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Asked: 2012-03-19 15:24:00 +0800 CST

Web Farm Framework - Missing IIS features

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I'm trying to install a web farm using Microsoft's Web Farm Framework 2.2. The server is Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5.

I followed a tutorial. Installed WFF from Web Platform Installer. However, I'm missing some key features in the "Server Farm" panel in IIS.

This is how my setup looks like (image)

This is how my setup looks like

However, just like in the tutorial,

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I want it like this

How can I enable ALL the things, like Load Balancer, Health Test, Server Affinity etc? Thanks. The tutorial I used was this: weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/08/introducing-the-microsoft-web-farm-framework.aspx

load-balancing iis web-farm

2 Answers

  1. That's Application Request Routing. Install it as well.

    As a note, you might need to nuke your farm configuration if there are problems layering it atop the existing installation (which I assume is on a controller).

    App Request Routing is the proxying module that integrates with Web Farm Framework, which is the Server Farming and app and platform provisioning module (as of WFF 2.0; WFF 1.0 was literally just "these servers exist in a farm, are online/offline, and here are their IPs").

    ARR installs WFF 1.0 if you just install it; WFF doesn't install ARR if you install it, but ARR integrates nicely on a WFF Controller.

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  2. Use Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> IIS Manager, not Server Manager.

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