Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Change DAG Witness Server - Exchange 2010 Hosted

I recently had to change a DAG on Exchange 2010 Hosted. This only uses the Exchange Management Shell, and I couldn't find instructions specific to this, so I thought I'd share my experience.

Requirements

Witness Server has the following Requirements:

-          Can’t be part of the DAG

-          Same AD forest as DAG

-          Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Server 2003

-          Each DAG requires a different witness directory, but they can all be run on the same server

Permissions

Set permissions on target server –

Local Administrors group – add Exchange Trusted Subsystem

Reboot server to apply permissions

Commands

Go to Exchange Management Shell, and type in:

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | fl

There are two lines to pay attention to: WitnessServer and WitnessDirectory

To change the Witness server, type the following:

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup –WitnessServer witness.serverdomain.local –WitnessDirectory C:\DAG1

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Dustin Shaw
VCP

3 comments:

  1. I have a good number of employees in my company and I’m looking at investing in a hosted exchange solution for all of them. Can you please tell me how much it will cost, if I have to get email hosting for 100 users? Are they charged on number of accounts or by the amount of data stored?

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  2. Thanks! Is easy but never dies.

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  3. hi,
    Could the witness share be a NETAPP CIFS ?

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