Preface

For most organizations around the world, e-mail is the top mission-critical service. During the course of twenty years of Exchange development, Microsoft has been improving the Exchange platform, making it more user friendly and reliable with each release. From Windows clusters, through Cluster Continuous Replication, to Database Availability Groups, the progress of Exchange in terms of availability and resilience is extraordinary.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability is a hands-on, practical guide that provides you with a number of clear illustrations and concepts that will help you understand how this new version works and how you can achieve the most out of it in terms of availability and resilience.

Throughout this book, you will go through all the roles, components, and features that should be considered when addressing high availability. You will learn to successfully design and configure a highly available Exchange 2013 environment by going through different examples and real-world scenarios, saving you and your company's time, money, and eliminating errors.

With every chapter, you will go through everything you need to know in order to successfully design and configure a highly available Exchange 2013 environment. Each chapter can be used as a reference, or it can be read from the beginning to the end, allowing consultants/administrators to build a solid and highly available Exchange 2013 environment.