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pmilot
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Feb 12, 2014

F5 SSL Offload for Exchange 2013

Hi,   I'm currently working on an large Exchange deployment (400,000 mailboxes) project where F5 will be used to load balance Exchange CAS servers and provide SSL offload.   Would anyone be abl...
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mikeshimkus_111
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Feb 12, 2014

Hi pmilot, SSL offloading is currently unsupported in Exchange 2013:

 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/39315d05-d764-4afa-b9c6-e341f7b14384/does-exchange-2013-cu1-now-support-ssl-offloading

 

As soon as it becomes supported again, we'll add offloading for 2013 to the F5 solutions.

 

thanks

 

Mike

 

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    pmilot
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    Feb 12, 2014
    Hi Mike, You are correct and yes I was aware. SSL Offloading was not the right term to describe our deployment. We are actually decrypting at the LTM/APM layer and re-encrypting for the CAS servers. Pat
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    hooleylist
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    Sep 08, 2014
    It looks like Exchange 2013 SP1 supports SSL offload: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn635115%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx http://www.jaapwesselius.com/2014/02/28/exchange-2013-sp1-ssl-offloading/ Aaron