Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Daily Archives: February 29, 2008
Exchange 2007 CCR Configuration Notes
Posted by on February 29, 2008
Once you’ve followed the installation process and have your active and passive nodes setup you may not actually be able to failover and mount the stores – it fails and logs an event 9317 from MSExchangeSA as below;
The fix is to register an SPN for each cluster node as per this KB article – why setup doesn’t do this for you I don’t know?
add-ADPermission -Identity “cn=exchange-cms,cn=computers,dc=mydomain,dc=com” -User “node-cl1$” -AccessRights WriteProperty -Properties “Validated-SPN”
You do this using the Exchange Management {Power}Shell Applet using the following command.
One thing to bear in mind – particularly if you are implementing a CCR cluster across mode than one physical site (single subnet required) you’ll need to wait for each node’s respective AD Domain Controller to replicate the changes.
Once that was completed I could fail over the cluster nodes perfectly.
Novell Acquire Platespin
Posted by on February 29, 2008
As noted here and here, they’ve done it – lets hope they don’t stuff it up – Platespin have a good roadmap in my book – particularly around virtual DR/BC with their Forge product.
Novell had, and to some extent still do have very good technical products but they just make such a mess of integrating them all and making it easy to deploy and support which is one of the reasons MS beat them in the server wars…. the virtualization wars are the current battleground!
Today, You Work For Nothing
Posted by on February 29, 2008
I hadn’t really thought about this, but as the BBC point out technically you are working today without pay..!
As if we didn’t already work enough unpaid overtime
Now, if I didn’t have this big pile of things to do today then….
😦
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