19.2. Building the web farm

If you tried the lab for chapter 14, creating and configuring the web farm is almost identical to the tasks you performed in that lab. In this section I’ll show you some minor differences to the process.

19.2.1. Creating the web farm on the control server

After all the chapters you and I have been through together in this book, I’m sure you know the answer to this question: what tools do I need to create and manage a web farm? Answer: a GUI tool and PowerShell.

I applaud the IIS team at Microsoft for continuing to add support for management through PowerShell. In the case of WFF, you may not need to script deployments and provisioning because WFF handles that for you. But if you’re someone who needs to automate processes ...

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