Describes how to design and build an affordable, highly scalable server farm with as few servers as possible. By scaling vertically, horizontally, and consolidating operations with similar workload factors on dedicated servers, you can efficiently scale your server farm with the least number of servers.
Learn how to detect bottlenecks by running calibration tests, testing system capacity, updating user profiles, and monitoring key performance counters.
Most problems with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Service occur when appropriate hot fixes are not applied or when the components are installed in the wrong order. In addition, poor performance or failure can be caused by incorrect configuration of the underlying systems (adding invalid Service Packs or configuring the underlying SQL database incorrectly). This troubleshooting guide can help you avoid these problems.
Explains the architecture of the Membership Directory and the numerous options available for deploying a large-scale directory. The paper includes specific configuration and tuning guidelines for the Membership Directory and its supporting Microsoft® SQL Server™ database.
Site Server services can produce a large number of Microsoft® Windows NT® events. Solving the problems identified by these event notifications can sometimes be difficult. This document helps to alleviate these difficulties by providing a list of Site Server service events and suggestions for ways to solve the problems.
Describes how to design, set up, and administer a very large user base using the Personalization and Membership (P&M) component of Microsoft® Site Server 3.0. This document is not intended to be an introduction to Site Server, Microsoft® SQL Server™, or Microsoft® Internet Information Server (IIS). Instead, it outlines the critical issues that corporations or independent software vendors (ISVs) should consider when planning a large-scale deployment of Site Server.
Minimizing downtime is of critical importance to many customers. Hardware failure, data corruption, and physical site destruction all pose threats to a 24-hour operation. This document addresses procedures for reducing or eliminating downtime in a Microsoft Site Server 3.0 environment.
Microsoft® Site Server Service Pack 2 supplies the updates needed for Site Server 3.0 and Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition to work with Microsoft® SQL Server™ 7.0. This document provides the information you need to use Site Server 3.0 and Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition with SQL Server 7.0.
Written for those who are new to Microsoft® Windows NT® Server, this paper introduces Performance Monitor and explains how to use it.