Introduction In the first part of this multi-part article uncovering Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups (DAGs); we had a look at what Exchange 2007 and earlier versions provided when it comes to native high availability functionality for Mailbox servers. In this part of this multi-part series, I will provide the steps necessary in order to […]
High Availability Changes in Exchange Server 2010? With Exchange 2010, we no longer have the concept of Local Continuous Replication (LCR), Single Copy Clusters (SCC), Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) or Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) for that matter. WHAT!? I hear some of you yell! Yes I am not kidding here. But to be more specific, […]
This is how to configure Multi Path I/O for iSCSI on Windows 2012 Server. I want to use this for our Hyper-V implementation to increase through put and redundancy. Setup iSCSI NICs In this server I have eight NICS, I have chosen to use two NICS for iSCSI and here you can see I have […]
Client Access Server Array Pre-Requisites Two or more Exchange Server 2010 Client Access Servers can be configured as a CAS array using NLB as long they are not also installed as Mailbox servers that are members of a Database Availability Group (DAG). The reason is that DAG members utilize Windows Failover Clustering, which can’t co-exist with NLB. […]
Since Exchange 2010 CAS servers now handle all internal and external client traffic to Exchange mailbox servers including Outlook MAPI traffic, the need for a highly available CAS array is critical to your design. So how do you load balance MAPI traffic? I found a some useful bits of information to help out: Load balance […]
The current server already has several drives set up. Normally when we set it up and assigned a drive letter, it will automatically created an admin share of \\SERVER_NAME\[drive_letter]$ if your are missing D$ you can create that by net share D$=D:\ if you get any issue delete and recreate NET SHARE D$ /delete
To workaround this issue on previous versions of ESX/ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0: Power down the source virtual machine. Backup the .vmx file of the source virtual machine. Change the value of the disk.EnableUUID parameter to False. For more information, see Tips for editing a .vmx file (1714). Save the changes made to the .vmx file. Clone the virtual machine again. If these steps […]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817379 Disable the forms-based authentication for the Exchange virtual directory To create a secondary virtual directory for Exchange that is based on steps 1 through 7 of the following procedure, make sure that forms-based authentication is disabled for the Exchange virtual directory before you make the copy. Before you follow these steps, disable forms-based authentication […]
Upgrade to 2008 Enterprise Syntex: DISM /online /Set-Edition:<Version> /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX Example with trial key: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerEnterprise /ProductKey:489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y To determine the installed version of Windows you can use: DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition To determine possible versions you can upgrade to: DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions
Use the Shell to re-create the Discovery system mailbox Delete the SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9} user account from Active Directory, if it exists. By default, Exchange Server 2013 Setup creates the mailbox in the Users container in Active Directory. For details about how to delete a user account from Active Directory, see Delete a User Account. Prepare Active Directory […]