Sean, You will find that the Exchange replication piece of Double-Take is not actually built into the regular console (at least it wasn't when I used it), it is a separate stand alone app. It works great, but it somewhat negates your "everyone already knows it" argument. As for SCR and the use of it, anyone who can access TechNet has full access to how to use it. There are literally step by step instructions on how to configure and use SCR on TechNet. I prefer that my people don't necessarily know the answer, but know where to find it. YMMV, TVK
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is anyone using SCR for Exchange 2007? Tim, I'm interested in your take on switching from DoubleTake to SCR. We're still on Exchange 2003 with no replication solution in place. We're planning on moving to Exchange 2007 early next year (or possibly 2010, depending on release date) and implementing DR/HA along with it. We use DoubleTake quite extensively for various systems. I've discussed using DoubleTake for Exhcange 20xx when the time comes or using SCR (or some iteration of built in replication). The one argument point for implementing DoubleTake is that most all of our staff are familiar with it, and could step in during a failover scenario. Whereas using SCR for example, may require some in-depth knowledge of Exchange (for which there are only a couple of us). I've argued, based on my limited knowledge of Exchange 2007, that the failover process is scripted, and therefore could be built/tested beforehand. As long as we had detailed documentation for executing failover, most of our staff should be able to follow instructions and initiate failover. This would be for those rare times that the few folks with Exchange knowledge were unavailable. I'm not sure what your environment is like, but did you have to consider anything similar when making the switch? If so, do you feel confident that any of your staff could handle a failover situation should you not be available? - Sean On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <tvanderk...@expl.com<mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com>> wrote: I use it. I was using Double-Take prior to SCR and making the switch is saving me more than switching to GEICO. It was very simple to set up and works great. TVK From: David Baca [mailto:dbaca.gr...@yahoo.com<mailto:dbaca.gr...@yahoo.com>] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Is anyone using SCR for Exchange 2007? I would like to hear some thoughts about it. I am currently using neverfail software but the maintenance costs are pretty high. I was wondering if anyone had experience with a successful deployment of scr and whether they would recommend it. Regards, David ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
