This question came up yesterday on a list I read, so I figured it might be of interest out here. Do you remember the “Setup Shall Install the Clustered Version of Exchange” pop-up in Exchange 2000? This was the pop-up you’d get when installing the...

Jim McBee recounts a recent experience with this , and how forgetting to do a “setup /reinstall” on the cluster node led to Exchange thinking it was a beta/evaluation version of Exchange. Excellent point to make: if you ever evict one of the (Exchange...

Big revision recently to KB.810489 . This is the KB that talks about the MTA function and how it can or can’t be disabled in various scenarios. The core change is that if you’ve got super-large Exchange clusters (>4 nodes) in a native-mode administrative...