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 Learning Objectives
• Plan for, install, and use application servers
• Plan for application deployment
• Plan how to make applications available remotely
• Configure offline data access
• Understand System Center Configuration Manager

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 Learning Objectives (cont’d.)
• Understand Windows Server Update Services
• Install and use Windows System Resource Manager
• Plan for a Network Load Balancing cluster

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 Understanding the Application Server
Role
• Application server role
– For organizations that use customized software built
from Microsoft application development and Web
products
• Line-of-business (LOB) applications
– Customized software
– Shape specialized business strategy to achieve a
unique market niche or soar ahead of the competition

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 Understanding the Application Server
Role (cont’d.)
• Server-based applications
– Software applications run from a server by remote
network clients or by other software
• Client/server applications
– Some processing may occur on a client and some on
the server
– Or processing may be split between different
applications on the same server
– Or among different servers

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 Understanding the Application Server
Role (cont’d.)
• Application Server Foundation (ASF)
– Offers development tools, including:
• Microsoft .NET Framework with Windows
Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET
• COM+
• Internet Information Services (IIS)
• NET.TCP Port Sharing
• Distributed transaction support
• Message Queuing
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 Microsoft .NET Framework
• Provides a consistent environment to develop and
run applications
• Elements
– Common language runtime (CLR)
– Class library (including application programming
interfaces (APIs))

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 Microsoft .NET Framework (cont’d.)
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
– Unites several Web-based, transaction, and message
queue communications into a common programming
model
– Enables applications to communicate with one
another efficiently
– Enables loose coupling

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 Microsoft .NET Framework (cont’d.)
• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
– Development environment and runtime engine
– Helps programmers build applications that follow the
actual program or human workflow process
– Program mirrors each step in a process

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 Figure 12-1 Workflow of
a hiring process
Courtesy Course
Technology/Cengage Learning

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 Microsoft .NET Framework (cont’d.)
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
– Framework in which to develop user interfaces in a
program
– Uses the Extensible Application Markup Language
(XAML)

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 ASP.NET
• Active Server Pages.NET (ASP.NET)
• Used to create Web-based applications
• Free download from Microsoft
• Development environment built on CLR
• Enables a Web-based server to run scripts
• Program that operates through IIS
• Application server role contains services that assist
ASP.NET

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 COM+
• Older framework for running applications prior
to .NET Framework.
• Component Object Model (COM)
– Standards for building software from individual objects
or components
• COM+
– Enhancement to COM
– Enables features such as publishing application
services and the ability to subscribe to these services
– Provides for load balancing of client requests for
applications across multiple servers
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 Internet Information Services (IIS)
• Advantages for using the application server role with
IIS
– Offer Web sites created using Microsoft Web
development tools
– Web applications can be built using the capabilities of
WCF, WF, and WPF
– Web applications can take advantage of ASP.NET
capabilities

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 Net.TCP Port Sharing
• Permits several network applications to share
incoming communications via one TCP port
• Ports
– Also called sockets
– Used for application communication
• “Well-known” ports
– Numbered 0 through 1023
• Port sharing
– Shared by several network applications, while
keeping the number of open ports to a minimum
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 Distributed Transaction Support
• Updates to databases performed in an “all-or-none”
fashion
– Either all of the transactions are posted or none of
them are posted
– Vital protection to ensure that databases cannot get
out of synchronization

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 Windows Process Activation Service
• Enables IIS applications built using WCF to use IIS
features that do not require message-derived
activation via HTTP
• IIS application pools
– Group similar Web applications into pools or groups
for management
• World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC)
– Requires WAS

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 Message Queuing
• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
– Installed with the application server role
– Ability for applications to use messaging and
message queuing services between applications
• Messages
– Placed in message queues
– Applications retrieve messages from the appropriate
queues

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 Message Queuing (cont’d.)
• Activity 12-1: Installing the Application Server Role
– Objective: Learn how to install an application server

Figure 12-2 Add Roles Wizard

Courtesy Course Technology/Cengage Learning

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 Application Deployment Planning
• When application offered to the user
– Plan what is necessary to provide that application
within the user environment
• Understand how clients will access the application

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 Server-Based Application Planning
• Plan on having enough server resources
– CPU, memory, and disk space
• Consider how clients will access the server
– Terminal Services or VPN
– Local network or Internet
• Consider reliability and bandwidth sufficient for the
number of users
• Consider user training

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 Distributed Computing Planning
• Distributed computing
– Involves many of the same issues as server-based
computing
– Take into account hardware on all systems involved
and the network connections between hardware
• Database server
– May be slow when multiple users do resource-intense
database queries
– Provide regular database maintenance

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 Client-Based Application Planning
• Client-based applications
– Likely to be already installed on the client’s computer
– Or download from a server through the network
• User training just as important as for server-based
applications
• Licensing
– Ensure there are enough licenses
• Updates
– Plan how to perform regular application updates

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 Web-Based Application Planning
• Consider using application pools to make
applications more reliable
• Modes
– Integrated mode
– Classic mode

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 Using Applications Remotely
• Make applications available to remote users
– Microsoft Application Virtualization Management
– Terminal Services RemoteApp

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 Microsoft Application Virtualization
Management
• Enables client to run an application from a server
– As though the application is actually installed on client
– Runs in a virtual partitioned space on the client
computer
– Streamed from a server

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 Microsoft Application Virtualization
Management (cont’d.)
• Advantages:
– Applications are installed only on the virtual
application server
– Applications can be managed centrally through an
App-V management console
– Applications can be used in a standard way to
achieve standard outcomes and to standardize client
support
– Application updates are made on the virtual
application server

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 Microsoft Application Virtualization
Management (cont’d.)
• Advantages (cont’d.)
– One client can run the same application multiple times
simultaneously
– Applications that cannot be run using Terminal
Services can generally be run as virtual applications
– Clients can run two or more different applications that
would normally conflict with one another

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 Microsoft Application Virtualization
Management (cont’d.)
• Principal components:
– Microsoft Application Virtualization Management
Server or App-V server
– Microsoft Application Virtualization Client or App-V
client software installed on each client computer
– Microsoft Application Virtualization Management
Console or App-V management console

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 Microsoft Application Virtualization
Management (cont’d.)
• Compatible with:
– Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher
– Windows Vista
– Windows 7
– Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2
– Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

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 Terminal Services RemoteApp
• Consider as you are planning application
deployment
• Used on the client without loading the remote
desktop normally required for Terminal Services
• Enables user to run a program on a terminal server
– Client experiences this as just another program
running on her computer

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 Terminal Services RemoteApp (cont’d.)
• Benefits of using TS RemoteApp
– No separate software to purchase
– Applications are installed on the terminal server and
not on the client
– Application updates are made on the terminal
– Application is run on the terminal server
• .rdp files can be made available to clients through a
server’s shared folder

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 Terminal Services RemoteApp (cont’d.)
• Limitations to using TS RemoteApp
– Cannot run different versions of the same application
simultaneously on a client
– Host the application on a single terminal server
• Cannot use multiple terminal servers that are
administered by TS Session Broker

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 Configuring Offline Data Capabilities
• Take advantage of offline capabilities
– Folder cached in client’s computer storage
– Can be accessed even when network is down
• As soon as client is connected to network
– Client files synchronized with those on server
• Shared files
– Cached in the client’s disk storage each time the
client logs off or shuts down the computer

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 Configuring Offline Data Capabilities
(cont’d.)
• Activity 12-2: Configuring Offline Access Using the
Share and Storage Management Tool
– Objective: Learn to use the Share and Storage
Management tool to configure offline access for
shared folders

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 Using System Center Configuration
Manager
• Comprehensive applications and operating systems
management environment
• Intended for large organizations
• Capabilities:
– Deployment of operating systems on a network
– Deployment of applications on a network
– Inventory of hardware and software resources on a
network
– Management of how computers are configured

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 Using System Center Configuration
Manager (cont’d.)
• Capabilities (cont’d.)
– Management of operating system and application
software updates
– Assessment of software use frequency
– Remote control for diagnosing problems on servers
and clients

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 Using System Center Configuration
Manager (cont’d.)
• Microsoft SQL Server must be installed
– Administers applications through using an SQL
Server database
• Sites
– Primary and secondary
– Other types of sites can be established

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 Table 12-1 Microsoft
System Center
Configuration Manager
capabilities

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 Windows Server Update Services
• Package of services you can obtain from Microsoft
• Enables Windows Server 2008 to obtain the latest
Microsoft product updates
– Operating system updates and patches
– Security patches
– Updates and security patches for Microsoft
applications
– Service packs

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 Windows Server Update Services
(cont’d.)
• Upstream WSUS server
– Obtains the updates and service packs from Microsoft
– Supplies them to other WSUS servers for distribution
to clients
– Connects to the Microsoft Update Web site

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 Windows Server Update Services
(cont’d.)
• Windows Server 2008 server that will host WSUS
requires
– IIS 7.0 or above
– Windows Authentication
– ASP.NET
– .NET Framework 2.0 or above
– Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 or
higher
– Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 1 (or
above)

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 Figure 12-7 Using an upstream WSUS server
Courtesy Course Technology/Cengage Learning

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 Windows System Resource Manager
• Install through Server Manager
• Manage how processor and memory resources are
used in Windows Server 2008
• Establish resource policies
– Resources can be allocated for different types of
application environments
• Does not attempt to manage processor resources
until processor load is 70 percent or higher

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 Windows System Resource Manager
(cont’d.)
• Resource policies that come packaged with WSRM
– Equal per user
– Equal per session
– Equal per process
– Equal per IIS application pool
• Activity 12-3: Installing the WSRM Feature
– Objective: Install the WSRM feature

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 Windows System Resource Manager
(cont’d.)

Figure 12-8 Add Features Wizard

Courtesy Course Technology/Cengage Learning

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 Windows System Resource Manager
(cont’d.)
• Activity 12-4: Using WSRM
– Objective: Use WSRM to configure resources

Figure 12-9 Connect to computer box

Courtesy Course Technology/Cengage Learning

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 Figure 12-10 Selecting Resource Allocation Policies
Courtesy Course Technology/Cengage Learning

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 Using a Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Cluster
• Two or more computers seen by users as single
computer
• Each computer in the cluster
– Runs the same application(s)
– Uses the same virtual network adapter
– Constantly ensures the other computers in the cluster
are live
• Installed through Server Manager
• Microsoft considers an NLB cluster to be a better
solution to load balancing than DNS round robin
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 Summary
• Application server role
– Based on the Application Server Foundation
– Includes components such as Microsoft .NET
Framework, ASP.NET, COM+, IIS, NET.TCP Port
Sharing, distributed transaction support, and Message
Queuing
– Contains built-in components: Windows
Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow
Foundation, and Windows Presentation Foundation

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 Summary (cont’d.)
• Application deployment planning includes:
– Server-based application planning
– Distributed computing planning
– Client-based application planning
– Web-based application planning
• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
– Coordinate deployment of applications, operating
systems, and software updates
– Windows Server Update Services also coordinates
updates

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 Summary (cont’d.)
• Windows System Resource Manager
– Optimize server resource use
• Network Load Balancing cluster
– Distribute the load across servers

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