Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 Web Client Scale-Out Deployment: Extending IIS With ASP.NET 4.5 On Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Dynamics GPExtending a website with ASP.NET 4.5 required the use of command line (which I will cover in the next post), but Windows Server 2012 requires this be done using the Server Manager (there may be a PowerShell command to do this, but, if so, I don’t know what it is).

As I mentioned in a comment in the last post, if you’re installing IIS to configure the web client then you don’t need to treat this step separately, but merely add the step to the installation options for IIS.

To extend IIS on Windows Server 2012, you need to open Server Manager and click Add roles and features:

Server Manager

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 Web Client Scale-Out Deployment: Installing IIS On Session Control Server

Microsoft Dynamics GPBefore we can start installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 Web Client, there are a few steps which need to be completed.

The first of them is to install the IIS Web Server on the machine which will operate as the Session Control Server. In my case, this is the SC1 machine which is running Windows Server 2012. IIS is installed via Server Manager by clicking Add roles and features:

Server Manager

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MB3-700 Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Installation & Configuration Certification Acquired

Microsoft Certified Technology SpecialistI updated one of my Microsoft Certifications yesterday by taking the MB3-700 Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Installation & Configuration exam.

The exam was fairly similar to the GP 2010 version I took a while ago, but this time round had a number of questions on the Web Client. Fairly fortunate that I’ve started writing a series of posts on it.

I’m looking to do the Financials exam later in the month and, if one is released, would like to get the Inventory & Order Processing certificate updated as well.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 Web Client Scale-Out Deployment: Introduction

Microsoft Dynamics GPBack in April I did a series of posts on the new Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client covering the installation and first use. In that series of posts I look at installing the web client as a single machine deployment.

Well, I thought it was time to do a series of posts on installing the Web Client as a scale-out deployment; that is, one where the components of the Web Client are installed on separate machines. This type of deployment is typically done by larger organisations who have need for multiple session hosts (the web client equivalent of a Terminal, or Citrix, server).

To install the scale out deployment of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2, I have configured a number of test servers with, predominantly, Windows Server 2012 to use for his series of posts (Server Name in parenthesis):

  • Domain Controller (DC1)This is the one Windows Server 2008 R2 being used because I saw no reason to create an entirely new DC and so am reusing the one I created last year.
  • SQL Server (SQL1)Running two instances of SQL Server 2012 Datacentre:
    1. GP (SQL1) – which will host the Microsoft Dynamics GP system and company databases
    2. Reporting (SQL1) – which will host the SQL Server Reporting Services databases
  • Reporting Server (RPT1)Running SQL Server 2012 Datacentre Reporting Services.
  • Session Control (SC1)This is the IIS Web Server running the Session Control Service which controls the Session Host to which the user will be assigned when they log into Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client.
  • Session Host 1 (SH1)Runs the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client Runtime which.
  • Session Host 2 (SH2)Duplicate of the above machine.

I did, briefly, consider writing an overview of the architecture, services and infrastructure of the Web Client, but quickly decided that the Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client Infrastructure Overview post by Aaron Donat on the Developing for Dynamics GP blog was much more comprehensive than anything I would have done.

Over the coming days and, possibly, weeks, I will be taking a look through all the steps needed to create a scale out deployment of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 Web Client (and only 10 months later than I told Brian R. that I would be doing this series of posts).

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