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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

  1. Create a new folder say FSW_ClusterName
  2. Share this folder and give the Cluster Service Account Full Control shared permissions
  3. 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

4Feb/104

26 things I shouldn’t forget about Exchange 2010 DAG, nor should you!

I am currently involved in planning and designing a couple of site resilient Microsoft Exchange 2010 clusters so I have been reviewing my notes and here is one I would like to share with you.

In short it is the summary of  an 11 pages long technet document in 26 points I had previously highlighted on papers.