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I did a one day workshop on March 15 in Orlando at the Exchange Connections conference. As usual, it was a great deal of fun. However, for some reason, I never posted this blog entry until today.   Anyways, I decided to put some of the key bits of information out here for others to enjoy. I hope it helps everyone.   First off, we need to understand that putting up a CCR cluster requires several steps, which can be combined into four categories. Configure the Hardware Install and Configure the Operating System Install and Configure the Failover Cluster Feature … Continue reading Exchange Server 2007 CCR on Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster

One of the major changes moving forward into Windows Server 2008 R2 is that some of the tools are being deprecated (I love that word) in favor of PowerShell. Some people just screamed, “Wooo hooo, fantastic!” while others screamed, “Great, now I have to learn another tool after investing all of those years in the tools of the past!” I, personally, take the first view point in that this is great news. It now forces me to start using PowerShell more than just in Exchange Server 2007. PowerShell will be the main tool in the future, so it is important … Continue reading PowerShell and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters

During my booth duty at the Failover Clustering booth, I must have heard questions regarding this topic about once per hour if not more. The official stance: Microsoft does not support the virtualization of Exchange Server 2007 roles at this time. Why not? Well, Microsoft does not have a virtualization platform capable of supporting 64-bit virtual machines at this time. Hyper-V is not an RTM product. Whether Microsoft will change the stance once Hyper-V RTMs is another question, and I don’t have an answer. Also, keep in mind, Microsoft is not about to support a third party’s virtualization platform because … Continue reading Exchange Server 2007 and Virtualization

The cluster team at Microsoft has restarted their blog with a new dedication focused on Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing. I have been promised, by some of the powers that be, that they will do their best to provide responses to all appropriate comments posted to their blog entries. Also, from my experience, these are some really wonderful people and they really want to help everyone understand what failover clustering is all about and how your organization can benefit from implmenting failover clustering. Anyways, I recommend that you visit them. While I am at it, I would … Continue reading Microsoft Official Cluster Team Blog