

Running caching services using Domain accounts


A caching service account is used for the Caching Service Configuration Provider. The caching service account must be a member of Administrators Groups and must have administrative access over caching configuration database. Windows Server AppFabric v1.0 used NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE as a default and did not allow changing this account for Domain environments.

Note

For a Workgroup environment, Windows Server AppFabric v1.0 allowed changing the account as long as the all participating machines in the cluster had the same user/password combination (with administrative privileges) defined.

In Windows Server AppFabric v1.0 we could not change the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. This led to scenarios where domain level security principles could not be applied, and created security issues for IT Administrators.

The good news is that with AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server, we can now use the Domain accounts to run caching services.

In this recipe, we...