Well if you gone this far you should be in good condition, and tell you the truth all the Hard stuff is behind us and now you should work with the Exchange2007 GUI and it’s much more easier.
Remember that we need to install the Exchange 2007 on both Nodes, Node1 will be used as the Active and Node2 will be the Passive .
Setting up the Active node
Log-in to Node1 with Domain Admins permeations and brows to the Exchange 2007 directory (I hope that you already copy the Exchange directory on both nodes for easy access)and run the “Setup.exe” to start the Exchange2007 wizard.
Now you should see the Wizard on your screen ,follow the following steps :
Step 1: Install.NET frameworks 2.0 -> don’t break your head and simply install it .
Step 2: Install the MMC console -> read step 1.
Step 3:Install Microsoft Command Shell(MSH) -> If you gone this far you should be able to handle it yourself .
Step 4: Install Microsoft Exchange -> Finally!!! You may said , here we going to install the Active copy in our CCR environment, a new wizard will open with the following configuration :
Error Reporting -> Click YES and press next (Believe me it will save you a lot of time in case you have future problems in your environment).
Installation Type -> Chose the “Custom” options because we need to install unique role ,Next.
Server Role Selection -> here you should choose “Active Clustered Mailbox Role”, next.
Cluster Settings-> here we have some additional configuration we need to choose
Select Cluster Type :
Chose CCR (First option).
Clustered Mailbox Server Name :
The name you specify here will be the name that your Outlook clients will need to specify when they set their mailboxes .
Clustered Mailbox Server IP Address :
Here you need to give a Unique(Exclude this address if you using DHCP server ) IP address from your Public Segment
Path:
Keep the default path .
Setting up the Passive node
Well it’s easy all you need to do is to connect to Node2 and perform the same steps as we did in the Active Node . The only thing you need to do different is to choose passive and not active when the Cluster Wizard become online .
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