With Exchange 2010 comes many advantages in the HA realm. One of them is the ability to connect to the Client Access Server for RPC. This means, when a Mailbox Server does a *over (failover or a switchover), the user is still connected to their RPC Endpoint. You can also create a Client Access Array which load balances your RPC Endpoint on your CAS … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 RTM High Availability Load Balancing Options
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Publishing Exchange 2007 Autodisover in ISA 2006 – Part 2
Since writing the first part of this article here, I've seen a lot of questions about how you really publish things like the Autodiscover as there have been many articles out there where they keep the Autodiscover in the Outlook Anywhere rule and others where they separate it out. I wrote the first part of this article a while back when Autodiscover was … [Read more...] about Publishing Exchange 2007 Autodisover in ISA 2006 – Part 2
Exchange 2007 OWA via ISA RSA – Authentication Delegation
When utilizing ISA (in this case, ISA 2006) to publish Outlook Web Access (OWA), there are various options you can choose from in order to authenticate a user. One listener authentication mechanism that is often used is Forms Based Authentication. By default, your ISA form when publishing OWA will look like the following:As you can see, by default, it asks you … [Read more...] about Exchange 2007 OWA via ISA RSA – Authentication Delegation
Default Gateways and Multihomed Edge Boxes
I seem to encounter this issue quite often and felt this topic warrants a dedicated blog post. The basic point of this post is to explain that you cannot have more than one default gateway on separate NICS on a multihomed server! Well, technically you actually can, but things won't work correctly. Now I am not saying that you cannot have multiple Default Gateways on … [Read more...] about Default Gateways and Multihomed Edge Boxes
Publishing Symantec Enterprise Vault in ISA 2006
I have seen many people encounter issues with publishing Symantec Enterprise Vault behind ISA 2006. For our scenario, OWA users go through ISA both internally as well as externally. Why do we do this? Well, when you are publishing OWA 2007 behind ISA 2006, one of the requirements is to go onto your Exchange 2007 Client Access Server (CAS) and disable Forms … [Read more...] about Publishing Symantec Enterprise Vault in ISA 2006
