• Support for Industry-Standard Network Load Balancing Hardware and Software
Support for load-balanced Web servers provides maximum scalability and availability by using Microsoft Network Load Balancer or other industry-standard software or hardware-based load balancing technology.
• Symmetric Multi-processing Support
Scale up with your hardware through direct support for multiple CPUs within the same computer.
• Dynamic Content Caching
Achieve maximum page serving performance by caching of both static and dynamic content.
• XML Content Support
Manage content in XML format with XML Placeholder Objects.
• XSLT Style Sheet Support
Support for content styling through standard Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) style sheets.
• XSD Validation Support
Support for content validation through XML schema definitions (XSDs).
• XML Web Services Support
Support for exposing content and functionality within the system as standard XML Web services.
• Distributed Administration
Optimised management of multiple sites on the same Web server or highly distributed Web sites with support for delegation of certain administrator capabilities to Channel Managers.
• Windows Active Directory Service Integration
Full support for Microsoft Active Directory® services.
• Integrated Site Deployment Solution with Application Center
Integration scripts take advantage of Application Center deployment capabilities and provide system administrators with a deployment solution that supports scheduled and automated deployments, incremental deployments for maximum performance, and transactional deployments for roll-back support in case of hardware failure.
• Site Deployment Manager
Import and export content and templates for deployment and replication between servers.
• Site Manager
Easily create and manage the site map, templates galleries, roles, and permissions in the Site Manager.
• Server Configuration Application
Configure your servers remotely and securely right from your browser.
• Extensible Workflow
Extend the workflow to integrate tightly with your existing business processes and workflow systems using the workflow hooks event model.
• Extensible Server Controls
Extend the development environment by customising pre-built controls or adding your own custom controls.
• Extensible Publishing Application
Extend the publishing environment to support your existing business processes and integrate with existing publishing applications.
• Extensible Deployment Solution
Extend the integrated deployment solution for highly customised deployment operations using the managed deployment API.
• Extensible Object Properties
Extend the properties on content objects for content integration with other data systems.