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You have an Exchange server (or cluster) that communicates to the outside world through a mail relay (also called smarthost in Microsoft terminology), usually in a DMZ. You’d now like to give some high availability to this infrastructure, that could ideally cover a disaster recovery plan. This can be achieved doubling servers on a second […]

Tags: Exchange, high availability, Mail, Microsoft

You are about to migrate mail servers to Exchange 2013? Here are a few issues I came across while migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013. Please read first. 1/ I had to add all Exchange servers DNS entries in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, since email got stuck in queues. I was also getting timeouts while sending emails (some sessions would […]

Tags: Exchange, Mail, Microsoft