Product or Service Server Cluster Aware Server Cluster Independent Network Load Balancing Cluster
Active Directory (AD) 1
Active Directory in Application Mode (ADAM)
BizTalk 2004 Server state and message box servers
BizTalk 2004 Server messaging and processing servers
BizTalk 2004 Server non-message processes
COM +
Commerce Server 2002 Web components
Commerce Server 2002 Database components
Content Management Server 2002 front-end and authoring servers
Content Management Server 2002 databases
Distributed File System
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and Windows Internet Naming Service
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Domain Name System 2
Exchange Server 2003 front end and Outlook Web Access
Exchange Server 2003 message stores
File sharing
Host Integration Server 2004 3
Identity Integration Server 2003
Internet Information Services 6.0
Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 4
Microsoft Message Queuing
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 agent
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 database components
Microsoft Speech Server 2004
Print services
Project Server 2003 Web Access and base services
Project Server 2003 database components
Live Communication Server 2003 front-end, home, and archiving servers
Live Communication Server 2003 archiving database
Remote Installation Services
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Web front-end servers, indexing and search, job servers
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 database components
SQL Server 2000
Systems Management Server 2003
Terminal Services sessions
Terminal Services licensing and session directory server
Windows SharePoint Services
Windows SharePoint Services database components

Table 1 Identifying Compatible Technologies
1 Server clusters are not recommended because AD availability is provided through multimaster replication. The same applies to ADAM.
2 Availability is provided through replication. In Windows, DNS should be integrated to the directory and support only secure replication and updates.
3 Host Integration Server also provides its own load balancing.
4 Can also support its own clustering-like service through server arrays.