Domain Controller As Witness Server Exchange 2016
Sadly exchange 2010 sp3 won t work with 2019 domain.
Domain controller as witness server exchange 2016. For exchange server 2016 the high availability building block is the database availability group dag. Hosting the file share witness for an exchange server 2013 or 2016 database availability group in azure has been supported since early 2015. Installing a new exchange server 2016 database availability group.
Confirm quorum configuration if you have any. While this is definitely not recommended practise in a production environment and may have undesirable results it will probably work. This cmdlet is available only in on premises exchange.
If already connected then all is okay other wise you have to connect your computer to domain first. The instructions are the same for exchange 2013 and will work for both an ip less ad detached dag or a dag with an administrative access point. The witness share will be setup on a domain controller running windows server 2008 r2.
Exchange server 2010 exchange server 2013 exchange server 2016 exchange server 2019. In this article syntax get domain controller. For information about the parameter sets in the syntax section below see exchange cmdlet syntax.
Automatic datacenter failover in exchange 2013 requires three physical sites but many of our customers with stretched dags. If you are running exchange 2010 sp3 to be able to have windows server 2016 domain controllers you need to be on a minimum of ru22 or higher in your environment. I m happy to announce support for use of an azure virtual machine as an exchange 2013 database availability group witness server.
I highly doubt microsoft support this though i have been unable to find any concrete evidence on it. If you re setting up exchange 2013 in a lab you may have a requirement to use a domain controller as a file share witness fsw host. If you are on lower versions you will need to first upgrade all exchange servers to the latest rollup ru to have the 2016 domain controllers work in your environment.