How to create IIS (webserver) cluster / Highly Available IIS for Exchange Services (ARR)

Ok, so in my previous guide we made Exchange OWA/Autodiscovery highly available via ARR which is module inside IIS. We installed ARR inside separate VM in DMZ and everything is working nice. But, now we have machine with IIS and ARR on it as single point of failure. We now need to make our IIS highly available, so if we need to for example apply patches to it, our Exchange services don’t go down.

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Making Exchange Services Highly Available (OWA, ActiveSync…)

Ok, so we created DAG for Exchange and we now have Database HA/Redundancy for our Exchange server. In this guide we are going to make our OWA and Autodiscovery Highly Available in a specific way – through ARR.

This isn’t mandatory, you can make you OWA, Autodiscovery available in other ways, but the way I’m going to show you in this guide you will get some extra security and additional protection layer for your Exchange. In package with HA ofcourse.

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