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Best to have full backup before any maintenance activity. Then you can shut them down normally.
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Best to have full backup before any maintenance activity. Then you can shut them down normally.

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There is no maintenance being done on the Exchange Servers specifically so you can just power down the servers. <br />
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Will.
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There is no maintenance being done on the Exchange Servers specifically so you can just power down the servers.

Will.

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No Maintenance on the servers, I have 6 of them, 4 Active DBs and 4 passive DBs on each one of them.
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No Maintenance on the servers, I have 6 of them, 4 Active DBs and 4 passive DBs on each one of them.

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Check this<br />
<a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/46086577-583e-4cd7-bd80-e90a9a97b7b6/safe-shutdown-exchange-2013-dag?forum=exchangesvravailabilityandisasterrecovery" rel="ugc nofollow">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/46086577-583e-4cd7-bd80-e90a9a97b7b6/safe-shutdown-exchange-2013-dag?forum=exchangesvravailabilityandisasterrecovery</a>
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Check this
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/46086577-583e-4cd7-bd80-e90a9a97b7b6/safe-shutdown-exchange-2013-dag?forum=exchangesvravailabilityandisasterrecovery [https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/46086577-583e-4cd7-bd80-e90a9a97b7b6/safe-shutdown-exchange-2013-dag?forum=exchangesvravailabilityandisasterrecovery]

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Due to Electricity Maintenance, I need to power off all Exchange 2013 servers, is there any good practice?
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Due to Electricity Maintenance, I need to power off all Exchange 2013 servers, is there any good practice?

Powering off all Exchange 2013 servers

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.