Exchange Server 2003 Clustering Quality Assurance Checklist Now available for download here Exchange Server 2003 Cluster Configuration Checklist Discussion of the top cluster configuration issues developed through the operational experience of Microsoft IT that can adversely affect the performance and stability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. By addressing the cluster configuration concerns outlined in this…
Tag: Exchange Clustering
More Exchange 2003 SP1 Cluster Upgrade solutions
In addition to the “Trouble upgrading your cluster to Exchange 2003 SP1?” steps posted to the blog a few weeks ago, here’s another error I’ve seen posted on the newsgroups recently and a few common solutions: The network path was not found. Facility: Win32 ID no : c0070035 Microsoft Exchange Cluster Administrator Extension Generally we…
Trouble Upgrading your Exchange 2003 Cluster to SP1?
Note: This information is now available as a public KB article: KB.867624 Some folks on the newsgroups are having difficulty getting their Exchange 2003 clusters upgraded to Exchange 2003 SP1. One example of an error that’s been reported: Not able to upgrade the EVS because of error c1037b44:”Version of Exchange on this machine does not…
Host Headers and Exchange Clusters
Here’s another topic that seems to come up on a fairly regular basis: how and when to use host-headers with Exchange HTTP protocol virtual servers. Host headers are a great invention: they let you bind an IIS protocol virtual server directly to the unique combination of IP address, TCP port, and the host header — the…
Paul Robichaux on Geoclustering
Paul Robichaux commented on Geoclustering in last week’s edition of the Exchange and Outlook Update. He points out that it can be quite expensive, but that it can also be a very good (and this is key: Supported/Tested) way to span your Exchange servers across multiple sites to prepare for disaster avoidance. There was some…
Cluster upgrades
Carol has posted the text of an upcoming KB article that details a newly-supported method for upgrading clusters from W2k/E2k to W2k3/E2k3 (evict and reload method, essentially) over at the Exchange Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/05/07/127968.aspx
SSL on non-default HTTP protocol virtual servers
I’ve run into this set of questions about 5 times in the past week alone, so I figure it’s worth a blog entry… Exchange setup on a standalone (non-clustered) server creates entries an HTTP protocol entry — at approximately this location: CN=<theVS#>,CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=<yourEVSname>,CN=<yourAGname>,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=<yourORGname>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<yourDOMAINname>. The VS# at the front of the DN will be “CN=1” for the…
IsAlive function on Exchange 200x clusters
I so wish I was able to go to Miami this year… Can you even imagine a better 4 day lineup than this: http://www.clubspace.com/ ?! But back to the topic at hand. First, let me explain IsAlive a bit, then I’ll touch on how Exchange does it. In Windows “MSCS” clusters, one of the big things…
Interesting Issue: E2k3 Cluster setup.exe prompts for 5.5 Site credentials
Exchange 200x clusters install in two separate phases: In the first phase, the administrator runs SETUP.EXE on the CD. The Exchange binaries are copied from the CD to the local harddrive, some IIS bindings are created, miscellaneous local-to-the-node stuff happens. A number of things are read from the AD, but little (if anything) is actually…