Cached Exchange Mode in a Remote Desktop Session Host environment

Written by Misha Hanin

Cached Exchange Mode in a Remote Desktop Session Host environment: planning considerations is a technical whitepaper recently released by Microsoft.

Historically, Microsoft Outlook has only been supported in an RDSH environment when it is deployed in Online Mode and connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server. This is still the recommended configuration for Microsoft Outlook 2010 when it is deployed in an RDSH environment. However, customers who deploy Outlook 2010 now have the supported option of enabling Cached Exchange Mode when Outlook 2010 is installed in a Remote Desktop environment. Cached Exchange Mode might be ideal for deployments in which Outlook is connecting over a high latency connection to an Exchange server that is located remotely. For the relatively few users who access Outlook through a remote desktop, this might be the ideal configuration. However, Online Mode against the Exchange server is still the most scalable and optimized configuration for large deployments.

This white paper covers three major areas that you should consider when you deploy Outlook 2010 with Cached Exchange Mode in a Remote Desktop environment:

Storage footprint
Performance impact
Networked Storage

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Cached Exchange Mode in a Remote Desktop Session Host environment

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» Announcing Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2

» Publishing Outlook Anywhere Using NTLM Authentication With Forefront TMG or Forefront UAG

» Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: High Availability Deep Dive (including changes introduced by SP1)

» Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions