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August 28, 2007

Using Windows PowerShell to Enable LCR


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Main Article    Setting Up Local Continuous Replication in Exchange 2007

A new command-line environment like Windows PowerShell might be a little intimidating. But, believe it or not, PowerShell and its Exchange Server 2007 extension, Exchange Management Shell, are easy to use and even intuitive. Listing A shows sample syntax for the command you’d need to enable Local Continuous Replication (LCR) on an existing storage group (SG).

The first command, Enable-DatabaseCopy, indicates the order in which to “seed” the mailbox database. (As mentioned in the main article, seeding refers to the creation of the starting point for the LCR version of the database file.) The command is also making a copy of the database from the specified Server/Storage Group/Database (which would be the full path to the .edb file) to the LCR passive-copy location path. The second command, Enable-StorageGroupCopy, is the path for copying the logs and system files. Listing B shows an example of these two commands in a real-world situation. . . .

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