Welcome to Part 3 of Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering. In Part 1, I discussed what Majority Node Set Clustering is and how it works with Exchange Site Resilience when you have one DAG member in a Primary Site and one DAG member in a Failover Site. In Part 2, […]
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Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering. In Part 1, I discussed what Majority Node Set Clustering is and how it works with Exchange Site Resilience when you have one DAG member in a Primary Site and one DAG member in a Failover Site. In this Part, […]
Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering – Part 1
I’ve talked about this topic in some of my other articles but wanted to create an article that talks specifically about this model and show several different examples in a Database Availability Group (DAG)’s tolerance for node and File Share Witness (FSW) failure. Many people don’t properly understand how the Majority Node Set Clustering Model […]
Exchange 2007 UM to Exchange 2010 UM Partial Upgrades and Redirects
General Information There’s two ways to migrate to Exchange 2010 UM: Full Upgrade Partial Upgrade In a Full Upgrade scenario, you are doing a big bang migration for your Exchange 2007 UM users and moving them all to Exchange 2010 UM at the same time. At the same time, you are replacing your Exchange 2007 […]
Export Spoken Name in Exchange 2010 UM
I was asked by a client recently if there was anyway to export the Spoken Name in Exchange UM to a WAV file. You can’t export this to a WAV file but you can export it to a WMV-9 file which you can then use other means to convert it to a WAV file. Now […]
Exchange 2010 Site Resilience, Multiple DAG IPs, and Cluster Resources
Exchange 2010 allows us to have Database Availability Group (DAG) members in several AD Sites. For every subnet a DAG member’s MAPI NIC is in, we must obtain a DAG IP. This DAG IP is a separate IP than is located on the MAPI NICs themselves. We take this DAG IP to the DAG using […]
Exchange 2007/2010 Connection Filtering and Transport Configuration
Connection Filtering Basics (Blocking Connection to the Server) Many of you know what Connection Filtering is in Exchange. It allows you to control what IPs are allowed and what IPs are blocked. Taking a look at the following image, we can see exactly what parts of Anti-Spam utilize the connection filtering agent. In the following […]
Exchange 2010 SP1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
Many will be upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1 soon. Many of you also have Blackberry Enterprise Server. RIM has provided a pre-installation guide for Exchange 2010 here. I wanted to touch on one of these pre-installation steps. This is where we increase the maximum number of connections to the Address Book service. The specific guide […]
Changes in Exchange 2010 SP1 Administrator Audit Logging
Exchange 2010 SP1 changes the way Administrator Audit Logging (AAL) works to some degree. To see how Exchange 2010 RTM Administrator Audit Logging works, check out a great article by my fellow MVP Neil Hobson here. This article is not going to explain what AAL is, just what the changes are. In Exchange 2010 RTM, […]
Exchange 2010 Database Activation Coordination (DAC)
Introduction and Database Activation Coordination (DAC) Support Exchange 2010 introduced a vast amount of changes to the High Availability model with the addition of the Database Availability Group (DAG). Some features of the DAG are having up to 16 members, automatic database *over to another site as long as you still have quorum, and much […]
