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Disaster Recovery: Active/Passive Mail Flow

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Hello. I am planning to deploy an active/passive server environment for Exchange 2013. Here's what I plan to achieve:

  • EXCHANGE-A - on production site, active (all mail flow goes through here), member of DAG
  • EXCHANGE-B - on disaster recovery site, passive (mail flow goes through here ONLY when activated), member of DAG

I have tried disabling all receive connectors on EXCHANGE-B, however that causes OWA to delay sending messages for around 20 seconds (messages stuck in Drafts folder before being sent out). I have also tried disabling Exchange Transport services on EXCHANGE-B but to no avail.

Is it possible to achieve active/passive mail flow server environment? What is the best way to achieve this? I appreciate any leads on this matter.




Recover DAG environment from total site loss

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Attempting to recover from total site loss. Exchange 2010 sp3 two each of CAS, HTS, and MBX servers.

single DAG environment with two MBX servers as members of that DAG

I have recovered CAS and HTS servers  to new VM's using SETUP /m:recoverserver

I have recovered one of the two MBX servers the same way, but was first required to remove it from the DAG.

I am now stuck because I can't add it back to the DAG. When I try, I receive the error "Unable to contact the Cluster service on other 1 members (MBX2) of the database availability group."

I need to add the recovered server back to the DAG so that I can remove the other failed server and recover it and move on to data recovery.

There's plenty of instruction on recovering a single DAG member, but I cannot find any documentation on recovering a full DAG environment from a total site loss.

How do I go about recovering from a complete site loss

Witness file server behaving strangely

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Hi Guys,

I've configured two exchange 2013 servers with CU7 and a file share witness server. My server is up and functional. databases are mounted and my DAG IP and FQDN work. I've added a db copy to my other server.

But when I go to failover cluster manager it says there no witness server (Witness: none). At the bottom under File Share Witness it says <not configured> and if I try to bring it online I get an error

Cluster resource 'File Share Witness (\\cebu.server.local\Dag.server.local)' of type 'File Share Witness' in clustered role 'Cluster Group' failed. The error code was '0x57' ('The parameter is incorrect.').

There is also no file in the share.

I would expect my hard drives to become unmounted, but they are mounted and everything seems to be chugging away. This is a new install so it's not in production yet.

any thoughts or ideas?

Issues trying to recover failed Exchange Server 2013 in a DAG

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Having several issues attempting to recover a failed Exchange Server 2013. To start out, the failed server was mounted on a virtual server using hyper-v. The virtual server failed due to some hard drive partition issues and would no longer boot. As there really was no purpose to having Exchange on a Virtual Server I decided to rename the host to the same name as the virtual server. I reset the name in AD and proceeded to rename the server. Then made sure all the necessary things were installed and proceeded to do a recovery installation. I neglected to properly delete the old databases belonging to that server. I simply deleted the files off the hard drive instead of doing it properly. I should mention this is a two node plus witness server installation.Now, it seems I cannot delete the former server in either ECP or command line. I have attempted to clean up the mess with the old databases but there is one that was mounted only on the failed server that I cannot remove. It seems until I can remove that, I cannot remove the failed server from the DAG and do a recovery install. The steps shown in the tech net articles to remove a failed database have also failed. At this point I am wondering if I should just give up on the server name and do an install on a new server name or if someone can give me some information on how to clean up the mess, that would be better I am sure. Here is a list of the things I have tried.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876880(v=exchg.150).aspx and in this article, the item mentioned is not in ADSIedit.

http://exchangeserverpro.com/unable-remove-failed-server-dag-exchange-server-2010/

http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-2013-how-to-remove-dag-member/ This article describes one of the problems I am having but the solution is not there.

Thanks to any and all who can offer advice.


Ronald C. Pope

Break cluster after all resources lost but servers still alive?

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Hi All,

I'm hoping someone can point me to some documentation to resolve this problem I have. Basically I'm trying to create a lab of my production environment to test migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2013. I used Disk2VHD to get a VM of one of my DCs, the two nodes of my SCC Mailbox Servers, and my two CAS/HUB servers. I was able to get the DC and CAS/HUB servers working but haven't had much luck with the Mailbox servers. None of the cluster resources are available in the lab and the cluster service wont start. It looks like in order to break the cluster I need the cluster itself to be working to delete the resources and uninstall the servers. I was hoping someone knows of a resource that shows how to break the cluster when you can't bring the cluster up at all. Then I could establish a new cluster with a test database and test my migration procedure.

Thanks for the help!

Fail to add mailbox database copy for newly created Database

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I have created a new exchange database by ECP on active mailbox server and tried to add copy onto my passive server by ECP but its failed with Error saying Attempt to access Registry on Machine XXXXMBX1.XXX.local did not success after 10 Sec.Tried it by Exch PS  by logon onto same server XXXXMBX1.XXX.Local but same error.

The attempt to access the registry on machine 'XXXMBX1.ekkorg.local' did not succeed after 10 seconds.

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy], RemoteRegistryTimedOutException

Service Remote Registry is not running and manually its not allow me to get it start.

Pls Help to rectify error and create Exchange Copy Database.

Reg

Aditya

Site Resilence

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Greetings,

New Exchange Server 2013 Deployment,

Two Sites (Main Site, and DR Site)

Each Site has one Edge Server, CAS Server and Two MBX Servers

- External DNS Records Resolve to Edge Servers with Round Robin

- DR Site should automatically respond in case of any failure in Main Site

- CAS Server in DR should respond to users in case of CAS Server down in Main Site, and Vise versa

Question

1) What is the External and Internal DNS ( DNS Records) Configuration to Achieve the High Availability on Edge and CAS Servers? Should the DNS be configured with Round Robin on EDGE and CAS?

2- What DNS records should be presented in case of DNS Split design (Internal / External) ?

Thanking you

Jamil

DR scenario suggestions (unique Exchange 2013 setup)

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Hi there, I have a unique setup that I've been asked to create DR documentation for. The setup is very unique. Here is what I've brainstormed so far...

Environment

  • 1x Primary Exchange 2013 server located at HQ
  • 1x Secondary Exchange 2013 server located at DR site


DAG setup

Setup in a "IP less DAG", only two servers with all roles on each server

Failing over the databases mid day works fine, no disconnect from the outlook clients and mail continues to flow. In a real scenario where the HQ server no longer exists this is my brainstormed plan so far.

All virtual directories are currently..

  • owa.company.com\_____
  • owa.company.com resolves to the primary exchange server

Brainstormed scenario -  Exchange specific tasks in the event of a HQ failure

  • HQ server failed no longer functions
  • Update DNS to point owa.company.com to the secondary server
  • Databases should already be active on secondary server
  • The company already has firewall rules created and a MX records for ready for the DR site

I assume this is all that would need to be done? I know this is a very unique setup, and it could be done better. Unfortunately I don't have the pull to change this setup. Any suggestions on this scenario would greatly be appreciated.

Thank you!







CAS Availability

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Greetings,

Exchange Server 2013 / Client Access Server is deployed in two sites

site 1: CAS1: Public IP 212.213.1.1 / Private IP 10.10.1.1

Site 2: CAS2: Public IP 212.213.2.1 / Private IP 10.10.2.1

EDGE1 deployed in Site1, EDGE2 deployed in Site2

How to achieve CAS availability across sites, i.e. if CAS1 Fails? is it enough to use DNS RR for both External and Internal CAS records? or it needs HW Load Balancers, and in this case, does the load balancer work for two CAS Servers even if they are in different sites?

Thanks

Mailbox always created, do I need them ?

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We are adding Exchange servers to our environment but each time we install Exchange on the server a default mailbox is automatically created as well. Do I really need them ? can I delete all of them ? Exchange 2013

Mailbox Database 057...

Mailbox Database 0915...

Mailbox Database 163...

MapiDagNetwork Misconfigured - Cluster replication network accepts client connections via Replication Network

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Our Clutered Exchange 2013  enviroment MapiNetwork Is currently showing a status of misconfigured. Both the replication and Mapi subnets are configured under the same DAG Network.

Furthermore when you look at the failover cluster manager network nodes network 2 and network 3 all network connections are set to Allow clients to connect through this network even though Network 3 is purely meant for network replication.

Do I need to update the Cluster network nodes so clients will only be accepted on the none replication network or will they automatically update when I recreate the DAG Networks to seperate MapiNetwork from the Replication Network in Exchange 2013 ECP console.

ESEUTIL /P recovery time

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My exchange 2010 server lost power before it was able to perform a clean shutdown and while coming back online some of the log files became corrupted. I've tried every safe-recovery option up my sleeve but finally decided to run the eseutil /p command and hope for the best.

my exchange data file is well over 500gb, about 540gb to be more exact and while I expected the process to take more than a few hours to complete, we're going hour 23 and we're at what I believe is the last step: Deleting MSsyLocales; I know after I run this process that I'm going to have to run a defragmentation and then finally an integrity check; but management is concerned about email being down for a full day. 

I'd like to sit down with management and give them a better idea of how long this process is going to take, and hoping that my math is wrong: It's processed about 14gb every 15 minutes during this step which would indicate i have another 9-ish hours to go. And then to run the defragmentation which research shows processes at about 3-5gb/h I'm looking at an additional 110hrs?! Please tell me my math is off.

Any reassurance that we're almost out of the woods would be greatly appreciated.

Limit of users that can be displayed

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I have over 4000 users that have not been enable for Exchange in Active directory, when I try to create/enable an exchange account by selecting "Existing User" tab then click Browse and type the name of the user  in search box that I want to enable, it comes up empty. So could it be the limit of users that can be displayed, if so, is there a setting somewhere I can change to increase the limit ? Exchange 2013 using EAC.

We still have a co-existance with Exchange 2010, when I try the same with EMC, no problems but when I user the Exchange Admin Centre, then I cannot get the users by searching.

  

Error: MigrationPermanentException: The database is excluded from provisioning. Please select a different target database for the move. --

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I have done some googling but did not get a realy solution. We are in co-existance starting migration process from 2010 to 2013, but with some of the database created in 2013 when trying to migrate the users I get that error message. NOT all on the databases created give that error message but some of them give that error. Running the command "C:\>Get-MailboxDatabase | FT Name,IsExcludedFromProvisioning,IsSuspendedFromProvisioning" all database Show FALSE, so why do some give the above error message.

How can I solve this issue ? the database are in a DAG, 1 active, 1 passive and 1 Lag.

Exchange server 2010 backup fails

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My exchange server backup keep failing

the exchange server 2010 two node dag

netbackup 7.6

I have contacted Symantec support. They believed it's Exchange server problem as "Vssadin list writers"

show Microsoft Exchange writer Retryable error

Any help?


Is RAID 5 good option for Exchange 2013 Database

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I would be implementing exchange 2013 soon and we are planning to   8 x 1200GB 10k SAS disks (5TB avaiable space), So i am just curious to know if RAID 5 is good option for Exchange 2013 database.


BR/Deepak

Exchange server DAG (Cluster failure)

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Hi,

Here is my issue: In our organization, Exchange server 2013 is installed on windows server 2012,

From few months we are having issue with cluster fail-over.

We have a DAG with 8 nodes and in that 4 servers are having this issue

Here is the below event logs we are receiving  and exchange DBs will get fail-over to the passive node

Let me know if you need any more detail

Could you please let me know the cause and resolution for this issue. 

Here is the flow of event logs..

 "IMPORTANT thing is this is happening every 3rd or 4th day the month, depends on the number of days in the month (30/31 days ) "

1 : NETLOGON 

 

This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain VCN due to the following: 

The security account manager (SAM) or local security authority (LSA) server was in the wrong state to perform the security operation. 

This may lead to authentication problems. Make sure that this computer is connected to the network. If the problem persists, please contact your domain administrator.  

 

ADDITIONAL INFO 

If this computer is a domain controller for the specified domain, it sets up the secure session to the primary domain controller emulator in the specified domain. Otherwise, this computer sets up the secure session to any domain controller in the specified domain.

 

event : 5719

 

 

2 : Security Kerberos:

 

The digitally signed Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) that contains the authorization information for client Server-name$ in realm(FQDN) could not be validated.

 

 This error is usually caused by domain trust failures; Contact your system administrator

 

event iD 7

 

 

3 : DNS Client event 

 

The system failed to register host (A or AAAA) resource records (RRs) for network adapter

with settings:

 

           Adapter Name : {0C144F1B-3175-4B24-8E13-F874BFF9243B}

           Host Name : Server-name

           Primary Domain Suffix : FQDN 

           DNS server list :

              131.**.***.*, 131.**.***.*

           Sent update to server : <?>

           IP Address(es) :

             131.**.***.***

 

The reason the system could not register these RRs was because the update request it sent to the DNS server timed out. The most likely cause of this is that the DNS server authoritative for the name it was attempting to register or update is not running at this time.

 

You can manually retry DNS registration of the network adapter and its settings by typing 'ipconfig /registerdns' at the command prompt. If problems still persist, contact your DNS server or network systems administrator.

 

Even ID : 8015

 

4 : Fail-over cluster:

 

File share witness resource 'File Share Witness \\segotn5102.xyz.ab.abc.net\SEGOTNC5110.xyz.ab.abc.net)' failed to arbitrate for the file share \\segotn5102.xyz.ab.abc.net\SEGOTNC5110.xyz.ab.abc.net)'. Please ensure that file share \\segotn5102.xyz.ab.abc.net\SEGOTNC5110.xyz.ab.abc.net)' exists and is accessible by the cluster.

 

Segotn5102 - witness server

segotn5110 - DAG name (Virtual name)

event : 1564

 Thank you,

Pradeep K


Node Majority DAG, How to recover when quorum is lost

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Hi

I have EXchange 2013 SP1 DAG, Node Majority where 2 MBX servers in the primary site and 1 MBX server in the DR Site. If there is a simultaneous loss of the 2 MBX servers in the primary site as in a power failure, then quorum will be lost. 

How can I recover operations using the MBX Server in DR?????


jk

Database move during user login?

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I am trying to find an answer which i am unable to.

As in exchange 2013, CAS is doing proxy so no rendering stuff, cookie based authentication so if one CAS server is rebooted, no need to re authenticate or pop-up screen for logon credentials as in Exchange 2010 when user were connected before reboot.

However if database moves from one server to other as part of DAG, does it require any relogin? for user who were connected to before move?

2nd. For Exchange 2010 : Do we have any solution where user don't need to re login in case where he was logged in to a CAS Server and CAS server reboots?


SMF

Exchange 2013 deployment design recommendations?

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We are planning on upgrading from Exchange 2010 to 2013.  

Currently, we have 2 Exchange servers.  One server with mailbox and hub transport in our local office with users.  The CAS is in a remote data center.  So, whenever either server is down or being restarted, all mail stops.

We have received licenses for three Exchange 2013 servers.  What is the best way to set these up so there is high availability whenever any one of the three servers is offline.  Also, since we will still have the licenses for our existing two Exchange 2010 servers, will there be any benefit in keeping those in this scenario?

I have attached a diagram of our current layout and we want to revamp it.

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