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Load Balancing in Exchange 2016

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Ross Smith IV
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Oct 08, 2015
Like Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 does not require session affinity at the load balancing layer. To understand this statement better, and see how this impacts your designs, we need to look at how...
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Oct 22, 2015
I don't see any different affect on Exchange on using any one of these:

Single Namespace / Layer 7 (No Session Affinity)

Single Namespace / Layer 7 with Session Affinity


Why do we need Session Affinity here, is it like redundent mechanism to enforce the same CAS to respond everytime even when We don't need to do that.