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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
Email-LB.vsdx

Jeff Glover

You want to take the Load balancer out of service? Not sure what you mean by Maintenance server here. Are you trying to put an exchange server in Maintenance mode to update it and make all connections go to the live server? If so, Do you need the commands to put an exchange server in Maintenance mode? What version of Exchange? The commands are different for 2010 vs 2013/2016. Once the server is in maint mode, you should be able to just down the link in the load balancer.
If you are trying to completely remove the load balancer, then it is a matter of using DNS to redirect connections.

Barry Fields

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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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Barry Fields

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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)

Jeff Glover

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.

Barry Fields

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THANKS