In this scenario, Terra Flora has successfully deployed Internet Information Server on a department-level server (see Chapter 4) and is setting up an IIS server for each division.
This scenario assumes that dedicated hardware is not available for each division's IIS server. Therefore, Terra Flora installs Internet Information Server on an existing computer running Windows NT Server, then creates a virtual server for each division, as shown in Table 5.1.
Table 5.1 Computer Names for Terra Flora Divisions
Division | Computer name URL |
Retail | http://retail |
Supply and Manufacturing | http://supply |
Nursery | http://nursery |
These servers will provide information—such as project plans and employee services—to new members or to other division employees. For examples of how Terra Flora will distribute information, see the section "Information Distribution," later in this chapter.
Ideally, each division operates a separate server. Automatic IP address administration by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) name resolution works on separate servers that are each addressed with a single Internet Protocol (IP) address. After you install Internet Information Server, name resolution on the network automatically "finds" the IIS server; no additional network configuration is required for name resolution. DHCP and WINS are designed to work together for automatic name resolution on a network, as explained in Chapter 2.
For example scenarios that use automatic DHCP configuration and WINS resolution, see "Peer Web Services on an Intranet Desktop" and "Internet Information Server as a Single Intranet Server" in Chapter 4, "Desktop Scenarios."