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Moving Exchange Archiving Role to a new EV server

tanial
Level 2
Partner Accredited

Hi all,

I have a single EV server, which handles both Exchange and FS archiving (in separate Vault Stores).

At this point, I would like to spilt those roles into two servers.

I was looking for a step by step procedure that could help me move the whole Exchange Archiving role to a newly added EV server, but so far I didn't find anything.

The original EV server will be upgraded to version 9.0 SP1 before the split.

I would appreciate any help,

Tania

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Wayne_Humphrey
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Tania,

Thats quite easy I have not seen a doc like this, but I am not saying there is not one.

You would need to do the following:

realighn all the indexing, and storage services (split them) - see bellow technotes (NO1 is a must, but you will need to figure out the rest)

create the new archiving tasks on the new server

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH47388

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH55377

If you not experanced, I would highly recomend calling Professional Services or a partner to help you with this.

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Wayne_Humphrey
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Tania,

Thats quite easy I have not seen a doc like this, but I am not saying there is not one.

You would need to do the following:

realighn all the indexing, and storage services (split them) - see bellow technotes (NO1 is a must, but you will need to figure out the rest)

create the new archiving tasks on the new server

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH47388

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH55377

If you not experanced, I would highly recomend calling Professional Services or a partner to help you with this.

tanial
Level 2
Partner Accredited

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for your answer,

I understand how to move the Mailboxes Vault Store  and assign it to the new Storage Service on the target computer. However, I'm not sure what to do with the Indexes in this situation.

Until now, all the FS and Mailbox Indexes where handled by a single Indexing Service. I read the "Moving the Indexing service" howto, but haven't found a way to split only the Mailbox-related indexes to the new Indexing service.

Looks like I'll have to leave the Indexes on the original server, even though it's not the best practice to separate it from the Storage Service.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Tania

 

Wayne_Humphrey
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Tania,

You will need to update IndexServiceEntryId for each Mailbox Archive you wish to move, then copy the data accorss and upate the IndexServiceEntry

 

SELECT * [RootIdentity]
      ,[VaultEntryId]
      ,[ServiceEntryId]
      ,[SiteEntryId]
      ,[Description]
      ,[AdminNote]
      ,[IndexingCanChangeLocation]
      ,[IndexingCanDelete]
      ,[NumberOfIndexingLocations]
      ,[ComputerEntryId]
      ,[ComputerName]
      ,[ComputerRootPath]
      ,[ComputerAdminNote]
      ,[VaultSoftwareVersion]
      ,[ComputerNameAlternate]
      ,[FileServerManagementUrn]
      ,[SvcNamesUpgradeState]
  FROM [EnterpriseVaultDirectory].[dbo].[ArchiveIndexingServiceView]