Microsoft — Keeping them always-on is your bread and butter

There are a number of different types of virtual desktops; two of which rely on virtualization software.

Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool, used every day by businesses all over the world. The application therefore needs to be highly available and scalable.

Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable.

Microsoft Exchange 2019 upholds the legacy of Exchange 2016, 2013 (and numerous earlier versions) by continuing to be the ubiquitous mail server and calendaring service of choice for small, medium and enterprise-level organizations the world over.

Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users.

A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas.

Our expertise enabled a leading charity utilise their Microsoft Exchange email system making it easily accessible, secure, scalable and reliable.

If you haven’t already deployed print servers with high availability, please don't fret. It is a relatively simple and straightforward process,

I’ve noticed a lot more of our customers are asking to use their Active Directory login details with the load balancer appliance. And it can get a bit fiddly, so I wanted to explain the process in more detail.

Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server.

The Loadbalancer.org Feedback Agent is installed on the Session Host servers to provide real time performance stats to enable optimum load distribution.

In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled.

The WAF addresses the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy.

Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy.

During the major IT project to consolidate domains, the use of virtual Loadbalancer.org solutions on a temporary basis helped BenQ to ensure business continuity.

Follow the instructions below to install and configure the external health check, and once you've completed the steps you can use the health check for either layer 4 (LVS) or layer 7 (HAproxy) clusters.

Using the flexibility of both AWS and our Enterprise AWS appliance, it's possible to configure a secure and robust load balanced Remote Desktop Services deployment to suit a range of requirements.

By default, the load balancer uses a TCP connect to the port defined in the Virtual Service to verify the health of each real (backend) server. For IIS, this would typically be port 80.

WNLB causes switch flooding and does not support multiple scheduling algorithms for distributing client load.

Exchange 2013 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server. It has been designed for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation.

In Exchange 2010, system functionality is split into five server roles (Mailbox, Client Access (CAS), Unified Messaging, Hub Transport (HT) and Edge Transport).  Mandatory roles are Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport.

In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster. However, with some applications, you might get very high load from just a few users doing heavy work, which can compromise performance.

We are pretty sure Microsoft have quietly fixed this bug and not told anyone... But the story is quite fun so lets leave it here for a lesson in corporate stupidity

In Exchange Server 2013, there are two basic building blocks – the Client Access Array and the Database Availability Group (DAG).

This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software.