Thanks, all. It looks like Double-Take is the way to go.
Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange fail-over I have not tried 2007 SCR as yet, but have read a lot on it. SCR looks good, but do you really want to be doing stuff in command line when the boss is standing over you wondering when email is going to be back on line? The thing is, if you go to 2007 then you need to pitch your servers for 64 bit, and get the appropriate OS as well. If you are just wanting to get your existing data to an existing standby box, then Double Take is the way to go. The software will configure your target server so that all of the appropriate services are set to manual and stopped. When you failover it will update AD, and add the SPN for the source server to the target server, plus make any required changes in DNS. Users only have to restart Outlook if they were signed in at the time of the failover. And it can be controlled with one mouse click as opposed to having to type correctly when the poo hits the fan. On 18/03/2008, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DoubleTake (as someone else mentioned) and NeverFail are the typical recommended solutions. MessageOne is a typical 3rd party provider providing message continuity. However, I would recommend you upgrade to Exchange 2007 and use LCR or SCR; which are built into the product. If you really actually want to do active/passive Exchange clustering, search on technet.microsoft.com <http://technet.microsoft.com/> for SCC - Single Copy Clustering. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange fail-over Hello all... I want to have a stand-by Exchange box that can act as a fail-over in the event I lose my active Exchange server. I understand that this can be accomplished by clustering. Google has a zillion links about Windows/Exchange clustering so I was hoping the experts here could recommend a link where it would be a good place to start learning how to do this. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Environment is W2K3 Servers and Exchange 2003, clients are a mixture of O2K3 and O2K7...all fully patched. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. -- Regards, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alsipius.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
<<image001.gif>>
