Microsoft Exchange 2013 High Availability电子书

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started

Defining high availability and resilience

Availability

Resilience

Introducing the new Exchange architecture

Looking at the past

Exchange 2000/2003

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2010

Exchange 2013

Summary

2. High Availability with the Client Access Server

Removing session affinity

Connecting to Outlook

Load balancing and CAS arrays

The do nothing method

Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB)

DNS Round Robin

Hardware/virtual load balancers

Layer 4 with a single namespace and IP address

Layer 4 with multiple namespaces and IP addresses

Layer 7 with a single namespace and IP address

Selecting the correct method

The Autodiscover service

Explaining digital certificates for Exchange

Listing best practices

Summary

3. High Availability with the Mailbox Server

Reducing input/output operations per second

Automatically recovering after storage failures

Managed Store

Automatic Reseed

Configuring folders for databases and volumes

Mounting volume folders

Mounting database folders

Creating a database directory structure

Creating a mailbox database

Checking the database creation

Testing AutoReseed

Revisiting Database Availability Groups

Best copy selection changes

The DAG Management Service

The DAG network auto-configuration

Single copy alert enhancements

Lagged copy enhancements

Dynamic Quorum

Majority Node Set clustering

Windows Server 2012

Introducing modern Public Folders

Best practices

Explaining the Offline Address Book

Best practices

Summary

4. Achieving Site Resilience

Achieving site resilience for client access server

Global namespace

Achieving site resilience for the Mailbox server

Scenario 1 – active/passive

Scenario 2 – active/active

Scenario 3 – third datacenter

Windows Azure

Using Datacenter Activation Coordination (DAC)

Enabling the DAC mode

Deciding where to place witness servers

Summary

5. Transport High Availability

Servicing of the transport pipeline

Front End Transport service routing

Mailbox Transport service routing

Improving on transport high availability

Revisiting shadow redundancy

Creating shadow e-mails

E-mails arriving from outside the boundary of transport high availability

E-mails sent outside the boundary of transport high availability

E-mails arriving from a Mailbox server within the boundary of transport high availability

Shadow redundancy with legacy Hub Transport servers

Configuring shadow redundancy

Maintaining shadow e-mails

Shadow redundancy after an outage

Safety Net

The working of Safety Net

Resubmitting e-mails from Safety Net

Resubmitting e-mails from Shadow Safety Net

Making an inbound and outbound e-mail flow resilient

Outbound

Inbound

Non-Exchange internal e-mails

Inbound Internet e-mails

Summary

6. High Availability of Unified Messaging

Introducing the new features of UM

Architectural changes

Unified Messaging ports

Unified Messaging availability

Exchange servers

IP gateways

Incoming calls

Outgoing calls

SIP load balancing

Summary

7. Backup and Recovery

Understanding the importance of backups

Listing vital components to back up

Client Access Servers

Mailbox servers

Databases and transaction logs

Offline address book

Customizations and logfiles

Unified contact store

Exploring Windows Integrated Backup

Exploring System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

Using DPM to protect Exchange

Installing the DPM server

Allocating storage

Installing DPM Agents on Exchange servers

Creating and configuring protection groups

DPM considerations

Replacing a backup with database availability groups

Planning for disaster recovery

Recovering a mailbox

Recovering a lost server

Explaining database portability in disaster recovery situations

Dial tone portability

Recovering Public Folders

Recovering deleted items

Recovering deleted items post retention

Recovering deleted Public Folders using Outlook

Recovering deleted Public Folders using PowerShell

Recovering deleted Public Folders post retention

Summary

8. Monitoring Exchange

Introducing Managed Availability

Exploring Managed Availability components

Probes

Monitors

Responders

Health

Customizing Managed Availability

Enabling or disabling a health set

Using the Exchange 2013 SCOM Management Pack

Summary

9. Underlying Infrastructure

Active Directory

Domain name system

Integrating DNS with Active Directory

Explaining the importance of a network

Using high available storage

Benefiting through virtualization

Backup and restore

High availability

Hyper-V and VMware

Single Exchange on a virtual cluster

Resilient Exchange on a virtual cluster

Other features

Summary

Index