Chapter 7

Configuring High-Availability Solutions for Exchange Server

The following topics are discussed in this chapter:

  • High availability for Mailbox servers
  • High availability for Hub Transport, Client Access, and Edge Transport servers

The term high availability (HA) is often thrown into conversations, but few administrators take the time to understand what it really means. Some have been conditioned by numerous articles to think that high availability means the same thing as clustering. Although Microsoft server clustering and network load balancing are highly available platforms for applications, they do not provide high availability by themselves. Every administrator should understand that clustering is only a piece of high availability. ...

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