Exchange 2013 SP1 Edge Transport Server

Reintroduced in Exchange 2013 SP1 is the Edge Transport server role. This server role is for message hygiene purposes for Internet messages. Messages arriving from the Internet are delivered to the Edge Transport server, messages sent by users to the Internet are delivered by the Edge Transport server. The primary role of the Edge Transport Server is to clean up the incoming message and filter out all spam messages. In this blog post I’ll discuss how to install and configure the Exchange 2013 SP1 Edge Transport server. Continue reading Exchange 2013 SP1 Edge Transport Server

Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5

Microsoft recently released its quarterly update for Exchange Server 2013, Cumulative Update 5 (CU5), and the successor of Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 (which is Cumulative Update 4 under the hood). It is a Cumulative Update, so it contains all fixes, features and functionality of earlier CU’s so if you’re installing a fresh Exchange 2013 server or upgrade for example from CU2 there’s no need to install SP1 first. Just start directly installing Exchange 2013 CU5.

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Kemp Load Master R320

One of the load balancer vendors I have been working with quite a lot is Kemp, this shouldn’t be new I suppose.

A typical load balancer is configured in a “2 armed” scenario: one NIC is connected to the ‘external network’ which typically is the network where the clients connects to while the other NIC is connected to the ‘internal network’ where the servers connect to.

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