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Well, I'm not suffering for anything but thanks for asking. I'm writing my second Enterprise Messaging Admin exam and I'm doing alot of research at the moment. Which is why I am so interested in various ways to improve performance. Got any suggestions for me?
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Well, I'm not suffering for anything but thanks for asking. I'm writing my second Enterprise Messaging Admin exam and I'm doing alot of research at the moment. Which is why I am so interested in various ways to improve performance. Got any suggestions for me?

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I'm busy doing some research on various ways to increase performance on exchange servers and I have a question. Will making your exchange server a global catalog and a secondary DNS server increase performance? My question is based on the fact that exchange authenticates the end user with AD first and then routes the message via DNS.<br />
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If you have any other information on ways that I can boost performance then please let me know!
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I'm busy doing some research on various ways to increase performance on exchange servers and I have a question. Will making your exchange server a global catalog and a secondary DNS server increase performance? My question is based on the fact that exchange authenticates the end user with AD first and then routes the message via DNS.

If you have any other information on ways that I can boost performance then please let me know!

Will making your exchange server a secondary DNS and Global Catalog server increase performance?

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.