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Windows System Administrator Resources

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Resources

Web Farms and Network Load Balancing (NLB)

• Web Farming with the Network Load Balancing Service in Windows Server 2003: When a single Web Server machine isn’t enough to handle the traffic on your Web site it’s time to look into building a Web Farm that uses multiple machines on the network acting as a single server. In this article Rick looks at the Windows Load Balancing Service and the new interface it sports in Windows Server 2003, which makes creating a Web Farm quick and easy and – gasp –even an affordable solution.
• Deploying Network Load Banancing
• Setting Up a Front-End NLB Cluster
• Web Server Clustering

Web server stress test tool - Microsoft Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT)

This tool simulates load for your Web applications. By simulating load for your application, you can test concurrency issues as well as better understand how your application behaves under stress.

It is part of Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit Tools

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Performance Advisor

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Performance Advisor is the latest version of Server Performance Advisor, which is a simple but robust tool that helps you diagnose the root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 deployment. Server Performance Advisor collects performance data and generates comprehensive diagnostic reports that give you the data to easily analyze problems and develop corrective actions.

You can download from Microsoft Web Site

IIS 6.0 Tracing Request

In Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 1 or later) IIS includes IIS Currently-Executing Requests Tracing and IIS Request-Based Tracing features.

• Currently Executing Requests Tracing (IIS 6.0)
• How to Trace All Requests Currently Executing in IIS Worker Processes (IIS 6.0)
• How to Process and View Trace Log Files (IIS 6.0)
• IIS 6.0 Tracing Example

Windows Debugging Tools

• Windows Debugging Tools Overview
• Investigating ASP.Net Memory Issues using WinDbg and SOS

Troubleshooting IIS

• KB911816 - Unhandled exceptions cause ASP.NET-based applications to unexpectedly quit in the .NET Framework 2.0

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Clustering and Load Balancing Resources

• Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Clustering Services
• Implementing Windows Cluster Services and Network Load Balancing
• SQL Server 2000 Failover Clustering

Other Microsoft Windows Resources

Index Service

• Site Search using Microsoft Indexing Services (Index Server)
• Performance Tuning Microsoft Indexing Services (Index Server)

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: i8042prt

• Fix i8042prt Error