In part 1 I went through the process of deciding what service to use for my mail and ended up going with Google Apps. It allows me to keep my existing domain name, I can access my data from just about anywhere, I have access to a calendar and contacts and best of all its free. In part 2 I’ll go through the steps I used to get everything up and running and detail a couple of gotcha’s the almost had me going back to my home servers. Read more…
The process for installing SP2 on an Exchange 2007 cluster has changed significantly since Exchange 2003, firstly the upgrade must be completed via the command line, to upgrade the primary node the cluster needs to be taken offline and finally the cluster needs to be manually failed over to the secondary node again through the command line and upgraded. The process isn’t harder than in Exchange 2003 but there are more steps and its a good idea to schedule a couple hours of downtime.
The process for the upgrade:
In part 1 of this article the log files were moved from the default install location to a separate drive. In part 2 the database files will be moved, the process is very similar in that replication will need to be stopped, database dismounted, AD configuration changed and finally the files physically moved to the new location. Read more…
There’s an excellent series of articles over at MSExchange.org on installing Exchange 2007 CCR on Windows 2008 in a Failover Cluster I recently used on a project. Even though the article uses the 32bit beta of Exchange 2007 it still applies to the RTM version and worked great. **Take note Exchange 2007 SP1 is required; Exchange 2007 will not install on Windows 2008 you need to use Exchange 2007 SP1.
Once the install finished there were a couple of steps that needed to be completed before Exchange could be put into production. Read more…