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How to migrate from Exchange 2007 CCR to
Exchange 2010 DAG on existing hardware (Part
1)
This article discusses the migration preparation from Exchange 2007 CCR to
Exchange 2010 SPI DAG.
Published: Dec 21, 2010
Updated: Jan 27, 2011
Section: High Availability & Recovery
Author: Markus Klein
Rating: 3.5/5 - 20 Votes
If you would like to read the next part in this article series please go to How to migrate from Exchange 2007
CCR to Exchange 2010 DAG on existing hardware (Part 2).
Introduction
If you are currently running an Exchange Server 2007 Organization with high availability conguration in a
Cluster Continuous Replication Setup and you are planning to upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 SP1, you
are often considering a way to move without changing your hardware. The reason for this might be that the
hardware is only 1-2 years old or has been leased for ve years.
In these series of articles we will discuss the way to move to Exchange 2010 SP1 DAG (Database Availability
Group) setup without having to buy new hardware. The plan implicates that you are losing high availability
over a short period of time but if you are planning the migration on a straight-forward project, the time
window you are running with no high availability can be calculated and is quite short.
Preparations
As one of the rst steps before you start your project plan to move to Exchange 2010 SP1 you should check
if your existing hardware is suitable for Windows Server 2008 R2. In general one of the preparation steps is
to ash your servers ROM to the newest available release to make sure that Windows Server 2008 R2 is
supported. You can easily check this here.
After being successful with your hardware compatibility the next step is to update your Exchange Server
2007 environment to be prepared for Exchange Server 2010 SP1. The easiest way to do this is updating your
current messaging infrastructure (all servers in your Exchange Server 2007 environment) to Exchange
Server 2007 SP3. The way to update is starting on your servers with the Client Access Role, moving to those
ones that hold the Hub Transport Role and nally moving to the Mailbox Server Role. You can download
Service Pack 3 here.
Also you need to make sure to update your CCR environment as described below in order to make
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everything work properly after the update.
Updating Exchange Server 2007 CCR to Service Pack 3
Basically Exchange Server 2007 supports rolling Service Pack Updates, you only need to make sure that you
are always upgrading the passive cluster node.
The straight forward method can be run as follows:
Move all cluster resource group to Node A 1.
Stop performance counter Services and System Center Operations Manager Services (if installed) 2.
Restart the Remote Registry Service 3.
Open a Command prompt and navigate to the Exchange Server 2007 SP3 installation les logged on
as Exchange Organization administrative Group member
4.
Run the following command:
SETUP /m:upgradeSetup
5.
Restart Node B after Setup has completed 6.
After having nished the passive Node B is running SP3 7.
Now you need to run the Stop-ClusteredMailboxServer cmdlet to stop the clustered mailbox server
using the following syntax:
Stop-ClusteredMailboxServer <Clustername> -StopReason "Upgrade to SP2"
8.
Now we need to move the clustered mailbox server to Node B using
Move-ClusteredMailboxServer <Clustername> -TargetMachine
<NODEB> -MoveComment "Upgrade to SP2"
9.
At a Command Prompt navigate to the Exchange 2007 SP3 installation les 10.
Run the following command to upgrade your CCR Cluster:
Setup /upgradecmsSetup
11.
Setup upgrades the CCR server and brings it back online again 12.
Now we need to stop any services that have open handles to performance counters and System Center
Operations Manager Service on Node A
13.
Restart the Remote Registry service 14.
Open a Command Prompt and then navigate to the Exchange 2007 SP3 installation les 15.
Run the following command on Node A to upgrade it to Exchange 2007 SP3:
Setup /m:upgradeSetup
16.
Restart Node A to nish the upgrade to Exchange Server 2007 SP3 completely 17.
Use Exchange Best Practice Analyzer to check whether further conguration changes need to be done
before the update
Update Active Directory Schema to Exchange Server 2010 SP1
18.
As a next step we will need to import the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 schema to your Windows Server 2008
based Active Directory environment.
The easiest way to do this is as follows:
Logon as member of the Active Directory Groups of Enterprise Administrators and Schema
Administrators on one of your existing Exchange Servers.
1.
At rst we need to make sure that non Exchange Server 2007 or 2010 servers can run properly in the
new security model:
setup /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions or setup /pl
If no Exchange Server 2003 or earlier versions are part of your Exchange Organization you can
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successfully skip this command.
Afterwards we need to import the new schema entries to your Active Directory Schema Master using
this command:
setup /PrepareSchema or setup /ps
3.
Now we need to automatically create some security groups and further settings for Exchange Server
2010 SP1:
setup /PrepareAD or setup /p
4.
Finally we need to make sure that all security groups are properly lled in using:
setup /PrepareAllDomains or setup /pad
The easiest way is to run this properly for all existing domains in one step. If you do not want to do
this, you can run
setup /PrepareDomain or setup /pd
5.
After having nished this procedure you should make sure that Active Directory replication took place and
has nished successfully. You can check this using the Event Log on your Domain Controllers.
Decommissioning your passive Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Node
Now after having nished all necessary steps we can start over with the migration to Exchange Server 2010
SP1 DAG by decommissioning your passive Exchange Server 2007 SP3 node. When starting this task, you
will lose redundancy temporary.
The steps for this procedure are as follows:
Make sure that all Databases are running on the active node 1.
Move responsibility of OAB-Generation to the active node 2.
Uninstall Exchange Server 2007 SP3 from your passive cluster node using:
Setup /mode:uninstall
3.
Evict the formerly passive node from Failover Clustering 4.
Disjoin the machine from Active Directory and shutdown the computer 5.
Finally we have nished freeing up server hardware to prepare the rollout of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 on
this machine in the future.
Conclusion
adverti sement
With this straight forward method you have nished the preparations to free up one of your Exchange
Server machines for Exchange Server 2010 SP1, the next step is described in Part 2 of this article series.
If you would like to read the next part in this article series please go to How to migrate from Exchange 2007
CCR to Exchange 2010 DAG on existing hardware (Part 2).
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About Markus Klein
Markus Klein is a Information Worker and System Center Specialist and Microsoft Certied
Trainer. He has had 15 years of experience working as a Senior Consultant and Trainer for
VAS Value Added Services GmbH, a Microsoft Gold Certied Partner System Center with well
connections directly to Microsoft and deep experiences since 2003 with System Center
Opalis. He is specialized in System Center Management (Operation Manager, Service
Manager, Data Protection Manager and Opalis), Active Directory, Exchange, Lync Server and
Microsoft Virtualization and ForeFront Solutions.
Click here for Markus Klein's section.
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