How To Use Application Center 2000 with Site Server 3.0 Personalization and Membership (281828)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Application Center 2000
  • Microsoft Site Server 3.0
This article was previously published under Q281828

SUMMARY

If you want to use Application Center 2000 to cluster Site Server 3.0 sites that use the Personalization and Membership (P&M) feature, you must take some additional configuration steps to allow Site Server to operate in an Application Center 2000 cluster:
  • Add the Site Server Membership Server Mapping metabase node to the Application Center 2000 application for your Site Server Web site.
  • Remove leading spaces from the Custom Errors Contents paths for HTTP Errors 401;1 through 401;5 on your Site Server Web site.
  • Obtain and install a post-Service Pack (SP4) Site Server hotfix for Mss_log.dll.
See the following section for detailed information on these steps.

MORE INFORMATION

Add Membership Mappings Metabase Node to Application Center 2000 Application

The Site Server Membership Server Mapping settings that you make using the IIS admin snap-in (by right-clicking the Site Server Web site and then clicking on All Tasks/Membership Server Mapping) are not stored under the Site Server Web site node in the metabase. They are stored by site number under the /LM/membership/mappings/W3SVC/ node. You should add the appropriate node to your Application Center 2000 application that contains your Site Server Web site. You can use the following steps to do this:

  1. Find the name of the Application Center 2000 application that contains your Site Server Web site. Open the Application Center 2000 Admin Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, under the cluster, click the Applications node and note the name of the application in the upper right pane that contains your Site Server Web site in the lower right pane.
  2. Find the IIS site number of your Site Server Web site. You can use the WSH script in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article to find the number:

    197891 Enumerating the Names of IIS Web Sites Using WSH

  3. Use the Application Center 2000 command line tool to add the appropriate node to the Application Center 2000 application

    C:>AC APPLICATION /ADDRESOURCE
    /NAME:"Application Center 2000 Application"
    /RESOURCETYPE:IIS
    /RESOURCEPATH:/LM/Membership/Mappings/W3SVC/n

    and replace Application Center 2000 Application with the name that you noted in step 1 and n with the site number that you found in step 2. NOTE: This command must all be on a single command line. It is wrapped here for readability.
  4. Verify your change using the Application Center 2000 Admin snap-in. Navigate to the application you found in step 1 and verify that the lower right pane has a new entry for the metabase path you added in step 3.

Remove Leading Spaces from Custom Error Contents Paths

  1. Use the IIS Admin snap-in to open your Site Server site Properties and click Custom Errors.
  2. Click the HTTP error entry for 401;1, and then select Edit Properties and, finally, click OK.
  3. Repeat step 2 for 401;2 through 401;5.
NOTE: You must repeat this procedure every time that you add a new membership server mapping. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

281844 Application Center Synchronization of Site Server Site Fails with Event 5047

Apply Site Server Hotfix

Obtain and install the Site Server Post-SP4 hotfix described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

288896 AuthFilter Misdirects Cookie-Enabled Browsers and Indicates That No Cookie Is Present

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/13/2004
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