Well it looks like Microsoft have indeed silently dropped support for mstshash cookies for load balancing as suspected in my last post. As detailed in the last post we had a call open with Microsoft and have just received the following response that confirms our suspicions that they have in fact dropped support for mstshash silently in favour of their Session Directory/Broker solutions.
Microsoft drops support for mstshash cookies?
Recently we have seen quite a few customer issues where using RDP cookies (mstshash cookies see – http://www.snakelegs.org for more details) seems to result in multiple active sessions over several RDP servers as shown below (Notice the user Rob on both TS Servers). So we decided to investigate this and find out why……..
Exchange 2013 – Microsoft finally have an email solution designed for high availability and load balancing
OK, So maybe my blog title is a little harsh. The Microsoft Exchange products have been pretty scaleable since Exchange 2007. Exchange 2010 had some vast improvements and you could tell that the Microsoft engineers had put a lot of effort into trying to ease the painful mess that was load balancing an Exchange 2007 cluster
HAProxy Email Alerts Guide
In this guide I show a very simple solution to get HAProxy email alerts configured using Logwatch. While the first part is aimed at users of our V7 appliance I think anyone wanting to get email alerts for HAProxy will also find this a good example. First from the WUI : 1.
HAProxy Alerts (for V7 Loadbalancer.org Appliance)
In this Blog I show a very simple solution to get Layer 7 (HAProxy) alerts configured using Logwatch. First from the WUI : 1.
Loadbalancer.org GmbH – Loadbalancer.org open German office and Exhibit at Cebit 2013
Loadbalancer.org are pleased to announce the opening of an office in Germany. Loadbalancer.org GmbH, Alt Pempelfort 2, 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany phone – +49 (0)30 920 383 6494 email – vertrieb@loadbalancer.org “ I have always wanted to open an office in Germany but felt I wanted a German speaking support team first ” states Malcolm Turnbull, Managing Director, Loadbalancer.org
Setting up HAProxy with Transparent Mode on Centos 6.x
Transparent mode with HAProxy allows you to see the IP Address of the clients computer while still having a high availability service using HAProxy. This posting shows how to setup a blank virgin installation of Centos 6.3 64bit minimum installation.
Loadbalancing an internal webserver behind two Microsoft TMG 2010 servers at layer4
We were looking at Microsoft’s new TMG server and loadbalancing and after a search of the web found there was not really any Guide on how to loadbalance incoming web connections via two TMG servers to an internal NAT’ed web sever at layer4.
Load Balancing Exchange 2010 CAS Array with HAProxy (Quick Guide)
This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software. To start with you will need a Linux system installed with either access to a HAProxy RPM/DEB or the tools to compile this yourself.
Updating your Version 6.X Loadbalancer.org Hardware to Version 7.4
Yes its true! Feel free to rub your eyes, do a double take, reload the page, get a cup of coffee to wake yourself up then reload the page again. ITS FINALLY HERE! Version 7.4 is available for your hardware Loadbalancer.org appliances! Continue reading for the installation procedure………… Firstly, thankyou all for being so patient,