I am not looking for automatic failover. I know that will take 3rd party software to do with e2k3.* *
All I want is to be able to notify a few key clients: "hey, hurricane! Per plan A please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (and yes we have both our domains registered) While a hurricane is NOT in town I need site2 to be able to send via site2's e2k3, and site1 via site1's. MOST of the time both sites are up just fine, running production, no problem. But up thru a month ago site2 needed site1 to do email (including automatic emails), and as of my little oops BOTH sites' need to be up. Replicating the GC *may* have fixed that. I will know soon. * It seems e2k7 can do failover though. Is this correct? On Feb 18, 2008 2:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you have envisioned is not a designed way for Exchange 03 to > function. A second set of mailboxes and emails is another database. Outlook > doesn't fail over to another database in the event of server1 failure. > > To do what you are thinking about takes a secondary software like > Doubletake to create a replication/fail over scenario. > > b. Is the new Exchange server in site 2, a DC/GC or is it just a member > server? > > B1. Did you create 2 sites in AD or is it just one Domain and AD doesn't > see one site different from the other(Just one big cloud) > > > > Greg > > > > *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 2:47 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: step 1 > > > > a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even > though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was > to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a > second smtp outgoing channel. > > b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked "this is an additional > server". > > c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I > > > Thanks > > > On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: > > > > a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability > > b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 > > b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after > > > > Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the > extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end > up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure > out the problem. > > > > Carl > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* step 1 > > OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become > unmanageable. > > My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... > > We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS > connection. One domain over both. > > I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some > reliability. > > RIGHT...! > > Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get "Exchange is > off-line" messages. > > 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization > we don't have)? > > 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? > > Thanks in advance > > G. Waleed Kavalec > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > -- > -- > > G. Waleed Kavalec > ------------------------- > "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are > in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, > from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue > but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, > whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." > -- Mark Twain > > > > > -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------- "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
