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PowerShell Scripts for Balancing Database Availability Groups
One of the recommendations in Microsoft's Preferred Architecture for Exchange Server 2013 is to distribute active database copies evenly across all members of a database availability group. As with the...
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Can Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 Servers Be Added to the Same Database...
Q: Can a Database Availability Group have a mix of Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 members? A: No. When information about Windows Server 10 began to emerge one of the interesting items...
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Installing an Exchange Server 2016 Database Availability Group
In this tutorial I will walk you through the installation of an Exchange Server 2016 database availability group. For this example a DAG with two members in the same site is being created, with a third...
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Server Component States During Cumulative Update Installation
If you've performed maintenance on a database availability group member before, then you're likely already familiar with the procedures for putting DAG members in and out of maintenance mode. If this...
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Using Activation Policies to Prevent Database Copies Mounting in Other Sites
A lot of organizations that deploy multi-site database availability groups do so with the intention of using one site for normal production operations, and one for disaster recovery. This design...
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New DAG Activation Preference Behavior in Exchange 2016 CU2 is Good News for...
In Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2), Microsoft is changing the behavior of database availability groups. Starting with CU2 (which will be releasing soon), the Primary Active Manager in...
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Using Test-ReplicationHealth to Troubleshoot Database Availability Groups
Database availability groups are reasonably smart and robust systems, but they do need monitoring, or else you might find one day they are not providing the HA that you need them to. One of the useful...
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Recovering a Failed Exchange 2016 Database Availability Group Member
If you're running an Exchange 2016 database availability group, and one of the DAG members fails, you can recover the DAG member to restore the high availability of your Exchange mailbox databases....
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Is a Domain Controller Required When Using Azure to Host the File Share...
I received a question in my mailbox overnight from a reader of the 70-345 exam reference. I figured it would be helpful to post the answer here as well, since it is probably a question that many people...
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How Small is Too Small for a Database Availability Group?
A question from a Twitter following: Is it not overkill for an organization with fewer than 100 mailboxes and a single site to have a DAG implemented? Database availability groups are the high...
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