Exchange Server's Client Access: Load-Balancing Your Servers

With all client connections coming through this server role, it's crucial to ensure that your servers can handle the load

The Client Access server role plays a big part in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 by providing the access point for every Exchange client. With such a big responsibility, you need to ensure that your Client Access servers can handle the load from your users and that these servers have minimal downtime. In my previous articles in this series, I provided an introduction to the Client Access server role ("Exchange Server's Client Access: An Introduction") and gave you an ...

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Discuss this Article 6

gabrielpaal
on Oct 14, 2010
Nice article. Does a good job of clearly laying out some complicated items. One thing to add: If you have a lot of pre-existing databases you can use this command to update the CA Array Object:

get-mailboxdatabase|Set-MailboxDatabase -RpcClientAccessServer outlook.contoso.com
jorgesalinas
on Mar 16, 2011
Nice Article...!

I just have one question should I also include SMTP (Port TCP 25) on the NLB configuration? If not, could you please explain me why?

Thank you in advance..!
gabrielpaal
on Oct 14, 2010
Nice article. Does a good job of clearly laying out some complicated items. One thing to add: If you have a lot of pre-existing databases you can use this command to update the CA Array Object:

get-mailboxdatabase|Set-MailboxDatabase -RpcClientAccessServer outlook.contoso.com

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Exchange Server 2010 Project Plan

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Planning


A First Look at Echange 2010

Exchange 2010 SP1: More Than a Simple Upgrade

Exchange Server Deployment Options

Preparing to Deploy Exchange 2010

Advancements in Exchange 2010 and Communications Server "14"

Planning for Exchange Server 2010 Personal Archives

Load Testing with Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010: Can You Have Too Much RAM?

Session 1: Bigger Mailboxes, Fewer Disks, Less Money

Migrating


Migrating from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010: A Small Organization Perspective

Going Virtual with Exchange 2010

Exchange Server's Client Access: An Introduction

Exchange Server's Client Access: Deploying Your Servers

Session 2: Virtualization The Straight Scoop

Exchange Server's Client Access: Load-Balancing Your Servers

Exchange Server’s Client Access: Securing Your Servers

Moving Mailboxes the Exchange 2010 Way

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Mailbox Import and Export

Working with the Features of Exchange 2010


Mastering Exchange Server 2010’s Exchange Control Panel

Exchange 2010: High Availability with DAGs

Deploying Database Availability Groups in Exchange Server 2010

What’s New In Exchange 2010 & Remote PowerShell

Exchange Server’s Client Access: Server Administration

Exchange Server 2010 Role Based Access Control

Auditing Administrators’ Actions with Exchange 2010

Database Maintenance in Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Information Rights Management in Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 High Availability

Walkthrough of Exchange 2010 DAG Creation

Multi-Mailbox Search in Exchange Server 2010

Exchange 2010 MRM: Implementing New Retention Policies

Exchange 2010 MRM: How to Modify and Reduce Help Desk Calls About Retention Policies

Manipulating Mailbox Contents in Exchange 2010

More Exchange 2010 SP1 Mailbox Cmdlets

Prevent Problems with Exchange Server 2010's MailTips

OWA Customization in Exchange 2010

Exchange Server 2010: A New Mobile Frontier

Unified Messaging in Exchange 2010

Session 3: Exchange Management Shell