The past couple of weeks I have been learning and testing Amazon EC2 with Windows. I wrote another post about just getting started here. When Amazon announced that Windows would be available I started looking for a project since our current infrastructure and developers are all windows based. Now that I have a project I am actually able to work on this on company time ;).

After setting up a couple of servers, one with IIS and the other with SQL server, I see some issues that I will have to overcome before moving the servers to EC2. I will answer the first one in this post; the others will be in future posts. (more…)