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Hi,<br />
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I used the steps detailed at the end of this article to test my implementation of SCR:<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137735.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137735.aspx</a><br />
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There's not a great deal to it. You may have to repair the database with eseutil, depends how consistent it is when you fail the main server.<br />
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HTH<br />
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Chris
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Hi,<br />
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Thanks for your response. That gives you option for Database portability, when database is corrupt. I'm looking for site down situation because of T1 failure. The link mentioned in the original post is the most closest that I can<br />
find, except that it gives instruction for clustered nodes.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Ganesh.<br />
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The method is the same if you're activating a Standby Copy whether the server blows up, the disk fails, or the link is down.<br />
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If you want to use the SCR copy you must make the configuration changes to make it live and re-link all mailboxes to the new copy.<br />
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Chris
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I still can't find a perfect article to do this. I had to call Microsoft Advisory Services and they don't have one either. 
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Three geographic sites connected with cisco site-to-site vpn. Main office site&nbsp;has<br />
two exchange servers, E2K7-CA1 (cas and hub server) and E2K7-MB1 (mailbox server).<br />
Branch office site 1&nbsp;has 2 exchange servers, E2K7-CA2 (cas and hub server) and <br />
E2K7-MB2 (mailbox server). Storage group called production&nbsp;in E2K7-MB1 has been<br />
configured to replicate to E2K7-MB2 using SCR. Domain controllers are available in each<br />
site.<br />
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I'm looking for a good article on how to activate and test the validity of the SCR target. <br />
I also want to activate the scr source back again after finishing the testing. MX records<br />
for the domain already have priority set to send email to both servers, with Main Office site<br />
at a lower priority number.<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150(EXCHG.80).aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150(EXCHG.80).aspx</a><br />
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Above article shows on how to do this in a clustered node. But we don't have clusters here.
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Three geographic sites connected with cisco site-to-site vpn. Main office site has
two exchange servers, E2K7-CA1 (cas and hub server) and E2K7-MB1 (mailbox server).
Branch office site 1 has 2 exchange servers, E2K7-CA2 (cas and hub server) and 
E2K7-MB2 (mailbox server). Storage group called production in E2K7-MB1 has been
configured to replicate to E2K7-MB2 using SCR. Domain controllers are available in each
site.

I'm looking for a good article on how to activate and test the validity of the SCR target. 
I also want to activate the scr source back again after finishing the testing. MX records
for the domain already have priority set to send email to both servers, with Main Office site
at a lower priority number.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150(EXCHG.80).aspx

Above article shows on how to do this in a clustered node. But we don't have clusters here.

Need Step-by-Step article on activating SCR target and then re-activate scr source.

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.