Category Archives: High Availability

Witness Server Boot Time, GetDagNetworkConfig and the pain of Exchange 2010 DR Tests

Posted on December 10, 2012 by ponzekap2

  So we recently had a client who wanted to perform a DR test of their Exchange 2010 DAG.  The DAG consisted of a single, all in one server in production, and a single all in one server in DR.  … Continue reading →

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How to View Disconnected Mailbox’s and Purge Disconnected Mailboxes from Exchange 2010

Posted on December 7, 2011 by ponzekap2

  To view disconnected mailbox’s, essentially mailboxes that have been deleted from their user accounts, you need to first ensure that Exchange has gone through and cleaned the database.  This is done to ensure that it marks that mailbox as … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 Database’s Fail to Replicate or Seed

Posted on September 20, 2011 by ponzekap2

  Recently had a colleague that ran into an issue with an Exchange 2010 migration.  He could fail over the mailbox databases with no issue to DR, but that’s where the trouble started. The production database would start to report … Continue reading →

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Users Receive a Login Prompt After a Database Failover in Exchange 2010

Posted on January 26, 2011 by ponzekap2

  When performing a database *over in Exchange 2010, especially a planned one, it is suppose to be as seamless as possible to the end user.  An Outlook user for example, will receive a small pop up informing them that … Continue reading →

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How to Update DAG Members to SP1 in Exchange 2010

Posted on September 23, 2010 by ponzekap2

  Exchange 2010 SP1 has been released, and comes with a slew of new and exciting features.  Since we are all clamoring to get this installed in our environments, we should discuss how exactly we upgrade the members of our … Continue reading →

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How to Manage a Datacenter Failure or Disaster Recovery Scenario in Exchange 2010 – Part 3

Posted on December 17, 2009 by ponzekap2

In Part 3 of this series, we are going to discuss how to failback to your primary site, after whatever condition that caused it to go offline in the first place occurred. So when we last left off, we have … Continue reading →

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How to Manage a Datacenter Failure or Disaster Recovery Scenario in Exchange 2010 – Part 2

Posted on December 10, 2009 by ponzekap2

  In the first article of this series, we went over some of the premises of Exchange 2010, Database Availability Groups or DAG’s, and Database Activation Coordinator.  We discussed our test environment, as well as how, in theory, an Exchange … Continue reading →

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How to Manage a Datacenter Failure or Disaster Recovery Scenario in Exchange 2010 – Part 1

Posted on December 3, 2009 by ponzekap2

  Exchange 2010 introduced several high availability and disaster recovery features, the one that receives the most publicity is the Database Availability Group (or DAG for short) feature.  In short a DAG allows replication of a mailbox, to other servers … Continue reading →

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Creating a Database Availability Group in Exchange 2010 – Part 3

Posted on July 7, 2009 by ponzekap2

  In Part 2 of this series, we created the Database Availability Group, and added both NYDAGNODE1 and LNDAGNODE1 to it. In Part 3 of this series, we are going to configure the network’s properly, and create some database’s for … Continue reading →

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Creating a Database Availability Group in Exchange 2010 – Part 2

Posted on July 1, 2009 by ponzekap2

  In Part 1 of this series, we went over the basic concepts of the Database Availability Group, or DAG, and then went into how to set up the Networking for the DAG.  In this next section, we’ll cover how … Continue reading →

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