Now that Exchange Server 2010 has had its first birthday, it's a good time to remind folks about the built-in features for high availability, site resilience and disaster recovery in Exchange 201...
Published Dec 16, 2010
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to Bharat Suneja [MSFT]:
have you ever tried to switch off the database used by your clients? obviously not. otherwise you wouldn't ever talk about HA in case of PFs.
Outlook tries to connect to PF DB even if it's not available. the interim update from October (not sure about the date but it's not so important) doesn't provide solution - both Outlook 2003 and 2007 keep connecting to the unavailable server.
how do you want to achieve HA if your clients are not able to connect to the available replica? not mentioning replication gets broken because of another HUGE bugs. (try to forward digitally signed messages with attachments - the interim update doesn't fix it for all cases. it can be easily reproduced.)
have you ever tried to switch off the database used by your clients? obviously not. otherwise you wouldn't ever talk about HA in case of PFs.
Outlook tries to connect to PF DB even if it's not available. the interim update from October (not sure about the date but it's not so important) doesn't provide solution - both Outlook 2003 and 2007 keep connecting to the unavailable server.
how do you want to achieve HA if your clients are not able to connect to the available replica? not mentioning replication gets broken because of another HUGE bugs. (try to forward digitally signed messages with attachments - the interim update doesn't fix it for all cases. it can be easily reproduced.)