An Introduction to Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS

1. The beta of Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS is available today.

2. What, why, and how IIS a. What is IIS?

b. What are the benefits of using IIS?

3. Demo c. How is the Application Server for IIS integrated into IIS?

a. How to setup the Application Server for IIS once it is installed.

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Create a “Hello from IIS!” web app using integrated Windows authentication and deploy to IIS.

c. Show the Application Server Demo web application running under IIS.

4. Q & A.

What Is IIS?

IIS is Microsoft Internet Information Services… it is the Microsoft web server.

• • • • • • • Benefits of Using Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS Enterprise acceptability Seamless integration with Active Directory Co-exists with ASP applications Better resource utilization on a single machine through using multiple processes Higher scalability and availability Use existing IIS tooling for common web site management needs such as virtual hosting, URL rewriting, and reverse proxy This is the web server we are using in the Alpha cloud

How is Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS integrated into IIS?

Setup the Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS 1. License 2. Direct publish

Create a “Hello from IIS!” web app.

Show the App Server Demo web application running under IIS.

The App Server Demo web application was designed to be published to the local web root of the existing web application server. See the Application Server for IIS Getting Started Guide for details on publishing it to a remote IIS server and using a remove SQL Server Express database server rather than local Access databases.

Additional Resources Request the IIS Beta Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS Overview Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS Installation Guide Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS Getting Started Guide Alpha Anywhere Application Server Active Directory Authentication and Authorization

Questions?

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