Chapter 7. Microsoft Exchange

There is a phrase in my house that "If momma isn't happy, then nobody is happy."

In today's datacenter, one might say, "If email is down, then everybody is down."

Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the most common email platforms that run on Windows Server for most datacenters. Similar to the history we discussed in Chapter 6 regarding the complexities of early clustering, the availability and data protection methods for the early releases of Exchange (4.0 through 2000) had been considered by many to be challenging. But the last few generations have seen the product go from being a well-behaving MSCS clustered resource to having a complete portfolio of built-in availability mechanisms that are now part of the core ...

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