Can someone please confirm that the best practice is NOT to perform a quick
format on an Exchange cluste disk partition. I remember reading it in a
Microsoft technical article but cannot find the article.
If you know the link to the MS article it would be very helpful.

got a two node a/p cluster setup, been testing the failovers (e.g move group,
initiating test failure on each resource, disconnecting the fibre connection,
powering off the node) and everything seems apart from the when i physically
pull out the network cable on the public ...

We have an A/P cluster on Windows 2000 SP4 in spanish with Exchange 2000 SP3
in spanish, and we want to upgrade it to Windows 2003 with Exchange 2003
both in english.
I've found this Howto:

I have a 2 node cluster both running Exchange 2003. I need to install SP2 but
on one node it says I need to failover the virtual directory to another node.
I need to do this manually, but I cannot find any failover option.
Can someone give me the step-by-step?

Can someone help me out, this happened last time when I applied Service Pack
1 to my Exchange 2003 cluster.
Do I use the same steps as before?
Cluster res "<your system attendent resource name" /priv

I have an A/A/P cluster. On occasion the HTTP virtual server from either
active node will cause the virtual server to fail-over. When this happens I
notice that the node that was the owner of the resource has a different IP
address for the HTTP virtual server.

Dear All,
I am New to the world of exchange.
While i am reading, the installation requirements, i red that its needs (
IIS ) to be installed on the Same Machine as the Exchange server will be

Can you migrate a standalone Exchange 5.5 three server to a two node cluster.
They have a NT domain and have already stood up a AD.newdomain.com. Migrated
there clients and now want to do a intraorg coexistence. Is this a support
strategy?

In Exchange 2000 when installing Exchange on the 1st Cluster a "Cluster-aware
version dialog box" pops up...
Is this still true with Exchange 2003?

So far I have configured the 2003 Cluster with 2 nodes.
I've ran Forest then Domain prep now I have just installed MSDTC as a
Cluster Resource.  Is the next step to install WINs as a resource?
I've found a paper on Exchange 2000 cluster setup and it doesn't mention this.

I'm trying to create an exchange 2k3 cluster on windows 2k3 enterprise
member servers.  The projected cluster passes the feasibility check in the
wizard.  After that when I attempt to create the cluster I get an account
error "the account name is invalid or does not exist, or the ...

I have a 7 node Exchange 2003 cluster (5A/2P)
I am trying to bring the virtual servers offline, the first 4 go offline
ok, but the 5th hangs, until the SMTP virtual server instance fails.
It is not tied to any one server, but the last in the group of 5 that I

I have a two node (A/P) cluster.  When I move the Exchange resources from
Node1 to Node2, it takes longer than expected (~5min) and I think it is
related to the MSExchangeSA servcie not completely stopping.  When on look on
Node1 after the resources are failed over to Node2, the ...

I've followed the recomended practice for upgrading my cluster (
     Article ID : 867624
).
The Front end server upgrade was fine. During back-end cluster upgrade, I

Will Exchange12 be supported on a Active/Active Windows 2003/R2 cluster,
rumor has this configuration will not be supported.   Is there any truth to
this?
Thanks,