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High Availability for ARR-Week 38

You can find this week’s video here . Note: This week’s video got stuck in the publishing process so sorry for the delay, but here it is.  Next week I’ll move on to some other topics besides web farms, to mix it up. Application Request Routing (ARR Read More......( read more ) Read More...

ARR Tricks to Share with Web Server-Week 37

You can find this week’s video here . This video covers two specific tricks to allow the Application Request Routing (ARR) and Web roles to share the same server. This is useful if you have multiple servers and can't setup dedicated servers for ARR, or Read More......( read more ) Read More...

ARR Binding Trick-Week 36

You can find this week’s video here . This week's video shows a specific trick to allow a reverse proxy—Application Request Routing in this case—how to use only one IP address per web servers while supporting many distinct sites. This is extra useful Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Three ARR Back End Binding Options–Week 35

You can find this week’s video here . ARR and other reverse proxies need a way to connect to the actual web nodes. Like other reverse proxies, Microsoft’s free load balancing solution—Application Request Routing (ARR)—needs a way to connect to the sites Read More......( read more ) Read More...

ARR Health Checks–Week 34

You can find this week’s video here . Application Request Routing (ARR) is used as a load balancer (reverse proxy) for highly available websites. This week I cover health checks in ARR and lay out a few principles that will help you be more effective Read More......( read more ) Read More...

ARR Helper-Week 33

You can find this week’s video here . This week we take a look at the issue caused by the man-in-the-middle and how to resolve it with ARR Helper—a small component offered by Microsoft to address this very issue. Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Bindings and Rules for ARR-Week 32

You can find this week’s video here . This week we take a look at how to leverage URL Rewrite for Application Request Routing (ARR) to create different rules for different virtual IP's (VIP's). This is week 32 of a 52 week series for the web pro. Picking Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Introduction to Application Request Routing-Week 31

I’m finally catching up on the series.  Sorry to those who have asked about the delay.  I had completed the videos, but a delay with the article submission kept week 31 from going live.  Since it is a fundamental week, I didn’t blog about Read More......( read more ) Read More...

How to install Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.5 without Web Platform Installer (WebPI)

When ARRv2.5 was released in March 2011, it was made available only via WebPI. (Release announcement is here and the explanation on the WebPI dependency is here .) Since then, I've been asked if ARRv2.5 can be installed outside of WebPI, specifically for those who want to install ARR on Server Core where WebPI is not available. In short, yes, ARR can be installed without WebPI. But before we dive into that, let me provide more contexts. ARR consists of 4 IIS Extensions and WebPI manages the dependencies so that IIS Extensions that make up ARR can be installed in a correct order. The 4 IIS Extensions are: URL rewrite Web Farm Framework ARR External Cache So to install ARRv2.5 (only English version is available at this time) without WebPI, you would have to install the 4 IIS Extensions separately in the following order : Stop IIS first by typing "net stop was /y" and "net stop wmsvc /y" on an elevated command-line window. x86: URL rewrite (v2): Download from here Read...

What the “Failed Requests” counter in ARR really means

While troubleshooting an intermittent performance issue recently, the question came up: “What does the Failed Requests” counter in the Monitoring and Management feature in Application Request Routing (ARR) mean?” For example, does a failed health check Read More......( read more ) Read More...