Exchange 2010 - setting up CAS array after mailbox creation
I'm working towards setting up some redundancy for exchange 2010. Unfortunately I did not create a CAS array during my initial setup and now need to go back and fix this. I have clear directions for setting up the CAS (http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-server-2010-cas-array) but could use a little help figuring out how to get my clients connected to it after its been setup. I'm mostly worried about my Citrix users. Is there a script I can run or some other way to automate updating everyone's profile or would I need to slug it out manually for each mailbox?
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Hi PaciB
That almost sounds too good to be true! I've posted here several times with various exchange setup questions and one item that seemed to come back to haunt me is not setting up the CAS right away. A number of people have commented that I will have a lot of work ahead of me since I didn't set it up at the beginning. Here is one post for reference:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27923040/Making-exchange-2010-highly-available.html
Would you mind reviewing that one and let me know if what you see there matches your experience? What I'm being told is that each Outlook profile would need to be repaired if I add a CAS after setting up the mailboxes.
That almost sounds too good to be true! I've posted here several times with various exchange setup questions and one item that seemed to come back to haunt me is not setting up the CAS right away. A number of people have commented that I will have a lot of work ahead of me since I didn't set it up at the beginning. Here is one post for reference:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27923040/Making-exchange-2010-highly-available.html
Would you mind reviewing that one and let me know if what you see there matches your experience? What I'm being told is that each Outlook profile would need to be repaired if I add a CAS after setting up the mailboxes.
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Awesome, this makes perfect sense now. Thank you for taking the additional time to check the other articles, very much appreciated.
Am I correct that the mailbox move will only point them to the Databases's CAS Array hostname only if the mailbox was not pointing to an existing CAS Array hostname?
If it was pointing to CAS-Array-1, then you do a mailbox move to a database that is CAS-Array-2, the profile will still be pointing to CAS-Array-1?
But if the mailbox was not pointing to CAS-Array-1, and instead just mail1server.domain.com, then it will point to the CAS-Array-2 after it's moved?
If it was pointing to CAS-Array-1, then you do a mailbox move to a database that is CAS-Array-2, the profile will still be pointing to CAS-Array-1?
But if the mailbox was not pointing to CAS-Array-1, and instead just mail1server.domain.com, then it will point to the CAS-Array-2 after it's moved?
There's nothing to do on MAPI clients (Outlook).
After your create your CAS Array object and a DNS record fir it you use Set-MailboxDatabase to change the RpcClientAccessServer on every existing database with the FQDN of the CAS Array.
Next time MAPI client will connect they will be reconfigured to use the FDQN that now appears in the RpcClientAccessServer attribute of their database.
All will look like a mailbox move in fact...
The only required thing is to close Outlook and relaunch it.
Have a good day.