Comments on: Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) Part 2

By: Duk Hyun Kyoung

Duk Hyun Kyoung — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:50 +0000

thank you for your so much useful articles like twinkling star

By: Grimey73

Grimey73 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:37:17 +0000

I built a lab for this scenario that is, the setup /m:RecoverServer, and it doesnt work.

Outlook or OWA clients could not connect. I will have to try the database portability method.

Microsoft has screwed me yet again.

By: Grimey73

Grimey73 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:08:31 +0000

You confused me by including the Recover storage group in your RecoverServer scenario….where did that come from? Your database portability scenario perhaps?

In this scenario ie. /RecoverServer scenario the restore-storagegroupcopy command should be run against your replicated storage groups.

Also – for those wondering if you must rename the SCR target computer to that of the failed source the answer is YES. Regardless of your client version. If you dont you get this error:

Cannot specify installation mode since no Exchange server is installed on this
machine.Try to install Exchange first.

..and something about the server in AD.

Good walkthrough – as the /RecoverServer scenario is barely mentioned in detail in MS documentation.

By: Jessica W.

Jessica W. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:33:11 +0000

Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?

By: Rehab Ross

Rehab Ross — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:31:05 +0000

Very nice information. Thanks for this.

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:59:36 +0000

hi,
if the target have not only the standby copy storage group but hosts some mailbox store in other storage groups as primary copy, is necessary to unistall exchange first to run setup /recoverserver ???
thanks

Giuseppe

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:33:00 +0000

if all clients are using outlook 2007 could you skip all the steps required to rename the computer and remove it from AD?

thanks
-asmcbride

By: Harold

Harold — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:28:00 +0000

If you do not want to remane the recovery server and you want your clients to rehome. You can remove the downed server from DNS and readd it as an alias and point to the recovery server name. I do this when we test our Disaster Recovery and it rehomes the clients.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Nice and to the point. I wish all instructions I read were this direct and descriptive.

By: Exchange_Genie

Exchange_Genie — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:54:00 +0000

Drew,

the mailbox is rehome but the client is not, so lets say you use Outlook 2003 and I move your mailbox when you go home, then turn off the server you use to be on. the next day Outlook chokes because the redirect it done after Outlook talks to the old server. There for if you recover the server with the same name you do not have to deal with any client configuration issues.