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jafnva
Feb 14, 2023Copper Contributor
Exchange 2019 DAG Witness Server
We are planning a DR site to have some of our servers online in case of our primary site going offline. We would like to have an Exchange server that is part of a DAG, at the DR site. Because we’re ...
- Feb 14, 2023Hi, witness server can be located anywhere to hold the quorum for the DAG. To consider the risk you can easily interpret scenarios of what happens if the witness server is located on site 1, 2, or 3. Please refer to the article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/high-availability/plan-ha?view=exchserver-2019 , where all is clearly explained. Best regards
Nejc_Svete
Feb 14, 2023Copper Contributor
Hi, witness server can be located anywhere to hold the quorum for the DAG. To consider the risk you can easily interpret scenarios of what happens if the witness server is located on site 1, 2, or 3. Please refer to the article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/high-availability/plan-ha?view=exchserver-2019 , where all is clearly explained. Best regards
jafnva
Feb 14, 2023Copper Contributor
That's good to know - thanks for the information Nejc! I'll take a look at the article.