Monday, June 04, 2007
IIS 7 deployments
If you are running a web farm with IIS 7 and have the same modules installed on each server, you can store your content and configuration in a UNC share. What is even cooler is that you can stage configuration and content on the web servers and then flip over, then flip back if things don’t go so well. Search for the Staged Deployment feature in IIS 7. For more information http://www.iis.net
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Just being able to easily manage content from a UNC share is huge. I've always had to depend on DFS in the past and it seemed to be a big pain to set up and more importantly required domain membership.
Good point, they recommend that you setup a file share and then turn on Offline File Replication, so even if the remote UNC goes down you have the site locally.
You could get into some wacky deployment scenarios if you wanted to think outside of the box on this one....
I wonder how Sitecore will work with this idea?
It's hard to say cause I really don't know what it's doing under the covers. I know it is doing some writing to those files because it blows chow if the permissions are set wrong. Is it using MapPath? No idea since we don't have the source and haven't tried to disassemble it. Have to have a farm before it matters though I guess :).
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