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10 Apr 2006 | SearchExchange.com

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Front-end Exchange servers can become overloaded if too many users attempt to use Outlook Web Access simultaneously. In this tutorial, I explain how you can configure a Network Load Balancing Service cluster or DNS-based round-robin cluster to distribute the workload across multiple front-end Exchange servers for better performance.

Deploying a normal Exchange Server cluster is complicated and requires specialized hardware. But clustering a front-end Exchange server is fairly simple.

Technically speaking, a front-end server isn't even an Exchange server. It's actually an Internet Information Server hosting Outlook Web Access as a Web application. So, since a front-end Exchange server does not interact directly with the Exchange databases, it doesn't require a disk-sharing solution or any of the complexities normally involved in clustering back-end Exchange serv


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