Administration
HOW TO: Change IP addresses on a cluster
A “Re-IP-ing” project around the corner where you need to change IP addresses on all hosts in a subnet? Or just a cluster? When you…
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High Availability
Posts related to clustering and high availability, including Windows Failover Clusters, Microsoft Clustering Service, Exchange clusters and Exchange server HA
Administration
Creating an additional SMTP Virtual Server in a EVS
Creating an additional SMTP Virtual Server in a non-clustered environment is pretty straightforward. The same task is a little more complicated in a clustered environment.…
Exchange 2003
Problem creating EVS (System Attendant Resource)
When creating the System Attendant resource for a new EVS, you get the following error: Invalid network addresswin 32 Error code C00706ab Creation of SA…
Exchange 2007
Exchange 12 to axe Active/Active Clustering?
Oliver Rist’s Enterprise Windows column in InfoWorld talks about many facts/announcements related to the Exchange Server product roadmap – most of it discussed/announced at TechEd…
Exchange 2003
Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource Class – Reply from Alain Lissoir
The ClusApi.h file, which is part of the PlatformSDK should contain this… typedef enum CLUSTER_RESOURCE_STATE { ClusterResourceStateUnknown = -1, ClusterResourceInherited = 0, ClusterResourceInitializing = 1,…
Exchange 2003
Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource class
The WMI ExchangeClusterResource class has 5 properties: 1) Name: returns name of Exchange cluster resource 2) Type: specifies the cluster resource type (IP Address, network…
Exchange 2003
Running 3-4 node cluster on iSCSI
Clusters with more than 2 nodes using iSCSI storage are not officially supported by Microsoft or NetApp. Yet. Probably being tested in labs. Added 3rd…
Exchange 2003
Adding IMAP4 Virtual Server to Cluster takes cluster group offline
You’ve just built a shiny new Windows Server 2003 cluster, installed Exchange Server 2003, created an Exchange Virtual Server (EVS) and tested MAPI, HTTP, Cluster…
Exchange 2003
MSDTC Resource and Confusing KB 301600
Microsoft KB 301600 talks about how to install the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) resource on a Windows Server 2003 cluster. STEP 8: In Dependencies,…