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inbound mail load balanced? - 23.Nov.2009 9:46:42 AM

turbomcp

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hi guys
appreciate your feedback and past experience here
small question
scenrio:
1 cluster ccr and 2 hubs on same subnet.
recive and send connector(2 hubs on it).
mail is delivered using a filtering system and then to exchange.
assumptions:
outbound mail is load balanced and fault tolerance.
local mail is load balanced and fault tolerance.
Question:

is inbound mail load balanced.(im thinking no)

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

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RE: inbound mail load balanced? - 23.Nov.2009 9:59:01 AM

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Inbound isn't balanced.
You can NLB the HT if you need. You can set up additional interfaces and NLB those whilst leaving your internal facing ones basically unbalanced.

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RE: inbound mail load balanced? - 23.Nov.2009 10:03:09 AM

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See this on steps required for BL'ing inbound mail:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/planning-architecture/load-balancing-exchange-2007-sp1-hub-transport-servers-windows-network-load-balancing-technology-part1.html

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RE: inbound mail load balanced? - 24.Nov.2009 10:09:10 AM

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thanks guys
i appreciate and admire your passion for exchange
i am following that doc,awesome.

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RE: inbound mail load balanced? - 25.Nov.2009 10:47:46 AM

turbomcp

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small question regrading your article
you say add the second hub to the reieve connector
but i think you mean create another reciev connector that sits on the other hub right?

thought about another thing:
if i create one dedicated smtp for inbound email(to be load balanced)
and set anonymous to yes so mail could get in and smtp connections(external coming in) are distributed.
how can i create another smtp for relaying with diffrent permissions(authentications...) for applications?

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