Procedure for puttin exchange into maintenance mode
I have a Barracuda load balancer in front of two Exchange mail servers. I want a procedure for taking on load balancer out of service gracefully forcing all connections on the "maintenance server" to connect to the live server
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You got it, I want to put the Exchange server into maintenance mode in order to update it
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Jeff one last question; How do you verify all components except Monitoring and RecoveryActionsEnabled are set to Inactive
Get-ServercomponentState -Identity <ServerName> | ft Component,state -Autosize
(verify that all components except Monitoring and RecoveryActionsEnabled are set to Inactive. This means you are in maint mode)
Get-ServercomponentState -Identity <ServerName> | ft Component,state -Autosize
(verify that all components except Monitoring and RecoveryActionsEnabled are set to Inactive. This means you are in maint mode)
The output of that command will list all the components and will show either active or inactive. This step is not really a required step, just a check I like to do. You can run that command on an Exchange server at anytime. You may not see all components as active depending on what Exchange is doing at the time but it gives you a pretty good idea.
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If you are trying to completely remove the load balancer, then it is a matter of using DNS to redirect connections.