Pablo Vernocchi (pablo@vernocchi.com.ar)MVP Exchange Server

Leandro Amore (leandro.amore@prisma.cc)MVP Directory Services

Disaster Recovery in Exchange 2007

What Will We Cover?

• Planning for disasters

• Avoiding disasters

• Recovering from disasters

Level 300

Helpful Experience

IT administration experience with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003, Exchange 2000 Server, or Exchange Server 5.5

Agenda

• Understanding the Enterprise Topology

• Knowing what and how to protect

• Planning for a disaster

• Using Exchange 2007 disaster recovery

tools

Goals for Exchange 2007

• Increase Server Capacity

• Improve Server Availability

• Enhance Security

Agenda

• Understanding the Enterprise Topology

• Knowing what and how to protect

• Planning for a disaster

• Using Exchange 2007 disaster recovery

tools

Exchange 2007 Server Roles

Perimeter

Exchange 2007 Edge Server

Intranet

Exchange 2007 Server

Exchange 2007 Enterprise Topology

Enterprise Network

OtherSMTP

Servers

Hub Transport

Routing Policy

Applications:OWA, Outlook

Anywhere

Protocols:EAS, POP, IMAP,

Outlook Anywhere

Programmability:Web services, Web

parts

Client Access

EdgeTransport

Routing

Hygiene

PBX or VoIP

INTERNET

Mailbox

Mailbox

PublicFolders

Voice Messaging

Unified Messaging

Fax

Agenda

• Understanding the Enterprise Topology

• Knowing what and how to protect

• Planning for a disaster

• Using Exchange 2007 disaster recovery

tools

Server Installation

• What?

Binaries

Local configuration

• How?

System State Backups

Server Configuration

• What?

Active Directory for UM, Hub, CA, Mailbox

ADAM for Edge

• How?

Active Directory backup

ExportEdgeConfig.msh

End User Data

• What?

SMTP queue

Mailbox database

Public Folder database

• How?

SMTP queue is transient

Database backup/restore

Intranet

Site B

Site A

Server Load Balancing

Perimeter

Local Continuous Replication Clustered Continuous Replication

Active

Passive

Data Replication• Log shipping• Reduce the need to restore• Reduce impact of backup operations

Local Continuous Replication

• TCO reduced

• Improved fault tolerance

• Simplified backup operations

• Enhanced storage recovery

Clustered Continuous Replication

• No single point of failure

• Simplified storage requirements

• Mailbox server can span two data centers

• Simplified installation

• Offload backup workload

Clustering

Single Copy Clustering

• Shared storage architecture

• Resource DLL

• Groups

• Resources

Additional System Redundancies

• Infrastructure

• Power

• Hardware

• Storage

Storage Recommendations

Agenda

• Understanding the Enterprise Topology

• Knowing what and how to protect

• Planning for a disaster

• Using Exchange 2007 disaster recovery

tools

Disasters to Prepare For: Database Loss

• Use LCR/CCR to protect – but only up to

a point

• Perform appropriate backups

• Separate ESE database from logs

Disasters to Prepare For: Machine Loss

• Client Access server

• Hub Transport servers

• Edge Transport servers

• Mailbox servers

• Unified Messaging server

Other Disasters to Prepare For

• Server configuration loss

• Cluster loss

• Datacenter loss

Agenda

• Understanding the Enterprise Topology

• Knowing what and how to protect

• Planning for a disaster

• Using Exchange 2007 disaster recovery

tools

Exchange Server Hosted Services

• Exchange Hosted Filtering• Exchange Hosted Archive• Exchange Hosted Encryption• Exchange Hosted Continuity

Mailbox Recovery Strategies

• Database portability

• Alternate server dial-tone

• Recovery storage group

Additional Recovery Strategies

• Server recovery

• Disaster recovery tools in toolbox

Database Troubleshooter

Database Recovery Management

Database Enhancements

• 50 storage groups and 50 databases

• Longer log file names

• No .STM file

Database Backup and Restore

• Backup methods

• CCR and LCR

• Restore considerations

VSS Enhancements

• Parallel backups

• Restores to alternate file paths

• Up-front error detection

• Option to run recovery

• Restores to RSG or alternate server

Demo

Establishing Dial-tone Access

Move mailbox to provide dial-tone access

demonstration

Demo

Using LCR

Establish LCRVerify LCRTest LCR

demonstration

Demo

Moving a Database

Backup a database from the LCR replicaRestore the database to another serverComplete database portability

demonstration

Demo

Creating a Recovery Storage Group

Create a Recovery Storage GroupBackup First Storage GroupRestore data to RSG

demonstration

Session Summary

• Planning for disasters

• Avoiding disasters

• Recovering from disasters

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