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How to Create an HTTP Virtual Server Resource for an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server Cluster For the Cluster service to manage each HTTP virtual server, you must create a ne

How to Create an HTTP Virtual Server Resource for an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server Cluster

For the Cluster service to manage each HTTP virtual server, you must create a new HTTP server resource for each HTTP virtual server This topic explains how to create an HTTP virtual server resource for an

Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server cluster

Before You Begin

You must perform the following steps for each Exchange Virtual Server to which you have added a new HTTP virtual server

Procedure

To create an HTTP virtual server resource for an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server cluster

1 Open Cluster Administrator

2 Right-click the Exchange Virtual Server, point to New, and then click Resource

3 The New Resource Wizard starts In the Name box, type Exchange

HTTP Virtual Server - (<EVSName>), where EVSName is the name

of the front-end server

4 In the Resource type list, click Microsoft Exchange HTTP Server

Instance Verify that the Group list contains the name of your

Exchange Virtual Server, and then click Next

5 In Possible Owners, under Possible owners, verify that all nodes are displayed, and then click Next

6 In Dependencies, add the Exchange System Attendant resource

to the Resource dependencies box, and then click Next

7 In Virtual Server Instance, in the Server Instance list, select the

newly created HTTP virtual server for the resource, and then click

Finish

8 In Cluster Administrator, right-click the HTTP virtual server

instances you just created, and then click Bring Online

How to Create Virtual Directories for an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server Cluster

When you create an Exchange Virtual Server, during the creation of the Exchange System Attendant resource, Exchange creates an HTTP virtual server resource This topic explains how to create virtual directories for

an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server cluster

Before you can create a virtual directory, you must create an HTTP virtual server in Exchange System Manager For detailed instructions, see How

you create the HTTP virtual server, you must add virtual directories to the back-end server(s) that match the virtual directories configured on the front-end server A typical Exchange installation contains virtual

directories called Exchange and Public In Exchange System Manager, virtual directories of HTTP virtual servers appear as child objects of the HTTP virtual server

Before You Begin

For any virtual directories that point to mailboxes, ensure that the SMTP

domain selected on the virtual directory Properties matches the SMTP

domain of users who will be using that front-end server If the correct domain is not selected, users of that domain will not be able to use that

virtual server to log on The list of domains is compiled from the domains

of the SMTP addresses in the Exchange organization's recipient policies

If you have more than one recipient policy for the same domain, you will see duplicates In this case, it does not matter which one you select

Procedure

To create virtual directories for an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server cluster

1 Open Exchange System Manager

2 In the console tree, expand Servers, expand the server that you want to configure as a back-end server, expand Protocols, and then expand HTTP

3 Right-click <HTTP Virtual Server Name>, point to New, and then

click Virtual Directory

4 In Properties, in the Name box, type Exchange

5 Under Exchange Path, the Mailboxes for SMTP domain option is

selected by default Keep this setting, because users use the

Exchange virtual directory to access their Exchange mailboxes Click

OK to create the first virtual directory

6 In the console tree, right-click <HTTP Virtual Server Name> again,

point to New, and then click Virtual Directory

7 In Properties, in the Name box, type Public

8 Under Exchange Path, click Public folder, and then click Modify

9 In Public Folder Selection, double-click Public Folders After a

few seconds, Exchange resolves the public folder's server name and

appends it to the name of the Public Folders container

The Public Folder Selection dialog box

10 Click OK to close the Public Folder Selection dialog box

11 In Properties, click OK

12 If there are additional virtual directories configured on your front-end server, you must also create those virtual directories To create additional virtual directories, repeat Steps 5 through 10 for each virtual directory

For More Information

For more information about creating virtual directories, see "Configure the Server's Virtual Directory" in Exchange 2003 Help

How to Upgrade an Exchange 2000 Cluster to Exchange Server 2003

Upgrading an Exchange 2000 cluster to Exchange 2003 requires that you upgrade each of the cluster nodes and Exchange Virtual Servers to

Exchange 2003

Before You Begin

Before you perform the procedures in this topic, be aware of the

following:

 After you upgrade to Exchange Server 2003, the cluster service

account no longer needs any Exchange-specific permissions To follow the common security practice known as least privilege, you should

remove the Exchange-specific permissions you assigned during the

upgrade after the last Exchange 2000 cluster has been upgraded or

migrated to Exchange Server 2003

 You need to perform this procedure only once per cluster

Procedure

To perform a rolling upgrade of an Exchange 2000 cluster to

Exchange Server 2003

1 Upgrade each node in the cluster to Exchange Server 2003 For detailed steps, see How to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of an Exchange

2 Remove the Exchange permissions for the cluster service account For detailed steps, see How to Remove Cluster Service Account

Exchange Permissions After Upgrading from Exchange 2000 to

To perform a clean upgrade of an Exchange 2000 cluster to

Exchange Server 2003

1 Evict each node, one at a time, and build the evicted nodes as new clusters For detailed steps, see How to Perform a Clean Upgrade of

2 Remove the Exchange permissions for the cluster service account For detailed steps, see How to Remove Cluster Service Account

Exchange Permissions After Upgrading from Exchange 2000 to

How to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of an Exchange 2000 Cluster to Exchange Server 2003

To perform a rolling upgrade of an Exchange 2000 cluster to Exchange

2003, you must first run Exchange 2003 Setup to upgrade the nodes of your cluster, and then use Cluster Administrator to upgrade the Exchange Virtual Servers

Before You Begin

Before you perform the procedure in this topic, consider the following:

 It is recommended that you upgrade one Exchange cluster node at a time

 When upgrading each node, it is recommended that you move the Exchange Virtual Server from the node you are upgrading to another node This enables users to access their e-mail through the relocated Exchange Virtual Server during the Exchange 2003 upgrade process

This procedure uses the following upgrade scenario for example

purposes

 Upgrading an Exchange 2000 SP3 cluster with four nodes (Node 1, Node 2, Node 3, and Node 4) and three Exchange Virtual Servers (EVS1, EVS2, and EVS3) EVS1 is running on Node 1, EVS2 is running on Node

2, and EVS3 is running on Node 3 Node 4 is the standby node

Note:

If your cluster topology is different than the one in this example, modify the following steps as necessary