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Microsoft
How to load balance Microsoft Dynamics using HAProxy Andrei Grigoras
Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool. It, therefore, needs to be highly available and scalable. Here's how you can achieve that.

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Microsoft
Microsoft
Are the Microsoft apps you depend on dependable enough?! Rob Cooper
Here our Lead Technical Author/Architect at Loadbalancer.org, Rob Cooper, explains why you need to load balance your Microsoft Apps, and explains how to do this with Microsoft Exchange Server, Remote Desktop Services, Internet

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Application Management
Application Management
Load balancing Exchange 2019 Neil Hosking
How does load balancing Exchange 2019 differ from load balancing previous versions of Microsoft's mailbox server? We've assembled everything you need to know.

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Cloud & IT Infrastructure
Cloud & IT Infrastructure
Ensuring high availability of a Microsoft Exchange environment for a leading cloud provider Rosalind Bootle
Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users.

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Application Management
Application Management
How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service Tom Hopkins
Find out how a specialist IT services provider delivers consistent application experience for over 4,500 concurrent users.

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

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Print
Print
Microsoft Windows print spooler and any other Windows service health check Imannuel Graham
The best way to check the health of your print server.

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How-Tos
How-Tos
How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS? Neil Hosking
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 write

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Application Management
Application Management
Load Balancing Exchange 2016 Neil Hosking
Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server. It has been designed for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation. This has greatly simplified both the deployment process and the implementation

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Microsoft
Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure Ben Cabot
This blog will provide a quick start guide on how to load balance Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host servers using the Enterprise Azure Loadbalancer.org Azure cloud appliance. • Microsoft Connection Broker is used, the Loadbalancer.

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Application Management
Application Management
Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure Jake Borman
This blog will provide a quick start guide on how to load balance Web Servers and configure a WAF using the Enterprise Azure Loadbalancer.org Azure cloud appliance. • The WAF addresses the OWASP Top 10

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Security
Load Balancing Apache Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure Roman Humphreys
This blog will provide a quick start quide on how to load balance Apache Web Servers and configure a WAF using the Enterprise Azure Loadbalancer.org Azure cloud appliance. • The WAF addresses the OWASP Top

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Application Management
Application Management
How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy Andrei Grigoras
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.

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High Availability
High Availability
Loadbalancer.org & BenQ Case Study Jake Borman
BenQ meets user expectations with high-performance Microsoft Exchange platform in Europe. With employees spread across ten European countries, BenQ needs to ensure that its email system in Europe delivers high performance and exceptional availability. It

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Microsoft
MS SQL Health Check Neil Hosking
Recently we've noticed more customers are load balancing Microsoft SQL Server. We already have a built in MySQL health check in the appliance, but until now we've avoided having a Microsoft SQL check as it

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Application Management
Application Management
Load balancing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services in AWS Rob Cooper
We have an increasing number of customers who are using our Enterprise AWS load balancer appliance for load balancing remote desktop services in the AWS cloud. RDS users could be located on the public Internet

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Microsoft
Enhanced Microsoft IIS health checks using VBscript Rob Cooper
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. In

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Microsoft
Windows NLB (WNLB) and its disadvantages Rob Cooper
Whilst Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB) has been constantly improved in each version of Windows since it's introduction in Windows 2000, it still has a fairly extensive list of disadvantages when compared to a hardware

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Application Management
Load Balancing Exchange 2013 Rob Cooper
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. This has greatly simplified both the deployment process and the implementation

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Application Management
Load Balancing Exchange 2010 Rob Cooper
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. The Edge Transport

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Application Management
Open Source Windows service for reporting server load back to HAProxy (load balancer feedback agent). Malcolm Turnbull
In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster and you get pretty consistent and even load balancing. However with some applications such as RDS (Microsoft

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Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft drops support for mstshash cookies? (embrace and destroy policy?) Dave Saunders
UPDATE: November 2015 - We are pretty sure Microsoft have quietly fixed this bug and not told anyone... Recently we have seen quite a few customer issues where using RDP cookies. So we decided to

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High Availability
High Availability
Exchange 2013 - Microsoft finally have an email solution designed for high availability and load balancing Malcolm Turnbull
OK, So maybe my blog title is a little harsh. The Microsoft Exchange products have been pretty scaleable since Exchange 2007. Exchange 2010 had some vast improvements and you could tell that the Microsoft engineers

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Application Management
Load balancing an internal web server behind two Microsoft TMG 2010 servers at layer 4 using DR mode Theo Garvey
We were looking at Microsoft's new TMG server and load balancing and after a search of the web found there was not really any Guide on how to load balance incoming web connections via two

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Application Management
Load Balancing Exchange 2010 CAS Array with HAProxy (Quick Guide) Aaron West
This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software. In my example I will be starting with a simple Debian net-install and building the HAProxy

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Print
Print
Load balancing Microsoft Print Server Rob Cooper
Microsoft Print Server provides a great way to share printers throughout your organisation, but when the print server falls over, the phone quickly starts to ring. By adding a load balancer and a second print

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HAProxy
Load balancing Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) with HAProxy Rob Cooper
Here at Loadbalancer.org we have recently started the certification process of our product with Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS). We already have several customers doing this with our units in Direct Routing mode but

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