18Mar/101
Moving the File Share Witness of a CCR cluster in Exchange 2007
I have recently needed to move the File Share Witness on a Microsoft Exchange 2007 CCR cluster from its original location to an alternate server and I will share with you how to do it in case you are faced with a similar scenarion.
Step 1: Create & Configure the new File Share Witness
On the server you want to host the new File Share Witness
- Create a new folder say FSW_ClusterName
- Share this folder and give the Cluster Service Account Full Control shared permissions
- As far as NTFS permissions grant Administrators and the Cluster Service Account Full Control
Step 2: Moving the File Share Witness
To move it use the following commands
cluster ClusterName resource "Majority Node Set" /priv MNSFileShare=\\newserver\FSW_ClusterName
cluster ClusterName group "Cluster Group" /move
to verify the new settings you can run once agaon
cluster ClusterName resource "Majority Node Set" /priv
Of course in the above replace
ClusterServiceAccount, CusterName, NewServer and FSW_ClusterName by their respective values in your environment
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About Antoine Khater
I have been working in IT consultancy and solution integration since 1998 and I consider myself lucky to be, one in a few, making a living out of my passion. I am also member of the famous Experts Exchange (profile here) online community where I try my best to share what I have learned along the road.-
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