Hi, Kindly post you IIS server related queries in IIS specific forum. Thanks for your understanding. Forums : The Official Microsoft IIS Site http://forums.iis.net/ Regards, Rafic If you found this post helpful, please give it a "Helpful" vote. If it answered your question, remember to mark it as an "Answer". This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights! Always test ANY suggestion in a test environment before implementing!

I want to skip a directory from being synced in the web farm. I have a server farm "TestFarm" with server "Pri"(Primary) and server "Sec"(secondary) and syncing 90% of the content over the two servers, my problem however is that that I want to skip one or two directories(In this case, the "Test" dir is the one I would like to skip). I have a hard time doing so, and have been doing endless amount of research, without having any luck fixing this. Here is a bit of info on my envoroment: Both servers running Windows Server 2008R2 Standard 64-bit, with IIS7, Web Platform Installer 3, Web Deploy 2 and WFF 2.2 Here is my website setup: With the websites pointing to: F:\Websites\Site1 F:\Websites\Site2 and then also having some Server spesific files in a folder called "Test" that I dont want synced Now I have setup an applicationProvisioning as follow: All the info that I gathered said that, for me to skip directories I must just update the "applicationHost.config" file located here "C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config" like this: (Obviously these are not real server names ", ) So I have done this, but still, the directory and its content keeps syncing every 30seconds from the primary server to the secondary server. Then I came across a guy that mentioned that, that is the wrong applicationHost.config file and I should rather change it in "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\Config" only to realsize that this file has the same data in as my other appconfig file, and sync themself as I update it. I have tried restarting the web farm, restarting IIS, but all failed. Any help would be greatly apreciated:)

damn, i added screenshots. Thought it would show :(

Hi, Kindly post you IIS server related queries in IIS specific forum. Thanks for your understanding. Forums : The Official Microsoft IIS Site http://forums.iis.net/ Regards, Rafic If you found this post helpful, please give it a "Helpful" vote. If it answered your question, remember to mark it as an "Answer". This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights! Always test ANY suggestion in a test environment before implementing!

application provisioning is "Provider=contentPath" and "Path=F:\Websites"

Applicationhost.config: <webFarms> <webFarm name="TestFarm" enabled="true" adminUserName="*****" adminPassword="*****" primaryServer="Pri"> <server address="Pri" enabled="false" /> <server address="Sec" enabled="false" /> <platformProvision stopOnInstall="false" periodicSync="00:05:00" syncPlatformFromPrimary="true" /> <applicationProvision offlineWhileSync="false" syncWebServerFromPrimary="true" periodicSync="00:00:30"> <skipDirectives> <skip name="Test" skipDirective="objectName=dirPath,absolutePath=F:\Websites\Test" /> </skipDirectives> <clear /> </applicationProvision> </webFarm> </webFarms>

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Hi Lawrence, Sorry for posting in the wrong forum. Thanks for helping me get on the right track. Cheers