Microsoft - Getting the most out of Microsoft applications and keeping critical environments always-on

This blog explains how load balancers enhance virtual desktop solutions in higher education.

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.

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 Information Services and Always On VPN.... Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely

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.

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 write a blog to explain the process in more detail. Why use centralized authentication? Better security,

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 of a load balancer. The CAS role that used to be in Exchange 2010 and

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.org appliance interacts with the Routing Token to reconnect user sessions to the correct Session

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 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy • SSL offload is handled by STunnel,

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 10 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy. • SSL offload is handled by

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.

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 installed Loadbalancer.org products as part of a new centralized Microsoft Exchange platform and they

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 is not open source. Not to be deterred, we checked the licence agreement with a

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 or on a private LAN in a remote branch office which connects to the load

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 many cases this kind of health check is adequate but for IIS this is often

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 or virtual based loadbalancer. WNLB Disadvantages * Causes switch flooding. Unicast mode relies on this to

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 of a load balancer. Exchange 2013 has been consolidated into two roles, these are: the

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 and Unified Messaging roles are optional and depend on the infrastructure and operational requirements. The

Wow, I just came to update this with the latest version and was shocked to notice the blog is almost 10 years old! — We keep finding new uses for our HAProxy Feedback Agent.. But, please let me know what you use it for in the comments section :-). So what's

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 investigate this and find out why. A couple of customer recently reported that when using

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 had put a lot of effort into trying to ease the painful mess that was

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 TMG servers to an internal NAT'ed web sever at Layer 4. The TMG servers are