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• Diagram of a web-farm? Active Directory • What is Active Directory? • Do I need Active Directory? • Diagram of Active Directory Deployment of a test environment • Deploying Active Directory • Deploying member servers with IIS • Setup your machines. • Setting up example1.com on Server1, Server2 • Setup NLB (network load-balancing) • Create AD users and Groups • Create Remote Share on file server • Configure IIS to use a remote share. Web-farms What is a web-farm? A web-farm is 2 or more machines hosting a single instance of a website. Pretty simple huh?! Yes, that is the definition of a web-farm. Wikipedia has a reference to a Server Farm. Web-farm or Server farm, they pretty much are the same thing, just worded differently. Wikipedia’s definition includes the term “cluster”. In my opinion, a cluster provides failover of a single instance of something. For example, if you have two machines hosting a single instance of a database. The database instance only runs on a single server. The