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by waelnady1

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I have already a machine running as win2003 DC and Exchange 2003, lately it start to hang or restart and giving error messages(2102, 8026, 8026,?)
I'm thinking of adding anew machine to implement exchange high availability to limit the down time when the first machine and use 3rd party application to make replication between the two machines

I'm new to this .and need suggestions about the right way to do this
(if I need to migrate mailboxes or install 2nd DC if needed to support authentication if the first machine is down or any other ideas)
Plz help

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by churdoo

Seems to me that it will be a lot easier to research and fix the initial problem rather than try to figure out a way to keep exchange on the existing troublesome server with some sort of third-party hot standby solution.

Based on a quick google of those event id's, if you don't fix them, they could potentially affect something else later. Do yourself a favor and research that.

Run DCDIAG, and check and also make sure there are no old DC's listed in the Domain Controllers OU in ADUC. Make sure your AD is in proper health and your server is stable before you do anything, then re-evaluate.

If you need high availability, then fix the problem and then implement a clustered exchange environment.

If you don't need the HA, and it's just a workaround to the unstable server, then get the new server and migrate exchange over to the new server and remove it from the old. But still fix the problem on the old server.

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