Anyone would have done a better job than the muppets that were involved. A severe lack of discovery surrounding non-windows clients, the customer has a massive Unix/Linux/Apps connected to AD for authentication and no single configuration, some had hard-coded IPs, some were using name resolution using hosts files for lookup etc. Add in around 30 3rd party support vendors that don't even know their own application configurations and it gets worse. Took them over a year to replace 8 2003 DCs with 4 2012R2 DCs, and they had to put in an additional 2 last month just to handle the load.
I'll pass the transport details onto the ones doing the actual planning, I'm really hoping it's not me :) Cheers again Michael. On 8 November 2016 at 16:03, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > They should’ve hired me or Brian. J > > > > In this case, you need to install from the command line, ensuring that you > have /DoNotStartTransport specified. You also need to have scripts ready to > configure OutlookAnywhere and all of the virtual directories immediately. > > > > As soon as IIS comes up on the new servers, they are going to start > advertising their SPN in AD for the AD site they are located in. This means > that clients may choose them during an autodiscover cycle and those > autodiscovers will fail. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Tony Patton > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 8, 2016 10:11 AM > *To:* Exchange List > *Subject:* Re: [Exchange] Adding additional CAS/HT servers to Ex2010 Org > > > > Thanks Michael, but they won't allow any AD site changes as they've just > just finished a pretty disastrous AD upgrade from 2003 to 2012R2 which > removed the Exchange site the existing servers were in. Thankfully I > wasn't involved in that project. > > > > They are planning to move to Office365 next year so aren't going to invest > much on Exchange now, they are only standing these servers up for Archiving > as their current archiving solution is on it's last legs and the existing > mailbox servers are at their 60 VM disk limits. > > > > Tony > > > > On 8 November 2016 at 14:24, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Best practice says you set up the new servers in a standalone AD site > (which will also need to contain a DC). Once all the configuration is done, > you remove the separate AD site. It’s a bit of a PITA, but it makes things > go much more smoothly. > > > > By the way, Kemp offers a free virtual HLB that works perfectly for a > setup like this. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Tony Patton > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:37 AM > *To:* Exchange List > *Subject:* [Exchange] Adding additional CAS/HT servers to Ex2010 Org > > > > Hi folks, > > > > We have a customer that will be adding 2 additional CAS/HT servers & 2 > mailbox servers to their on-premise Exchange org very shortly. > > > > I believe as part of the CAS/HT role install, it will add the servers to > the CASARRAY. > > > > I've never had to add new CAS/HT servers to an org after it's been in live > service, so we will need to apply the same configurations to these new ones > as the other ones do, before the users start connecting to them. > > The last time I had to install Exchange was over 4 years ago when the > original servers were built. > > > > What is the best/safest way to set up the servers but not having the users > accessing them until the CAS & HT roles are fully configured and ready for > service? > > Can it be installed as a single server then added to the CASARRAY WNLB? > > > > They use WNLB (I know, we've tried to get them to install proper HWLBs but > they won't as it's working for them, for some definition of working) for > the CAS array. > > > > Is it a matter of stopping or removing the new servers in WNLB and setting > the Autodiscover, EWS, etc URLs to the WNLB FQDNs? > > Is there more involved? Am I missing something really obvious (to others)? > > > > Everything I've come across is based on creating a new cas server or array. > > > > The current setup is Exchange 2010 SP3 UR10 (going to 14 or 15 next month). > > WNLB Casarray containing 4 CAS/HT servers > > DAG containing 4 Mailbox servers (2 Active/2 Passive) > > Windows 2008 SP2 (non-R2) > > Single AD forest/domain/site > > > > TIA for all comments to come :) > > > > Tony > > >
