Welcome to the MSExchange.org Load Balancing Section. Here you will find the latest articles, news, white papers, and a number of essential links to help all Exchange administrators deal with load balancing and high availability issues.
Use Content Switching and Header Modification for Application Delivery
Content Switching and Header Modification these two HTTP/HTTPS specific features allow a KEMP Load Balancer to become a valuable part of your application delivery rather than just a traffic balancer. Learn how to get the most from these important features by clicking here.
Using a KEMP Load Balancer to Increase Exchange 2010 Availability & Scalability
The New KEMP LoadMasters have many new features implemented to improve interaction with Exchange 2010, such as: Drop connection on Real Server Failure, Re-encryption, Wildcard Virtual Services, Extra ports, Super HTTP persistence and templates. Learn how to use these features to improve Exchange 2010 Availability and Scalability by clicking here.
Pros and Cons of Layer 7 Transparency for Server Load Balancing
To place a Load balancer your network effectively utilizing layer 7 functionality there are two options, L7 Transparency or L7 Non-Transparency. Click here to learn more.
Moving to 2048 SSL keys and the impact on computing resources
As almost all Certificate Authorities now issue 2048 SSLk keys, learn about the large impact on server resources and what you can do about it. Click here to learn more.
Why you need to Load Balance Exchange 2010 presented by Exchange MVP Jaap Wesselius
- Why do you want to load balance exchange
- Microsoft load balancing history
- Load balancing principles
- When you can get by with Lync's built-in DNS lb capabilities......and when you can't.
- What you can use for a reverse proxy with Lync, once TMG is discontinued.
- How load balancing Lync 2013 is different than Lync 2010 and how it's not.
- Real world load balancer misconfiguration and how it can affect your deployment.
- What you need to know about Unified Messaging HA and VoIP Gateways
- Network Load Balancing tips for Hub Transport and Edge servers
- Using Microsoft's NLB when deploying CAS Servers
- Why you should not rely on DNS Round Robin configuration
- Common configuration pitfalls and how to avoid them
RDS: Expanding Past One Server presented by RDS MVP Greg Shields
- Secrets for load balancing RDS and expanding past one server.
- Alternative load balancing solutions that now exist to greatly enhance your RDS management experience.
- Load balancing, name resolution and updated client connections.
- More complex RDS design.
![]() |
![]() |
In this article the author will explore Automatic Reseed, a new feature introduced in Exchange 2013 to further improve Database Availability Groups.
In this two part article, we’ll examine layer-4 load balancing support in Exchange Server 2013 and explain how these changes along with a move to HTTPS-only client access simplify configuration and management of the new Exchange.
In this two part article, we’ll examine layer-4 load balancing support in Exchange Server 2013 and explain how these changes along with a move to HTTPS-only client access simplify configuration and management of the new Exchange.
In this article the author discusses email high availability using the Exchange Edge role to provide email routing.
In this article the author will provide a PowerShell script which will allow for Exchange 2010 administrators to layout their Mailbox Databases within a CSV file as well as their associated Database copies which can then ...
Finishing a look at Single Item Recovery in Exchange 2010, covering discovery searches and the MFCMAPI tool.
Continuing the look at the feature known as Single Item Recovery in Exchange 2010.
A look at the feature known as Single Item Recovery in Exchange.
Alteon Virtual Appliance (VA) is a fully-featured Alteon Application Switch packaged as a virtual appliance running on server virtualization infrastructure, providing identical functionality to Alteon physical ADC devices including local and global server load balancing, Layer ...
Try our Free 30 Day Trial of the KEMP Virtual Load Balancer for VMware and Hyper-V. The LoadMaster Virtual Load Balancer can help: Test New Applications Try out new features, Test Virtual Environments and Stage Firmware ...
The Barracuda Load Balancer Vx is designed to help organizations leverage their virtualized infrastructure to achieve continuous availability for their mission critical applications. The Barracuda Load Balancer Vx integrates IP load balancing and network intrusion prevention ...
Citrix NetScaler is an application delivery and load balancing solution. It delivers application availability, application and database server offload, acceleration and advanced application-layer attack protection - all in a single device, with a unified policy. Deployed ...
The Loadbalancer.org Virtual Appliance is a revolution in software load balancing. The software is simple to install on Windows, Mac & Linux and does not have any adverse effects on the host operating system.
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) improves the performance and availability of your applications by intelligently directing users to the closest or best-performing data center. Using high-performance DNS services, BIG-IP GTM scales and secures your DNS infrastructure ...
The KEMP LoadMaster-Exchange and Virtual LoadMaster-Exchange are Layer 4/7 Load Balancer appliances, purpose-built for Exchange 2010. They are designed to address the availability & scalability demands of Exchange deployments with combined versatility and ease-of-use to speed ...
Citrix NetScaler is an application delivery and load balancing solution. It delivers application availability, application and database server offload, acceleration and advanced application-layer attack protection - all in a single device, with a unified policy. Deployed ...
Stingray Traffic Manager benefits include Speed: Accelerate services, increase capacity, and reduce costs by offloading performance-draining tasks such as SSL and compression onto Stingray Traffic Manager's implementations. Reliability: Improve application availability by distributing traffic, avoiding failed ...
AppDirector uses Layer 4-7 policies and granular application intelligence for end-to-end business-smart networking. AppDirector aligns server infrastructure operations with application front end requirements to eliminate: Traffic surges, Server bottlenecks, Connectivity disconnects, and Downtime. AppDirector enables fine ...