Microsoft Application Center 2000 is a suite of tools designed to make it easy to build, manage, and monitor multiple-server web sites and web application platforms. Its main features include: simple-to-implement scalability, automated high availability, automatic synchronization of content and configuration, simple deployment of COM+ applications, and single-point monitoring of individual machines and the cluster overall.
This book shows how you can use Application Center to make your web sites more scalable, more robust, more reliable, and easier to maintain. It looks at the configuration and administration options you need get started, and gives examples of how to build pages, components, and whole applications that take advantage of Application Center's capabilities. Also discussed are issues such as testing your sites and applications, and measuring the loads that they can support.
