I have a CentralAdminServer which hosts an application, which users use and can navigate to at http://server/site. I added an application server to the farm to support the application; users cannot browse to this because it is purely an application server. I want to add a WFE on http://server2 so that users can browse to the application as http://server2/site. Instead of using AAM, I want to use a load balancer. If I add a WFE to this configuration (as stated previously), can I simply add http://server/site and http://server2/site to the load balancer? And then add the Load Balanced URL to the application settings in central admin? I shouldnt have to set AAM, right? The load balancer will determine where the requests go and then the application will determine which app server to use, correct? Thanks!

You would probably also want to confirm that you added the load balanced URL to AAM so the server will know which authentication scheme to use for access - typically default zone, Windows authentication should be fine. The load balance would usually be between the servers, and not server\site....Chris McNulty MCSE/MCTS/MSA/MVTS http://www.kma-llc.net | blog http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge | twitter @cmcnulty2000