Tag: Exchange Clustering

This is a bit of a specific topic, as it only affects people who are trying to use the MTA in their cluster (for mail delivery back to 5.5 in mixed-mode, or to foreign systems not connected with SMTP, etc) *AND* have >4 nodes in their cluster. There’s a new KB out that will help…

Rod posts today about the strange (and sometimes frustrating) behavior where outbound SMTP connections from an Exchange cluster originate from the host IP address rather than from the virtualized IP resource associated with the Exchange Virtual Server. Great post and this is a common question on the newsgroups, etc. Scott Landry also talked about the technical…

KB article came out the other day on this sort of obscure scenario, but interesting to know about in any case: KB.896617: “The Exchange Information Store service stops responding when the Exchange Information Store service is shutting down or the Exchange Cluster server is performing a failover process”. Couple of things to note: This only…

I blogged about KB.898364 briefly when it was created, but over this past weekend there was a flurry of newsgroup posts about putting clustered Exchange onto cluster nodes that are also domain controllers. Several responses referenced KB.281662 (how to cluster AD domain controllers), which didn’t very clearly specify not to do this with Exchange. That’s…

Still catching up on my queue of blog posts, I think that all of the documentation around MSDTC and Exchange clusters has now been updated (see earlier posts for details). Here’s what I’ve got: KB.301600 has been updated to detail Exchange 2003 not requiring a dedicated group for MSDTC and that network DTC is not required…

Better late than never, here is a partial list of the cool new things in Windows 2003 SP1 clustering (yeah yeah, I know Windows 2003 SP1 has been out for quite a while now… just shows you how far behind I am in my blog posting ) Quorum replication algorithm redone so it’s more robust….

A newly released “flash” with a collection of information about Multi-site Data Replication and Exchange:   Introduction The Exchange Product Group has received numerous queries regarding deploying Exchange in a Multi-site/data replication environment. In order to respond to those queries, we have published a white-paper on deployment guidelines and a Knowledge Base article outlining support…

The Exchange 2003 Deployment Guide has just been updated (at this link) to reflect the best practice recommendations for MSDTC that were revealed in this posting (also here on the EHLO blog). Also, the related articles KB.312316 (“Setup does not install Exchange on a cluster if the MSDTC resource is not running”) and KB.301600 (“How to configure…

Recently the oft-referenced KB.810986 that talks about the support policy for clustering was refocused to encompass only the support policy for 3rd party cluster software (hence the updated title: “Microsoft support policy for Exchange Server installations that are running with a third-party Cluster service”). But, if you’re a careful observer of the collection of Exchange clustering…

Scott Schnoll, longtime MVP and now a Technical Writer with Microsoft, gave an “Exchange Server 2003 Cluster Deployments: Best Practices” talk at ITForum 2004. The presentation is available online in full! Here’s the link: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=10 (credit where it’s due: I ran across this link at Mark’s blog)