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We currently have two exchange 2003 servers, 1 backend, 1 front end…. I need
to setup clustering for high availability.

Question: should I upgrade to 2007 first and then setup clustering or setup
clustering first and upgrade the nodes in the cluster?

Note: Currently exchange is running on windows standard which means I would
have to setup new servers anyway to have clustering.


Any help is greatly appreciated.

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:55:01 -0700, Ari
wrote:

>We currently have two exchange 2003 servers, 1 backend, 1 front end�. I need
>to setup clustering for high availability.
>
>Question: should I upgrade to 2007 first and then setup clustering or setup
>clustering first and upgrade the nodes in the cluster?
>
>Note: Currently exchange is running on windows standard which means I would
>have to setup new servers anyway to have clustering.
>
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.


You have to install the O/S and have clustering already configured
before you can install Exchange 2007

thanks but it didnt answer my question

"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:55:01 -0700, Ari
> wrote:
>[color=green]
> >We currently have two exchange 2003 servers, 1 backend, 1 front end…. I need
> >to setup clustering for high availability.
> >
> >Question: should I upgrade to 2007 first and then setup clustering or setup
> >clustering first and upgrade the nodes in the cluster?
> >
> >Note: Currently exchange is running on windows standard which means I would
> >have to setup new servers anyway to have clustering.
> >
> >
> >Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> You have to install the O/S and have clustering already configured
> before you can install Exchange 2007
>[/color]

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:31:01 -0700, Ari
wrote:

>thanks but it didnt answer my question

And what was that?

What part did he not answer?
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"Ari" wrote in message
news:FB648E22-9195-41B8-9C8D-1BFE24801F6E@microsoft.com...
> thanks but it didnt answer my question
>
> "Andy David {MVP}" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:55:01 -0700, Ari
>> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> >We currently have two exchange 2003 servers, 1 backend, 1 front end…. I
>> >need
>> >to setup clustering for high availability.
>> >
>> >Question: should I upgrade to 2007 first and then setup clustering or
>> >setup
>> >clustering first and upgrade the nodes in the cluster?
>> >
>> >Note: Currently exchange is running on windows standard which means I
>> >would
>> >have to setup new servers anyway to have clustering.
>> >
>> >
>> >Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> You have to install the O/S and have clustering already configured
>> before you can install Exchange 2007
>>[/color][/color]

If i am not wrong then whenever you want to upgrade your environment from
2003 to 2007 then you have to uninstall the cluster first.

So, now the second one you are using Standard edition so you first need to
upgrade that one to another server .Then install 2007 on that server &
transfer the mailboxes & public folders to that new server.

& as per your requirement that you want to make it clustered then simply
select this is an clustered server at the time of Exchange server 2007
installation.

Thanks. Ajit D.



"Ari" wrote:

> We currently have two exchange 2003 servers, 1 backend, 1 front end…. I need
> to setup clustering for high availability.
>
> Question: should I upgrade to 2007 first and then setup clustering or setup
> clustering first and upgrade the nodes in the cluster?
>
> Note: Currently exchange is running on windows standard which means I would
> have to setup new servers anyway to have clustering.
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>