MS Exchange - 10/30/2007

With 2/3 of the class present, we forged ahead and covered what we should have covered last week: Lab 4. Lab 4 is important because in it we study the difference between regular server clustering and Microsoft's Network Load Balancing. Remember that NLB is able to see which servers are working harder than the others and can then route traffic to the less busy ones. Clustering is a little dumber (duhrrrrrr) and only splits the loads up in a round-robin pattern.

We also discussed the concepts of Front End and Back End servers, and their relation to an Exchange organization. An easy way to keep these straight is to think of them in terms of fast food employees. You have employees that work the front, and employees that work the back. The ones in the front are the ones that actually talk to customers (or clients) and the ones in the back are the ones with their fingers in the hamburger (gross).

Homework:

• Lab 4, pg 53: Lab questions 1-4