Production Blueprint · Industry-standard pattern
Windows enterprise: identity, patching and a web farm
How a Windows estate is held together: Active Directory gives every server an identity and Group Policy configures it, WSUS controls how patches roll out, IIS servers sit behind a load balancer so one can be patched at a time, and event logs flow to a central place.
Active DirectoryGroup PolicyDNSWSUSIISLoad balancerWindows Event ForwardingLog platform
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Here is what's inside:
- How the estate fits together
- Patching the web farm without an outage
- What each piece is for
- Where it goes wrong
- The interview talk track
- What I'd improve next
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