How to configure FTP 7.5 for IIS 7.0 in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster

• Install the Web Server role on all cluster nodes. If you are installing on Windows Server 2008, do not include the "FTP Server" role. If you are installing on Windows Server 2008 R2, include the in-box "FTP Server" role. For more information about IIS 7 deployment guide, visit the following Web site:
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771752(WS.10).aspx (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771752(WS.10).aspx)
  If you are installing on Windows Server 2008, download and install FTP 7.5 from one of the following locations:
  • Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86):
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7f5b652-8c5c-447a-88b8-8cfc5c13f571 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7f5b652-8c5c-447a-88b8-8cfc5c13f571)
  • Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x64):
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ffb7c167-279e-48d3-8169-dea85784c4d1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ffb7c167-279e-48d3-8169-dea85784c4d1)
• Install the Failover Clustering feature on all cluster nodes and create the cluster. For more information, visit the following Web site:
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197477(WS.10).aspx (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197477(WS.10).aspx)
• Set up a file share that will be used for IIS Shared Configuration.
• Configure IIS Shared Configuration on all cluster nodes.
• Configure Offline Files for IIS Shared Configuration on all cluster nodes.
• Configure the FTP site and specify the location of its content on one cluster node.
• Configure highly availability for your FTP site by creating a generic script in Failover Clustering.

Set up a file share that will be used for IIS shared configuration

1. Create a user who will access the share that will be used for the IIS shared configuration.
2. Create the file share. This share will be used to store the IIS shared configuration that will be shared between IIS on all cluster nodes. There are multiple options:
   • On a stand-alone server that is not part of any failover cluster, create a file share.
   • On another Windows Server failover cluster, create a high availability file share. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
     http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844.aspx (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844.aspx)
   • On the same failover cluster that will host the high availability FTP site, create a high availability file share. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
     http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844.aspx (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844.aspx)
3. Set the permissions on the share that you created in step 2. Give the user who you created in step 1 Full Control permissions to the file share and NTFS permissions.
4. Confirm that all cluster nodes can browse to the file share. The path of the file share is \\<fileservername>\<sharename>.

Configure the IIS shared configuration on all cluster nodes

1. Navigate to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. In the left pane, click the server name node.
3. Double-click the Shared Configuration icon.
4. On the Shared Configuration page, click Export Configuration in the Actions pane (the right pane) to export the configuration files from the local computer to another location.
5. In the Export Configuration dialog box, type the path of the file share (\\<fileservernae>\<sharename>) in the Physical path box.
6. Click Connect As, and then type the user name and the password for the user account that has access to the share in which the shared configuration is stored, and then click OK. This account will be used to access the share. You should use a restricted Active Directory account that is not the domain administrator.
7. In the Export Configuration dialog box, type a password that will be used to protect the encryption keys, and then click OK.
8. On the Shared Configuration page, click to select the Enable shared configuration check box.
9. Type the physical path, the user account, and the password that you entered previously, and then click Apply in the Actions pane.
10. In the Encryption Keys Password dialog box, type the encryption key password that you set earlier, and then click OK.
11. In the Shared Configuration dialog box, click OK.
12. Click OK.

1. Navigate to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Click the server name node.
3. Double-click the Shared Configuration icon.
4. On the Shared Configuration page, click to select the Enable shared configuration check box.
5. Type the physical path of the file share (\\<fileservername>\<sharename>), the user account, and the password that you entered previously, and then click Apply in the Actions pane.
6. In the Encryption Keys Password dialog box, type the encryption key password that you set earlier, and then click OK.
7. In the Shared Configuration dialog box, click OK.
8. Click OK.

Configure Offline Files for IIS Shared Configuration on all cluster nodes

1. Install the Desktop Experience feature. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Navigate to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
   2. In the left pane, click Features.
   3. Click Add Features in the right pane.
   4. Click to select the Desktop Experience check box, and then click Next.
   5. Click Install to install Desktop Experience.
   6. Restart the computer.
2. In Control Panel, open Offline Files.
3. Click Enable Offline Files. Do not restart the computer at this point.
4. Make sure that the cache is set to read-only. To do this, run the following command in an elevated cmd window:

   REG ADD "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters" /v ReadOnlyCache /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f 

5. Restart the computer.
6. Browse to the file server from the computer. Right-click the share that contains the IIS shared configuration, and then click Always Available Offline.
   
   Note If you set up the file share to be highly available on the same failover cluster that hosts IIS nodes, the Always Available Offline option will not appear when you right-click the share if the cluster node that you are on is hosting the highly available file server. You will have to move the high available file server application to another node.
7. In Control Panel, open Offline Files. Click Open Sync Center, and then click Schedule.
8. Schedule an offline file sync for every day or according to the requirement. You can also configure the offline sync to run every few minutes. Even if you do not set up a scheduler, when you change something in the Applicationhost.config file, the change is reflected on the Web server.

Configure the FTP site and specify the location of its content on one cluster node

1. Navigate to Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Manager.
2. Connect to the cluster. If you are on one of the cluster nodes, the cluster will appear on the list automatically.
3. Under Storage, find the disk resource on which the FTP site content will reside. To do this, expand the storage tree for the disk resource. Make sure that the storage is not used by any other high availability application on the cluster. You will find the storage under Available Storage.
4. Note the cluster node on which this resource is online. You will configure IIS on that cluster node.
5. Note the cluster disk resource name. You will use this for the content files.

1. Navigate to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. In the left pane, expand the server name node.
3. Expand Sites, right-click Sites, and then click Add FTP Site.
4. In the Add FTP Site dialog box, type the site name. For the content directory, type the location where the FTP site content files are located. This is the location of the cluster disk resource that you noted in step 5 of the previous procedure.
5. Configure remaining FTP site settings.
6. Click Finish.

Configure high availability for your FTP site by creating a generic script in Failover Cluster Manager

1. On each cluster node, copy the script at the end of this article to Windows\System32\inetsrv\Clusftp7.vbs.
2. Navigate to Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Manager.
3. Connect to the cluster. If you are on one of the cluster nodes, the cluster will appear on the list automatically.
4. Right-click the cluster, and then click Configure a Service or Application. A wizard creates the high availability workload.
5. Click Generic Script.
6. Select the script file from the following path:
   %systemroot%\System32\Inetsrv\Clusftp7.vbs
7. Set the Client Access Point (CAP) name to the FTP site name that clients will use to connect to the high availability FTP site. Specify the static IPs to use for the FTP site CAP. If you are using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), this option will not be displayed.
8. On the Select Storage step, select the cluster shared disk on which the FTP site content files reside. The storage should be unused by any other high availability application on the cluster. If the file share that is used for the IIS shared configuration is hosted on the same cluster, a different disk resource should be used here.
9. After you confirm the settings, the wizard will create the cluster group, cluster resources, and the dependencies between the resources, and then bring the resources online.

'This script provides high availability for IIS FTP websites
'The script is applicable to:
'   - Windows Server 2008: Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (available for download from microsoft.com)
'   - Windows Server 2008 R2: FTP Service in the box

'More thorough and application-specific health monitoring logic can be added to the script if needed


Option Explicit



'Helper script functions


'Start the FTP service on this node
Function StartFTPSVC()

    Dim objWmiProvider
    Dim objService
    Dim strServiceState
    Dim response

    'Check to see if the service is running
    set objWmiProvider = GetObject("winmgmts:/root/cimv2")
    set objService = objWmiProvider.get("win32_service='ftpsvc'")
    strServiceState = objService.state

    If ucase(strServiceState) = "RUNNING" Then
        StartFTPSVC = True
    Else
        'If the service is not running, try to start it
        response = objService.StartService()

        'response = 0  or 10 indicates that the request to start was accepted
        If ( response <> 0 ) and ( response <> 10 ) Then
            StartFTPSVC = False
        Else
            StartFTPSVC = True
        End If
    End If
    
End Function



'Cluster resource entry points. More details here:
'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372846(VS.85).aspx

'Cluster resource Online entry point
'Make sure the FTP service is started
Function Online( )

    Dim bOnline
    'Make sure FTP service is started
    bOnline = StartFTPSVC()

    If bOnline <> True Then
        Resource.LogInformation "The resource failed to come online because ftpsvc could not be started."
        Online = False
        Exit Function
    End If

    Online = true 

End Function

 
'Cluster resource offline entry point
'On offline, do nothing.
Function Offline( )

    Offline = true

End Function


'Cluster resource LooksAlive entry point
'Check for the state of the FTP service
Function LooksAlive( )

    Dim objWmiProvider
    Dim objService
    Dim strServiceState
 
    set objWmiProvider = GetObject("winmgmts:/root/cimv2")
    set objService = objWmiProvider.get("win32_service='ftpsvc'")
    strServiceState = objService.state

    if ucase(strServiceState) = "RUNNING" Then
	LooksAlive = True
    Else
	LooksAlive = False
    End If

End Function


'Cluster resource IsAlive entry point
'Do the same health checks as LooksAlive
'If a more thorough than what we do in LooksAlive is required, this should be performed here
Function IsAlive()   

    IsAlive = LooksAlive

End Function


'Cluster resource Open entry point
Function Open()

    Open = true

End Function


'Cluster resource Close entry point
Function Close()

    Close = true

End Function


'Cluster resource Terminate entry point
Function Terminate()

    Terminate = true

End Function