Load Balancing Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

I’m not sure how many of you have considered Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) yet, however the new functionality such as VOIP, Web Conferencing, and Application Sharing are starting to attract some real visibility within the Unified Communications space. In fact, Gartner places Microsoft squarely in the leader’s quadrant for their UC 2007 Magic Quadrant.   http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/nortel/150273.html   Providing high availability and scalability for an OCS deployment is becoming more and more critical to the enterprises are looking to adopt OCS as part of their communications strategy. Interestingly enough, Microsoft has gone as far as requiring the use of a “hardware load balancer” for...

HP whitepaper on SharePoint Acceleration using F5 gear

A few months back we participated in a round of "best practices" testing surrounding accelerating SharePoint with HP. The results were extremely impressive, and are documented in this whitepaper. http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/library/GetPage.aspx?pageid=570023&statusid=0&audienceid=0&ccid=0&langid=121 The original purpose of this testing was to truly determine if the SharePoint acceleration technologies, specifically the one developed by F5, improved performance enough to be built into HP's suggested architectures. Needless to say, the testing went very well and the results speak for themselves. Take a look! I happened to be one of the two F5 engineers that were dedicated to this project, and I have to mention that...