Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Standby Continuos Replication (SCR) in a Parent Child domain

Ran into a problem configuring SCR here at a client, the client has an empty root domain with a child resource domain. Exchange is in the Child resource domain along with everything else. When I attempted to get configure SCR between two mailbox servers I got an error about SCR is not supported between servers in different domains. My first thought was to verify the machines were in the same domain and yes they are. I then tried the command from the target machine for the SCR (first time was from source) and got the same error.

I then went searching and found this:
http://blogs.technet.com/timmcmic/archive/2008/12/21/exchange-2007-sp1-ru5-error-regarding-replication-between-computers-in-different-domains-when-using-standby-continuous-replication-scr.aspx

Seems that Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 5 introduced this error and it was not fixed in Rollup 6 just released this month. The link has work some arounds for the problem and states it is schedule to be fixed in Rollup 7. Thanks to Tim McMichael for explaining this bug so I did not go crazy and start rebuilding or re-joining servers to domains.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Windows Server 2008 Core and iSCSI SAN configuration

I am working at a client implementing Server 2008 Core cluster with Hyper-V. Had some interesting issues arrise during this implementation and I am still working on completing the project. Once completed I plan to document some of the gotchas and configurations I found during this project and document them here.

Stay tuned