Deploying Database Availability Groups in Exchange Server 2010

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Microsoft adds new features to every Exchange Server release. Some of these features are destined to be quietly ignored and eventually retired—remember the Exchange Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server? Others go out in a quick blaze of glory, such as active/active clustering. Still others introduce fundamental changes in the way we design and deploy Exchange. Exchange 2010’s new database availability group (DAG) feature falls into that last category. The idea of ...

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Discuss this Article 7

paulrobichaux
on Jul 21, 2010
The New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupNetwork cmdlet will do the trick for you.
scotthaigh@yahoo.com
on Apr 30, 2010
Paul - It's not clear in your article how you assign the cluster IP to the replication NIC. You indicate that the GUI only assigned it to the MAPI network. If the cluster is created via the GUI and it's assigned to the MAPI network, can you please indicate how we move that over to the replication nic?
Thanks
tmauro23
on Jun 7, 2010
Paul - You mention "DAGs are the last remaining vestige of WINS remaining in Exchange..." Does this mean Exchange 2010 when using DAGs requires WINS to operate so they must continue to remain in the environment?
paulrobichaux
on May 19, 2010
Sorry that wasn't more clear in the article. You'll need to create a DAG network for replication, then assign it to the DAG. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298051.aspx has the details on how to accomplish this using EMS.

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