Rockerduck CAS Addition and Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1

This week I bring exciting news for users on ROCKERDUCK and to all of our Exchange 2010 clients.

Over the past week ROCKERDUCK has experienced a growth of 15% of our user base in a week. Fifteen percent may not seem like much, but roughly equates to about 230 new mailboxes in less than a week. Although ROCKERDUCK was designed and scaled to handle the number of mailboxes, we’ve noticed larger RPC response times for users. Upon investigation, it was determined that the slower response time was due to the increased processing load on the CAS servers for PST uploads and a larger amount of Mac Outlook users.

To resolve the issue, we’ve added an additional CAS server to ROCKERDUCK, RDCAS4. Currently RDCAS4 is undergoing a stress test to ensure it has been properly configured and can handle the load that it is expected to carry.

RDCAS4 is expected to be placed into production by 3/22/12.

Finally, we’ve approved the installation of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 across our Exchange 2010 USA clusters. Primarily, Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 includes bug fixes for iOS users and reoccurring calendar events. We anticipate installation of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 in the following order:

3/26/12 Monday: LOUIE

3/27/12 Monday: ROCKERDUCK

Travis Sheldon
VP, Network Operations, ExchangeDefender
(877) 546-0316 x757
travis@ownwebnow.com