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Exchange Migration Recovery Question - 6.Aug.2004 4:36:00 PM

zencom19

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In the process of migrating to Exchange 2000 from 5.5. Need to test a Recovery scenario that we cooked up.
I have 2 Exchange 2000 servers, ExchA and ExchB both servers have 2 fiber cards,

Configuration
Card01 on ExchA can see disk D, E, and F on SAN
Card01 on ExchB can see disk, I, J, K on SAN
Card02 on ExchA can see ExchB disk, I, J, K.
Card02 on ExchB can see ExchA disk D, E, and F
Card02 on both Servers are unplugged from the SAN.

ExchA database is on Disk D and logs on Disk E.
ExchB Database on Disk I and logs on Disk J
On ExchA, we created a second Storage Group and mailbox store (Recovery Storage Group and Mailbox Store) that points to the database and log location of ExchB and the Reverse was done on ExchB.

This was done that in the event that ExchB failed we could move the fiber cable to card02 on ExchA, make sure that the drive letters are the same as it was on ExchB, mount the Recovery mailbox store and have user up and running in a few minutes. All worked but I am unable to get the Outlook clients to find the new mailbox store. Outlook keeps looking for the mailbox on the failed server and will not connect.