Book description
Design a highly available Exchange 2013 messaging environment using real-world examples
In Detail
Microsoft Exchange 2013 is the most widely used messaging platform in the world. Learning how to deploy it in a highly available manner is as fascinating and challenging as it is crucial for every organization.
This practical hands-on guide will provide you with a number of clear scenarios and examples that will explain the mechanics behind the working of Exchange Server High Availability 2013 and how maximum availability and resilience can be achieved through it. For most organizations around the world, e-mail is their top mission-critical service. Throughout nearly 20 years of Exchange development, Microsoft has been improving the Exchange platform, making it more user-friendly and reliable with each release. From Windows clusters, to Cluster continuous replication and database availability groups, the progress of Exchange in terms of availability and resilience is extraordinary.
Throughout this book, you will go through all the roles, components, and features that should be considered when addressing high availability. You will go through how to achieve high availability for the Client Access and Mailbox server roles, what's new in load balancing, site resilience, the new public folders, and much more.
You will learn to successfully design, configure, and maintain a highly available Exchange 2013 environment by going through different examples and real-world scenarios, saving you and your company time and money, and eliminating errors.
What You Will Learn
- Design and configure high availability and site resilience for Exchange 2013 roles and components
- Take advantage of the new monitoring features of Exchange 2013
- Perform Disaster Recovery, backup, and restoration of Exchange 2013
- Understand the importance of high availability and resilience
- Improve high availability comprehensively through the use of the Transport service
- Use the monitoring features of Exchange 2013 to achieve a higher level of availability
- Comprehend the influence of the new architecture of Exchange 2013 in high availability
Table of contents
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. High Availability with the Client Access Server
- 3. High Availability with the Mailbox Server
- 4. Achieving Site Resilience
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5. Transport High Availability
- Servicing of the transport pipeline
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Improving on transport high availability
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Revisiting shadow redundancy
- Creating shadow e-mails
- E-mails arriving from outside the boundary of transport high availability
- E-mails sent outside the boundary of transport high availability
- E-mails arriving from a Mailbox server within the boundary of transport high availability
- Shadow redundancy with legacy Hub Transport servers
- Configuring shadow redundancy
- Maintaining shadow e-mails
- Shadow redundancy after an outage
- Safety Net
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Revisiting shadow redundancy
- Making an inbound and outbound e-mail flow resilient
- Summary
- 6. High Availability of Unified Messaging
- 7. Backup and Recovery
- 8. Monitoring Exchange
- 9. Underlying Infrastructure
- Index
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782171508
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