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After all the requirements have been installed successfully in the previous part, I’m going to install WSUS in this part. The updates will be stores on locally at C:\WSUS and I’ll keep information on Windows Internal Database which will be installed while installing WSUS. If you plan to keep lot of updates or service many client computers, I would recommend using Microsoft SQL Server for performance issue. For a web site for client computers to connect to this WSUS server, I’ll let WSUS create a new web site on port 8530 instead of port 80 which is a common port and may be expose security issue.

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In this part, I’ll show how to install software requirements for WSUS on Windows Server 2003.

Requirements

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Microsoft BizTalk server provides a predefined set of macros to help in create output filenames on File send handler. If you working with sending output as a file, you’ll find these macros are really useful that you don’t have to coding any statement to get these value. These macros can be found on MSDN library but I sometimes find it’s time consuming to search on MSDN every time I forget the macro. Therefore, I decide to quote the table from MSDN to this post instead.

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Introduction

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a Windows service that helps in distribution Microsoft’s updates to clients in network. It downloads updates from Microsoft Update and installs the updates to client computers in network so that each computer doesn’t need access to the Internet and download updates from Microsoft website itself. Hence, if you have a lot of computers that running Windows that require updates in your network, you can save a lot of bandwidth of the Internet connection. Also, WSUS enables centralized management. It has an administrative console that summarizes current updates available on the server and updated status of each client computer that connect to the WSUS server.

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Introduction

This post continue from last post “Getting started with Microsoft Cluster Service, Part V: Create a file server cluster (1)”. I decide to separate this part since it’s quite long to be keep in a post. In this post, I’ll create File Share resource which depends on all of the resources that I’ve created in the prevoius post. Then, I’ll bring all the resources online to complete create a file server cluster. After that, I’ll try to failover the file server cluster service from one node to another node.

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Introduction

In this part and next following post, I’m going to create a file server cluster that has 2 nodes which are BKKSQL010 and BKKSQL020. This part, I’ll create a group to hold all resouces for the file server cluster. Then, I’ll create a physical disk resource (Disk R:) on the server cluster to keep my shared files. Next, I’ll create a virtual IP address for client to access the shared folder. Last step in this part, I’ll create a network name resource to the IP address so I can access the shared folder through this name besides the IP address. I’ll cover how to create a file share resource on the next post.

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Introduction

From previous part, I have a server cluster ‘BKKCluster.virtual.com’ with a node on BKKSQL010. With a node, I can’t use failover feature of the cluster (Failover means switching applications and services from one node to another node). Therefore, I need to add another node to this cluster server to enable failover feature. In this part, I’ll show how to add node (BKSQL020) to the cluster server.

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Introduction

From last part, I have complete configured the requirement for creating a server cluster. Now I’ll create a new cluster server name ‘BKKCluster’ and add ‘BKKSQL010′ as a first node on the cluster server.

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