Racks of servers to support mobile devices

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If your application supports Windows Mobile, you'll be interested in Rob Tiffany's latest endeavor. His next book will show you how to put together your own scalable rack of servers that can support tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices. The book is entitled, Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1.

He's making each chapter available online on his Windows Mobile development blog. So far he has chapters written that show:

  • How to install and configure the SQL Server Distributor
  • How to install and configure SQL Server Publisher
  • How to install and configure web synchronization on your IIS server

Still to come:

  • Domain Security
  • Building the client
  • Ongoing maintenance