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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability
Design a highly available Exchange 2013 messaging environment using realworld examples If you are a messaging professional who wants to learn to design a highly available Exchange 2013 environment, this book is for you. Although not a definite requirement, practical experience with Exchange 2010 is expected, without being a subject matter expert. Microsoft Exchange 2013 is the most widely used messaging platform in the world. Learning how to deploy it in a highly available manner is as fascinating and challenging as it is crucial for every organization. This practical hands-on guide will provide you with a number of clear scenarios and examples that will explain the mechanics behind the working of Exchange Server High Availability 2013 and how maximum availability and resilience can be achieved through it. For most organizations around the world, e-mail is their top mission-critical service. Throughout nearly 20 years of Exchange development, Microsoft has been improving the Exchange platform, making it more user-friendly and reliable with each release. From Windows clusters, to Cluster continuous replication and database availability groups, the progress of Exchange in terms of availability and resilience is extraordinary. Throughout this book, you will go through all the roles, components, and features that should be considered when addressing high availability. You will go through how to achieve high availability for the Client Access and Mailbox server roles, what's new in load balancing, site resilience, the new public folders, and much more. You will learn to successfully design, configure, and maintain a highly available Exchange 2013 environment by going through different examples and real-world scenarios, saving you and your company time and money, and eliminating errors.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
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April 3, 2014
I highly recommend it as the definitive resource for HA. But, I also recommend this book as the perfect reference for how many components of Exchange actually work. From Database Availability Groups to the inner workings of the Client Access Server. Although the book is only 266 pages long it’s packed full of great information!
I highly recommend it.
I highly recommend it.
May 22, 2014
A few weeks ago, I got the nice request from Packt Publishing to review a recently published book on Exchange 2013 High Availability (). Having co-authored the Exchange 2013 Cookbook myself last year, I was more than happy to do so; also because the author Nuno Mota is a good friend out of the Exchange community.
When thinking of the title and topic, my expectations were high. Being familiar with the Packt book style already, I know I could expect qualitative, concise, to the point, tested material. And in short, it fulfilled my satisfaction. The book start with diving directly in CAS high availability, followed by MBX high availability. Next chapter is talking about how to handle multiple site availability, followed by load balancing your transport mechanism. Here, I would personally changed the order of these 2 chapters here, but that’s just a detail. Other chapters talked about backup/restore, monitoring and some basics about AD and DNS as baseline for smooth Exchange operations. Again, to my opinion, these last 3 could have been left out, considering readers who are looking for in-depth information on high availability, probably already know the details around backup, monitoring and what your AD/DNS infra needs to look like. But that’s up to the reader to decide.
Talking a bit more about level of content, I’m more than happy about this. Each chapter is well-written, logically structured and all technical items I can think of were present. Load balancing is starting with the basic concept, moving over to Windows NLB compared to Hardware Load Balancers, and where the differences and benefits are of each solution. In the mailbox chapter, key subject of course is Database Availability Groups. What I really liked in this module is you are jumping right into the action. No theoretical stuff around DAG, but more direct troubleshooting tips & tricks, what abour reseeding,… On the other hand, I’m missing more detailed content on Public Folders in Exchange 2013 and especially on the HA part. It’s only 2 pages covering this. A bit too limited I guess. But then we are back in action with the transport chapter, and especially how well the concept of shadow emails and shadow redundancy is explained. Perfect job done!
All in all, another great book from Packt, completing the collection of Exchange 2013 titles (Powershell, Cookbook and HA). Yes, there are other books talking about the same content, even all content can be found in a single book like the famous unleashed series, but that might be overkill for a lot of Exchange admins. If you are already familiar with Exchange 2013 or previous versions, but looking to get the next push into high availability, this book is ideal to you. It’s close to 200 pages, taking just a few hours reading it from front-to-back (as I did on the way to and back from TechEd Houston 2014 just last week. Perfect reading material while on the plane…)
When thinking of the title and topic, my expectations were high. Being familiar with the Packt book style already, I know I could expect qualitative, concise, to the point, tested material. And in short, it fulfilled my satisfaction. The book start with diving directly in CAS high availability, followed by MBX high availability. Next chapter is talking about how to handle multiple site availability, followed by load balancing your transport mechanism. Here, I would personally changed the order of these 2 chapters here, but that’s just a detail. Other chapters talked about backup/restore, monitoring and some basics about AD and DNS as baseline for smooth Exchange operations. Again, to my opinion, these last 3 could have been left out, considering readers who are looking for in-depth information on high availability, probably already know the details around backup, monitoring and what your AD/DNS infra needs to look like. But that’s up to the reader to decide.
Talking a bit more about level of content, I’m more than happy about this. Each chapter is well-written, logically structured and all technical items I can think of were present. Load balancing is starting with the basic concept, moving over to Windows NLB compared to Hardware Load Balancers, and where the differences and benefits are of each solution. In the mailbox chapter, key subject of course is Database Availability Groups. What I really liked in this module is you are jumping right into the action. No theoretical stuff around DAG, but more direct troubleshooting tips & tricks, what abour reseeding,… On the other hand, I’m missing more detailed content on Public Folders in Exchange 2013 and especially on the HA part. It’s only 2 pages covering this. A bit too limited I guess. But then we are back in action with the transport chapter, and especially how well the concept of shadow emails and shadow redundancy is explained. Perfect job done!
All in all, another great book from Packt, completing the collection of Exchange 2013 titles (Powershell, Cookbook and HA). Yes, there are other books talking about the same content, even all content can be found in a single book like the famous unleashed series, but that might be overkill for a lot of Exchange admins. If you are already familiar with Exchange 2013 or previous versions, but looking to get the next push into high availability, this book is ideal to you. It’s close to 200 pages, taking just a few hours reading it from front-to-back (as I did on the way to and back from TechEd Houston 2014 just last week. Perfect reading material while on the plane…)
May 20, 2014
Learn to design a highly available Exchange messaging environment using Packt’s new book and eBook
Packt is pleased to announce the publication of its new book ‘Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability’: http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc..., a practical guide packed with examples to help readers build a highly available exchange 2013 environment. The print book comes in at 266 pages and is competitively priced at $54.99, while the eBook and Kindle versions are available for $32.04.
About the author:
Nuno Moto is a senior Microsoft consultant for a UK service provider and is responsible for designing and deploying Exchange and Office 365 solutions for the organisation. Besides this, he is passionate about the use of Lync, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Nanu has been a regular contributor to the exchange TechNet forums and maintains his personal as well as professional website with plenty of published articles. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional exchange award since 2012.
Microsoft Exchange Server is calendaring software, an e-mail server, and contact manager developed by Microsoft. It is a server program that runs on Windows Server and is part of the Microsoft Servers line of products. Windows Messaging, initially also called Microsoft Exchange, is an e-mail client that was included with Windows 95 (beginning with OSR2, 98 and Windows NT 4.0).
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability is a example-based guide that shows readers the importance of high availability and resilience. The book is packed with diagrams and scenarios that will help readers use the monitoring features of Exchange 2013.
The book covers basic aspects such as roles, components, and features, as well as advanced aspects such as load balancing, site resilience, and public folders. The book is a dedicated guide to Microsoft Exchange Professional, and readers are expected to have some practical experience with Exchange 2010.
The book consists of the following essential topics:
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: High Availability with the Client Access Server
Chapter 3: High Availability with the Mailbox Server
Chapter 4: Achieving Site Resilience
Chapter 5: Transport High Availability
Chapter 6: High Availability of Unified Messaging
Chapter 7: Backup and Recovery
Chapter 8: Monitoring Exchange
Chapter 9: Underlying Infrastructure
Packt Enterprise is a publishing division of Packt Publishing designed to serve the information needs of IT Professionals in the Enterprise space. Packt Enterprise also publishes books on Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Citrix, Java, Amazon, Google, and SAP technologies.
Packt is pleased to announce the publication of its new book ‘Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability’: http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc..., a practical guide packed with examples to help readers build a highly available exchange 2013 environment. The print book comes in at 266 pages and is competitively priced at $54.99, while the eBook and Kindle versions are available for $32.04.
About the author:
Nuno Moto is a senior Microsoft consultant for a UK service provider and is responsible for designing and deploying Exchange and Office 365 solutions for the organisation. Besides this, he is passionate about the use of Lync, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Nanu has been a regular contributor to the exchange TechNet forums and maintains his personal as well as professional website with plenty of published articles. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional exchange award since 2012.
Microsoft Exchange Server is calendaring software, an e-mail server, and contact manager developed by Microsoft. It is a server program that runs on Windows Server and is part of the Microsoft Servers line of products. Windows Messaging, initially also called Microsoft Exchange, is an e-mail client that was included with Windows 95 (beginning with OSR2, 98 and Windows NT 4.0).
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability is a example-based guide that shows readers the importance of high availability and resilience. The book is packed with diagrams and scenarios that will help readers use the monitoring features of Exchange 2013.
The book covers basic aspects such as roles, components, and features, as well as advanced aspects such as load balancing, site resilience, and public folders. The book is a dedicated guide to Microsoft Exchange Professional, and readers are expected to have some practical experience with Exchange 2010.
The book consists of the following essential topics:
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: High Availability with the Client Access Server
Chapter 3: High Availability with the Mailbox Server
Chapter 4: Achieving Site Resilience
Chapter 5: Transport High Availability
Chapter 6: High Availability of Unified Messaging
Chapter 7: Backup and Recovery
Chapter 8: Monitoring Exchange
Chapter 9: Underlying Infrastructure
Packt Enterprise is a publishing division of Packt Publishing designed to serve the information needs of IT Professionals in the Enterprise space. Packt Enterprise also publishes books on Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Citrix, Java, Amazon, Google, and SAP technologies.
May 20, 2014
A very well structured good. It shows readers the importance of high availability and resilience. The book is packed with diagrams and scenarios that will help readers use the monitoring features of Exchange 2013.
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc...
The book covers basic aspects such as roles, components, and features, as well as advanced aspects such as load balancing, site resilience, and public folders.
The book explains core concepts of MS Exchange in a very intuitive way. Great book to have if you want to understand basic administrative and configuring tasks involving MS Exchange server earn to successfully design, configure, and maintain a highly available Exchange 2013 environment by going through different examples and real-world scenarios.
I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc...
The book covers basic aspects such as roles, components, and features, as well as advanced aspects such as load balancing, site resilience, and public folders.
The book explains core concepts of MS Exchange in a very intuitive way. Great book to have if you want to understand basic administrative and configuring tasks involving MS Exchange server earn to successfully design, configure, and maintain a highly available Exchange 2013 environment by going through different examples and real-world scenarios.
I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
May 20, 2014
I went through this book with expectations because I own a similar book and but I found it very complete and easy to understand. The book is designed to be a quick reference when I need a particular task, not read cover-to-cover - although I did. . I think it is great that they follow the format making it easy for me to find what I need to get done quickly and efficiently.
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc...
It is very well organized in logical progression of working with Exchange, especially to understand the influence of the new architecture of Exchange 2013 in high availability. Overall this book and the others using the same format seem to work very well for an administrator who wishes to get the information needed quickly and move on to their other tasks, overall I am pleased with this book.
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc...
It is very well organized in logical progression of working with Exchange, especially to understand the influence of the new architecture of Exchange 2013 in high availability. Overall this book and the others using the same format seem to work very well for an administrator who wishes to get the information needed quickly and move on to their other tasks, overall I am pleased with this book.
May 27, 2014
I highly recommend this book for the Admin(s) who have at least basic understating of Exchange 2013 and want to gain more In-depth knowledge about High-Availability of Exchange server in all respects. The book contains only about 200 pages and 8 chapter with really hands-on practical stuff, so you will not get bored while reading this book.
The book covers availability of all the server roles so you can design a highly available messaging environment. A quick snapshot about the changes introduced in high availability of Exchange 2013 provide a good platform for a reader to refresh and will benefit the reader in building the foundation.
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc...
The book covers availability of all the server roles so you can design a highly available messaging environment. A quick snapshot about the changes introduced in high availability of Exchange 2013 provide a good platform for a reader to refresh and will benefit the reader in building the foundation.
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exc...
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