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Microsoft Windows Clustering		Internet Information Server
Windows Networking Services		File and Print Services
Exchange Clustering		Microsoft Applications
Majority Node Set		Third Party Products
Network Load Balancing		Hardware Vendors
SQL 2000 Clustering		Miscellaneous

Clustering Books (top)

MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Clustering Services - No longer sold but it had some really good tips and examples.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 24seven - Excellent chapter on Exchange Server 2003 Clustering (and not just because I help edit it).

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled - Excellent chapter on Exchange Server 2003 Clustering.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability - A whole book on SQL High Availability - Cool!.

Windows Networking Services (top)

Checklist Installing a DHCP Service resource

Cluster support for DHCP servers

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for Windows Server 2003

Using Clustered DHCP Servers

174956 - WINS, DHCP, and DNS Not Supported As Failover Resources

193890 - Recommended WINS Configuration for Microsoft Cluster Server

226796 - Using WINS and DHCP with the Windows 2000 Cluster Service

290880 - How WINS Functions on a Cluster Server

301596 - Problems When You Configure More Than One MSMQ Cluster Resource on a Cluster

325547 - Support WebCast Using WINS and DHCP on Microsoft Windows 2000 Clusters

Internet Information Server (top)

Checklist Creating a clustered IIS Web or FTP service

Improving IIS 6.0 Scalability and Availability with Network Load Balancing (IIS 6.0)

Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0

Microsoft Cluster Server Demo

Q. How can I create a Web service or an FTP service in a Windows Server 2003 cluster virtual server

248025 - How to Configure Clustered IIS Virtual Servers on Windows 2000 Advanced Server

255184 - Errors During Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack Installation on Microsoft Cluster Server Running Microsoft Distributed Transa

258693 - CLUSTER IIS Server Instance Resources in Server Cluster Remain Offline After Installation of NNTP

258699 - Client Sessions May Be Lost While Accessing a Web Farm Program

298559 - How to Load Balance Secure Web Traffic Between Two IIS Servers and Still Use Certificates

885440 - Internet Information Services Web sites that are hosted on the cluster do not start automatically when an Exchange Server 2003

887417 - The IIS Server Instance resource type does not appear in Cluster Administrator on a Windows Server 2003 server cluster

888186 - A Web site does not appear in the IIS Server list when you create an IIS Server Instance on a Windows 2000 server cluster

File and Print Services (top)

Creating and Configuring a Highly Available Print Server Under Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Using a Server Cluster

Creating Highly Available Print Servers

Enable Shadow Copies of Shared Folders in a cluster

Microsoft File and Print Service Failover Using Microsoft Cluster Server

Print Server Clustering

stringbeansoftware-KB-SharedCluster.pdf

Using a server cluster with large numbers of file shares

Using Shadow Copies of Shared Folders in a server cluster Server Clusters (MSCS)

170762 - Cluster Shares Appear in Browse List Under Other Names

185212 - Cluster Server Does Not Support More than 900 Shares

197046 - How to Set up a Print Spooler on Microsoft Cluster Server

220819 - How to Configure Dfs Root on a Windows 2000 Server Cluster

224375 - Unable to Change File Share Resource to a Standard DFS Root

224384 - HOW TO Force Deletion of DFS Configuration Information

224508 - HOW TO Migrate a Dfs Root Configuration to a Windows 2000 Cluster

224967 - How to Create File Shares on a Cluster

228904 - Print Spooler Support on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Cluster

229733 - During Cluster Failover Print Queue Monitoring May Stop

232478 - Cluster Server DFS Root Resource Does Not Pass Status Check

238137 - Considerations When You Create Clustered File Shares on a Windows 2000 Server Cluster

254219 - Security Considerations When Implementing Clustered File Shares

256926 - Implementing Home Folders on a Server Cluster

257389 - Microsoft Cluster Server May Not Share Folders Automatically

258443 - Cluster Spooler Notification Incorrectly Reports Node Name Instead of Virtual Name

258464 - Printer Spooler Resource Continually Fails Between Nodes During a Failover

266058 - How to Migrate a Printer Server to a Server Cluster

267833 - Cannot Set NTFS Permissions on Files Located on Clustered File Share Resource

275556 - How To Create a Shared Printer on Windows Clustering

278455 - How to Set Up a Clustered Print Server

282011 - Printer Driver Is Not Compatible If a Policy Is Enabled on Your Computer

284838 - How to Create a Server Cluster File Share with Cluster.exe

301588 - HOW TO Use DFS on a Server Cluster to Maintain a Single Namespace

302539 - How to Troubleshoot Printing Issues on a Windows Server 2003 Cluster

308347 - ClusterDriverDirectory Does Not Change the Location for Printers on the Shared Disk

325231 - Support WebCast Creating Highly Available File and Printer Shares with Windows Cluster Service

813552 - Error 50 in Cluster Log and Distributed File System Root Does Not Come Online on a Cluster Service

817154 - Print Spooler Resource Stops Working on Windows Server Cluster

817229 - You cannot print to your printer and you receive the Errors Event ID 1069 Cluster resource spooler failed error me

817229 - You cannot print to your printer and you receive the Errors Event ID 1069 Cluster resource spooler failed error message in

818755 - White Paper Print Server Clustering

822553 - You Experience Slow Printer Performance on a Clustered Print Server

829885 - Distributed File System update to support consolidation roots in Windows Server 2003

835609 - You receive an error message when you try to use the Add Printer Wizard to add a printer to a virtual server that is part of a

838337 - Printers on a cluster are not published in Active Directory in Windows Server 2003

838421 - How to configure the Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature on a Windows Server 2003-based server cluster file share

872790 - You cannot connect to a cluster file share resource in Windows 2000 Server

886664 - Custom forms may not be updated when users connect to a spooler resource on a cluster node that is running Windows 2000 Server

886807 - Shared disks are missing or are marked as Failed when you create a server cluster in Windows Server 2003

888208 - You receive a Specified print monitor is unknown error message when you try to install a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 8000 series

888744 - The printer driver may not be updated on the client computers after you update the printer driver on a Windows Server 2003-base

891754 - Information about rolling upgrade support with NFS components on Windows 2000-based clusters and on Windows Server 2003-based c

900622 - DFS referral queries do not return the fully qualified domain name of the DFS root in a Windows Server 2003 cluster environment

Microsoft Applications (top)

BizTalk Server 2004 Technical Guide for High Availability

Download details Server Clusters Management Pack for MOM 2005

Load Balancing COM+ Components in Microsoft Application Center

Microsoft Application Center Product Overview

Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server (ISA) 2000 - Using Network Load Balancing

243839 - Services for Macintosh Not Supported in a Cluster Environment

288686 - XADM Mssearch May Block Cluster Failover from Occurring During a Crawl

297118 - Error Message Occurs When You Install SharePoint Portal Server on a Cluster Server

303121 - How To Install BizTalk 2000 on Microsoft Cluster Server

321190 - SQL Server cluster supportability with MCMS 2001-2002

884178 - How to cluster the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) service on the master secret server in BizTalk Server 2004

884975 - Performance Monitor counters may not appear, and the counter values may be incorrect when you remotely monitor clustered instan

887286 - Event ID 1084 and event ID 1009 errors occur when you open an ASP.NET Web page in an Application Center 2000 cluster

888265 - How to move Microsoft Provisioning Server (MPS) databases to a clustered virtual SQL Server 2000 named instance

889474 - A COM+ QC application that you also configured to run as a Windows NT service is the only COM server configuration that you can

890667 - The Request Forwarder may cause high CPU utilization and requests may be blank when you run Application Center 2000 in a cluste

891754 - Information about rolling upgrade support with NFS components on Windows 2000-based clusters and on Windows Server 2003-based c

892048 - FIX An orchestration in BizTalk Server 2004 is suspended and is marked as not resumable when the SQL Server-based cluster fa

892429 - Systems Management Server 2003 cluster support requirements

894884 - You must turn off the Enable automatic synchronization option on all members of an Application Center 2000 server cluster bef

895983 - Event ID 1011 and Event ID 1009 occur when you use an ISA Server cluster in front of an Application Center 2000 cluster

896073 - How to explicitly set a specific network adaptor for cluster communication on a member server in Application Center 2000

898701 - How to use the Mmcv.exe utility to manage clustered Message Queuing resources

898945 - How to implement Message Queuing 3.0 in a server cluster

898946 - The Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 on server clusters containing MSMQ resources white paper is available

Third Party Products (top)

Azaleos - Exchange appliance

Idera Tools for Data Management

Iometer project

LeftHand SAN-iQ Software - IP SAN-iSCSI Storage

LeftHand SAN-iQ Remote IP Copy Application - Business Continuance IP SAN

Legato - High Availability Family of Products

Marathon FTvirtual Server

NEC Complete High Availability Servers Solutions, and Systems

NSI - Double-Take Real-Time Data Protection Software

NSI - GeoCluster Real-Time Data Protection Software

Oracle High Availabitlity

PolyServe - Matrix Server on Windows Solutions

Quest Products SQL Server Overview

Stratus fault tolerant server with Continuous Availability for Windows Uptime

TNT-Software Advanced Cluster Server Monitoring Solutions

VERITAS Products High Availability

VMWare - Creating a Cluster in a Box

Windows Cluster Resource Centre, University of Southampton, UK

XOsoft - WANSyncHA Product Suite

Hardware Vendors (top)

Compaq.com - Increasing Availability of Cluster Communications in a Windows NT Cluster

DataCore - SANmelody - iSCSI

Dell High Availability Clustering

FalconStor iSCSI Storage Server for Windows Storage Server 2003

HP.com - ProLiant Clusters - ProLiant Cluster HA-F500 - Stretch Cluster Solution - description

HP.com - ProLiant High Availability

IBM Cluster and high availability solutions

IBM eServer Cluster 1350

IBM eserver xSeries clustering home page

Rocket Division Software - iSCSI Initiator (client)

String Bean Software - WinTarget - Windows iSCSI Target

Win iSCSI Target - Download Win iSCSI Target from Networking category

Miscellaneous (top)

CTC High-Performance Solutions Home

IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing

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