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Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:35 AM

KB.921181 and "File Share Witness"

KB out yesterday ( KB.921181 ) covers the introduction and details about the new “File Share Witness” quorum model. This is an improvement to the original MNS design that allows a read/write file share to serve as the “voter” for
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Sunday, April 02, 2006 6:58 PM

KB.867624 replaced

Looking for KB.867624? It’s been replaced and retired (and removed)... I had previously blogged about the “ Upgrading to E2k3 SP2 on a cluster ” process, and in that posting I had referenced the KB.867624 article about how to upgrade
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:37 PM

Virtual Server Host Clustering Step-by-Step

A Step-by-step guide for using MSCS clusters to host Virtual Server guests was just released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09cc042b-154f-4eba-a548-89282d6eb1b3&displaylang=en Here’s the overview: Overview This document
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Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:51 AM

Upgrading to E2k3 SP2 cluster

There are a couple of important things I wanted to point out about the upgrade to E2k3 Sp2 on a cluster: Same process as the upgrade to E2k3 Sp1 Fixes broken virtual directories and other upgrade snafus IMF still not supported for use on cluster Ok, more
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Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:22 AM

"Access Denied" creating an Exchange 2003 System Attendant resource

KB.906906 talks about another problem you may run into while creating a system attendant resource for Exchange 2003 cluster, relating to Remote Registry access/permissions. This is really just pulling out the “Symptom #4” part of KB.329229 as its own
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:55 AM

Exploit for MSDTC bug in MS05-051

Techweb reports that there’s an exploit out for the MSDTC security fix in MS05–051 . So, if you’re running an Exchange cluster on Windows 2000 server, you’ll want to get this patch applied ASAP! See the security bulletin for more details, and for info
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Friday, October 07, 2005 3:48 PM

Exchange Standby Clusters are now supported

Great news! The long-awaited ability to use “standby” Exchange clusters is finally completed testing and documentation with its addition to the Disaster Recovery Operations Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/DROpsGuide/2493c2d6-618c-4c49-9cb1-fff556926707.mspx
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:10 AM

Clustered Exchange setup tidbit

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 binaries
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Monday, September 05, 2005 11:19 AM

Evicted your Exchange cluster node?

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
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Monday, September 05, 2005 10:35 AM

Large Exchange 2003 clusters and disabling the MTA

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
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Monday, August 15, 2005 7:10 AM

The MTA and Exchange 2003 clusters with > 4 nodes

This is a bit of a specific topic, as it only affects people who are trying to use the MTA in their cluster (for mail delivery back to 5.5 in mixed-mode, or to foreign systems not connected with SMTP, etc) * AND * have >4 nodes in their cluster. There’s
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:56 AM

Exchange clustering and firewalls

Rod posts today about the strange (and sometimes frustrating) behavior where outbound SMTP connections from an Exchange cluster originate from the host IP address rather than from the virtualized IP resource associated with the Exchange Virtual Server.
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Friday, August 05, 2005 5:05 PM

Cluster hotfix for Exchange 2000

KB article came out the other day on this sort of obscure scenario, but interesting to know about in any case: KB.896617 : “ The Exchange Information Store service stops responding when the Exchange Information Store service is shutting down or the Exchange
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Monday, July 25, 2005 12:09 PM

Clustered Exchange Nodes as AD domain controllers

I blogged about KB.898364 briefly when it was created , but over this past weekend there was a flurry of newsgroup posts about putting clustered Exchange onto cluster nodes that are also domain controllers. Several responses referenced KB.281662 (how
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Monday, July 04, 2005 9:51 AM

MSDTC and Exchange clusters - redux

Still catching up on my queue of blog posts, I think that all of the documentation around MSDTC and Exchange clusters has now been updated (see earlier posts for details). Here’s what I’ve got: KB.301600 has been updated to detail Exchange 2003 not requiring
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