Rolling upgrade with a twist
We've just moved our Exchange 5.5 Cluster on Windows NT 4.0, SP6a from fiber based storage to scsi based storage. I evicted a node and rebuilt it and restored from Backup. This allowed us to keep Exchange running up till the point we werer ready to restore on the new storage. We're ready to add the second node to the new cluster. We're wondering if it's possible to build the second node as a Windows 2000 server and join it to the 4.0 based cluster. It seems like this might be possible based on reading the MS roling upgrade white paper. The idea is to add the 2000 server to the cluster, move Exchange to it and then evict and rebuild the first node with Windows 2000. This way we would avoid doing an OS upgrade, we'd be working with clean installs of 2000 which has always been preferable in my experience. Thanks for any suggestions, or experiences you can share. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installing Exchange 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster
I'm not getting new servers,just storage,these servers are low profile and don't have enough slots to have the SCSI and fiber adapters in them at the same time. > Why can't you just move the databases? > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I > Tech Consultant > hp Services > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Parker Race > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:16 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Installing Exchange 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster > > > I'm changing the disk storage on a Exchange 5.5 cluster from fiber to > SCSI. As long as I have to restore my whole database I figured I would > take the opportunity to upgrade the server OS to 2000. I've tested > restoring my 5.5 databases on to Windows 2000 successfully a number of > times. Has anyone had experience with installing and running Exchange > 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster? I don't have the spare hardware to test > this scenario. > Thanks > > _ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Exchange 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster
I'm changing the disk storage on a Exchange 5.5 cluster from fiber to SCSI. As long as I have to restore my whole database I figured I would take the opportunity to upgrade the server OS to 2000. I've tested restoring my 5.5 databases on to Windows 2000 successfully a number of times. Has anyone had experience with installing and running Exchange 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster? I don't have the spare hardware to test this scenario. Thanks _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rejected SMTP mail
We're running Exchange 5.5 SP4. I have a problem with users from a certain domain not being able to successfully send mail to us. The ISP is the same for both of us and mail sent from this domain to us is forwarded by the ISP's Unix server running sendmail. In fact all our incoming mail is forwarded from this server and we don't have anyone else complaining of having delivery problems when sending mail to us. I have never seen any non-deliverable messages from this domain to ours in our logs or in the mailbox that NDR messages are sent to. The ISP claims our server is rejecting messages to users from this domain with a user unknown response based on their testing. I've turned up diagnostic logging on the IMC and MTA and don't see any evidence of any rejections. When mail is sent to my personal address the user at the other end and the ISP do not get an error message, however I never get any of the messages either. In fact a user at the other end says his server logs (Exchange 5.0) show that his messages were successfully delivered. Has anyone else seen behavior like this where messages are being rejected by the server but not being logged in anyway? Are there any other tools available to trace incoming messages sent from this domain to our server to verify that it is actually getting to our server? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Removing the first server in a site
> If your users are opening the group calendars using the recent list in > Outlook 2000 [1] (File-Open-Group Calendar Name) it'll fail. If the same > user tries to type in the name of the mailbox again in the dialog that > normally pops up (File-Open-Other User's Folder), it'll start working again. > This happened to us recently. For some reason, Outlook must be retaining > the server name information along with the mailbox name in that "recent > other user's folders" [2] list. > > S./ > > [1] This may have been fixed with Outlook XP. > [2] Couldn't find a better name for it. > I wish it were that simple. It doesn't seem to matter how they attempt to access it they can't open it if the other server is down. > > -Original Message- > From: Parker Race [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:58 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Removing the first server in a site > > > > What do you mean by accessing schedules? Do you mean free/busy info or do > > you mean opening somebody's calendar that resides in their mailbox? > > By schedules I meant opening calendars for users that are set up to be > used as group schedules. There were no problems with accessing free/busy > info that I'm aware of. > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Parker Race [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 8:07 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Removing the first server in a site > > > > > > I'm preparing to remove the first server in our Exchange site. I've read > and > > done most everything indicated in Q152959 except for actually deleting the > > old server. > > > > I shut down the server this weekend but didn't remove it from the site. I > > was able to open various schedules and it was able to access others > > free/busy time with the server down. > > > > However this morning we started getting calls from users who couldn't open > > schedules they normally open with Outlook. It wasn't universal though many > > users had no problems accessing schedules. There were many cases where > some > > users could open a calendar that others couldn't > > > > After failing to find a way to fix this, I brought the old server online > and > > all the access problems went away. > > > > Any ideas on what may be causing this? > > _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Removing the first server in a site
> What do you mean by accessing schedules? Do you mean free/busy info or do > you mean opening somebody's calendar that resides in their mailbox? By schedules I meant opening calendars for users that are set up to be used as group schedules. There were no problems with accessing free/busy info that I'm aware of. > > -Original Message----- > From: Parker Race [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 8:07 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Removing the first server in a site > > > I'm preparing to remove the first server in our Exchange site. I've read and > done most everything indicated in Q152959 except for actually deleting the > old server. > > I shut down the server this weekend but didn't remove it from the site. I > was able to open various schedules and it was able to access others > free/busy time with the server down. > > However this morning we started getting calls from users who couldn't open > schedules they normally open with Outlook. It wasn't universal though many > users had no problems accessing schedules. There were many cases where some > users could open a calendar that others couldn't > > After failing to find a way to fix this, I brought the old server online and > all the access problems went away. > > Any ideas on what may be causing this? > > _ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Removing the first server in a site
I'm preparing to remove the first server in our Exchange site. I've read and done most everything indicated in Q152959 except for actually deleting the old server. I shut down the server this weekend but didn't remove it from the site. I was able to open various schedules and it was able to access others free/busy time with the server down. However this morning we started getting calls from users who couldn't open schedules they normally open with Outlook. It wasn't universal though many users had no problems accessing schedules. There were many cases where some users could open a calendar that others couldn't After failing to find a way to fix this, I brought the old server online and all the access problems went away. Any ideas on what may be causing this? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
