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{ Monthly Archives } April 2009

Exchange 2007 Failover and Failback with SCR

I’ve been doing a bit of work with SCR lately, the point being to achieve a “poor man’s failover” for the mailbox server role. Not everyone needs the immediacy, or the expense, of a cluster, and SCR was a welcome addition to the redundacy capabilities of Exchange 2007 – but I couldn’t find a complete [...]

Exchange 2007 Outlook Anywhere on Windows 2008 IPv6 bug – the fix breaks SCR!

Just a quick post about this technote: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671176.aspx It claims this bug was fixed in rollup 4, but after struggling with a server with rollup 7 installed for many hours today, I can confirm that this bug is not fixed, and you do need to follow the procedure in the technote. The bug concerns Outlook [...]

Adding Exchange 2007 mailboxes to existing users

A while back I proposedĀ  a powershell XMA approach to the problem of adding Exchange 2007 mailboxes to existing AD users. This was because my old method of adding an Exchange 2003 mailbox by populating a couple of extra attributes did not seem to work with Exchange 2007. However, inĀ  a recent thread on the [...]