Dag on diferent sites

Dear all,
I am strungling the last 2 days trying to configure dag on exchnage 2010 SP2 between our primary and secondary site. Each site is on diferent subnet, each server has only one nic. I have tried alsmost everything(disable firewalls,restarts,dns,active directory,
delete end recreate the cluster, search the error on web, etc...) The erros i see are mentined below. Always the problem is when i try to add the second node. But i can add the second node as first node with no problem, always the problem is adding the second
node.
"Failed to initialize cluster with error 0x80004005."
"An error occurred while trying to write to the cluster database. Error: OpenCluster failed with error 1753."
" dwStatus = 0x5b4 "

Hi,
is it a LAN or WAN link between you both sites? The cluster heartbeat could be the problem if you checked all other thins already.
However, you may be able to solve it with this informations:
http://www.projectleadership.net/blogs_details.php?id=2412
http://www.expta.com/2011/11/adjusting-exchange-2010-dag-failover-in.html
Cheers
Dominik

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Urgent Help / suggestion Needed - DAG in Differnt Site - Implementaion

Hi All
Current setup of my lab is below -
MAIN SITE - Named Head Office
Root Domain Controller : IP 172.29.154.1 / 255.255.0.0
Two node DAG : - Mailbox servers - DAG NAME - DAG1
Casarray (casaarray1 , and casarray2) servers
One hub transport server
Total 6 VM servers are running in the head office site
Created a new AD site for name Branch Office and installed a addition domain controller with IP of 10.10.10.1/255.0.0.0
Now i would like to implement the DAG between the sites .
how can i implement, i mean what are the best ways to implement the DAG between two sites
1. shall i go for typical installation of exchange (CAS, HUB , MAILBOX ) 2010 in main office and Branch office . will it support DAG between two sites for typical installation?
2. shall i install one more Mailbox server alone in MAIN SITE and install CAS and hub in one server and mailbox alone in the branch office site? i mean - two Mailbox servers in each site
any other best ways other than above two points , the main intention is to implementing, testing and learning the site resilience between the sites and want to know the stuffs in and around DAC
Thanks in advance

so, i was assuming that i will add one mbx server in main site and another mbx server in branch site and make it HA via DAG --- is it possible
Next option
i can go for typical installation of ( CAS , HUB MBX server (all three in in one server) in main site and another three server roles (aal in one server) of Branch office and make the mailbox for HA -- will it possible
how can i achieve the HA with my current setup between the sites
If your bandwidth and latency between sites  you
can have  HA for mailbox databases by adding a mailbox server as a member in the current DAG. DAG will
give you only HA for mailbox not HUB/CAS.
After you installed the Mailbox role on the branch server, You have to set autodiscover site affinity.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998575(v=exchg.141).aspx
It is little bit complicated if you want HA over 2 sites, It depends on the bandwidth and latency between sites. If
you install all the 3 roles and configure the branch site as part of the main branch ADsite you can have highly availability for CAS by a load balancer and this is not a small change. i.e. add the branch server to the Main office CAS
Array and load balance.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL401
If the branch site is not Internet facing, Please check this.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310763(v=exchg.141).aspx
adding an MBX/HUB/CAS in your branch office and buy a hardware load balancer of your budget. List
of MS supported HLBs here.  Configure the load balancer to according to your bandwidth and latency
between sites.
Thanks, MAS
Please mark as helpful if you find my comment helpful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.
Couple of comments please!
Autodiscover sitescope is a function of CAS not mailbox. This is written into AD when the CAS role is installed.
Why are you splitting all the roles out like this? The recommendation in 2010 and 2013 is to multirole whenever possible. There are valid reasons for splitting, I just want to know what's driving you to this.
The preferred DC switch is just for the current PowerShell session IIRC. I'll check up on that though.
I'd ask you to look at the design examples on TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979781(v=exchg.141).aspx
In all of this, you have to consider what the impact of a failed WAN link(s) will do. If you have a single DAG spanning both locations, and the WAN goes down then in the case of a single DAG spanned between both of the sites some users will not have
access to a local mailbox server. The cluster service terminates and so does the Exchange store. That is by design.
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No client access on DAG switchover - Single site

Let’s summarize my environment:
I have 3 Exchange 2013 SP1 (cu4) server in one site. CAS01, only have cas role and MBX01&MBX02 have only mailbox. Both mailbox are in a DAG (DAG01).
The server mounting my database is MBX02. Whenever a switchover to MBX01 occur (or when I force it whith Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase –server MBX02 -ActivateOnServer MBX01), all my client get disconnected so no more outlook, active sync
and even owa. As soon as I roll them back on MBX02, everything returns to normal. However, every single email delivered while the DAG was mounted on MBX01 are getting delivered to the mailbox server so dag is working properly for the mail flow, minus the client
access HA.
Now I know that on Exchange 2010 and the issue could have been with the value of –rpcclientaccessserver on my database, but this value is not used anymore on 2013.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi S.Nithyanandham
1. No my servers are working pretty fine is I create a non dag DB on MBX01, Client access and mail flow is fine. Turning off both Windows firewall didn’t
change anything
2.
Server Check                Result Error
MBX01 ClusterService       Passed
MBX01 ReplayService        Passed
MBX01 ActiveManager        Passed
MBX01 TasksRpcListener     Passed
MBX01 TcpListener          Passed
MBX01 ServerLocatorService Passed
MBX01 DagMembersUp         Passed
MBX01 ClusterNetwork       Passed
MBX01 QuorumGroup          Passed
MBX01 FileShareQuorum      Passed
MBX01 DatabaseRedundancy   Passed
MBX01 DatabaseAvailability Passed
Server Check                Result Error
MBX02 ClusterService       Passed
MBX02 ReplayService        Passed
MBX02 ActiveManager        Passed
MBX02 TasksRpcListener     Passed
MBX02 TcpListener          Passed
MBX02 ServerLocatorService Passed
MBX02 DagMembersUp         Passed
MBX02 ClusterNetwork       Passed
MBX02 QuorumGroup          Passed
MBX02 FileShareQuorum      Passed
MBX02 DatabaseRedundancy   Passed
MBX02 DatabaseAvailability Passed
MBX02 DBCopySuspended      Passed
MBX02 DBCopyFailed         Passed
MBX02 DBInitializing       Passed
MBX02 DBDisconnected       Passed
MBX02 DBLogCopyKeepingUp   Passed
MBX02 DBLogReplayKeepingUp Passed
3. I’ve double check that and recreated the dag binding multiple time with no luck.
4. yes they are
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-mailboxdatabasecopystatus | ft -au
Name      Status CopyQueueLength ReplayQueueLength LastInspectedLogTime ContentIndexState
DB1\MBX01 Mounted 0               0
Healthy
DB2\MBX01 Mounted 0               0
      Healthy
DB3\MBX01 Mounted 0               0
Healthy
DB4\MBX01 Mounted 0               0
Healthy
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-mailboxdatabasecopystatus -server mbx02 | ft -au
Name      Status CopyQueueLength ReplayQueueLength LastInspectedLogTime ContentIndexState
DB1\MBX02 Healthy 0               0                 2015-01-12 19:57:58 Healthy
DB2\MBX02 Healthy 0               0                 2015-01-12 19:58:10 Healthy
DB3\MBX02 Healthy 0               0                 2015-01-12 19:58:07 Healthy
DB4\MBX02 Healthy 0               0                 2015-01-12 20:00:23 Healthy
5. None except those related to the failover if I bring MBX02 down
6. File share is fine and acessible.
Then please explain me what you are trying to say on the below mentioned line?
When I have a failover and database are mounted and healthy I can’t connect trougth any devices but email sent to my organization are devilered in databases correctly. I can see them with Get-MessageTrackingLog. In addition, my Wtachguard
in front of my cas is not reporting any bounce or error, everything is delivred and queue is empty inside it.
A big Thank you for your help
Alex
Alexandre Contant

Recommded DAG for 4 site Exchange Org

Hi,
I'm with client that has 4 Exchange/AD sites: Virgiinia, California, UK and Germany.
All sites are well connected. Each Database has 3 copies total (CA and VA sharing copies, UK and Germany sharing copies). What would be the best solution in this scenario to have one DAG or 2 DAGS (one for europe and one for America)? Please factor in the
scenario where the link between Europe and North America goes down even though there are no databases being share between the two continents.
ms

Hi,
I recommend pay attention to below link about Database availability groups and Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions with two sites(especially, steps 8 in Determine High Availability Strategy section):
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979799(v=exchg.150).aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg558613(v=exchg.141).aspx
You can do it testing in your lad before modify your product environment.
Thanks
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3 Node DAG with DR site

Hi team,
I have a primary site with 2 CAS (WNLB) and 2 MBX servers with DAG configured. I want to extend this to include a DR site with 1 CAS and 1 MBX server. FSW on Primary site is set to CAS server.
If the PRimary site goes down completely, is it correct that the DR DAG member will not come up since there's no majority?
related to Q1, what steps do i need to follow to get the DR DAG node up and running?
If I set up a secondary FSW on the DR Site CAS, can I get majority vote and get the DR DAG node up automatically?
What's DAC's role here?
Thank you.
Chris!

Hi Crypto,
1.If the PRimary site goes down completely, is it correct that the DR DAG member will not come up since there's no majority?For a 3 server DAG it will be offline if two servers
are lost. You must manually intervene at this point. we discourage automatic fail-over of DAG to DR manual fail-over is better. Make sure DAG is in DAC mode.
2. related to Q1, what steps do i need to follow
to get the DR DAG node up and running?
Install a server with all roles and add the MBX server to the DAG install an ADC in DR site and point Exchange server in DR to the ADC in DR using Set-ADServerSettings. Configure alternate witness(FSW in a 3 member DAG check next question's answer).
Please check this to configure alternatewitness server and enable DAC on the DAG. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd297934(v=exchg.150).aspx
3.If I set up a secondary FSW on the DR Site CAS, can I get majority
vote and get the DR DAG node up automatically?
In a 3 member DAG FSW is being ignored. Read this. You have to manually bring the DR Exchange online.
4.What's DAC's role here?
We enable DAC to prevent split-brain when data center goes offliine.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979790(v=exchg.150).aspx
Please read this http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23333.exchange-2013-dag-datacenter-failover-and-disaster-recovery.aspx
Please read this to understand the HA changes in CU1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scottschnoll/archive/2013/04/02/high-availability-changes-in-exchange-server-2013-cumulative-update-1.aspx
Thanks, MAS
Please mark as helpful if you find my comment helpful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.
Hi MAS,
Thank you and sorry for the delay. Can I have the same setup with 3 nodes under a single site and keep one node as a DR location (But not in an AD Site)?
Thank you,
Chris.

4 Member DAG across 2 sites downsize

Hello All,
I currently have a 4 member single DAG with DAC across 2 sites with FSW server and Alternate FSW, one per site.
I have had difficulties in the process of testing failover to site 2 as we have had mail queues that held mail and would give out errors(these were resolved and I do not have info on them). I have been tasked to reduce the 4 member DAG to 2 members across
2 sites. The reason being that the DAG has never used 2 servers and the failover always went across the WAN to site 2.
First of all, is that possible? I have read it is but would like to confirm.
Second, keeping in mind it's unlikely I can reverse the decision, are there better designs where one copy of the DB would remain on site 2?
Thanks.

Hi,
Do you want to achieve the following?
DAC is enabled, two members in DAG, one is in site1 and the other is in site2.
This deployment is ok. Here is a similar thread which may help you for your reference.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/8c2b8a6d-13d9-4479-990e-a777a13c4dec/2-member-dag-with-dac-configuration-would-this-setup-be-ok?forum=exchange2010
For the second question, Do you mean that you still have four members in DAG, two members are in HQ site, the other two are in DR site, and you expect the database copy to activate only in the HQ site?
If so, you can use the DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy parameter to specify the type of automatic activation. For more details about this parameter, you can refer to the following article.
Set-MailboxServer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998651(v=exchg.141).aspx
Best regards,
Belinda
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

Exchange 2013 DAG with single site and 2 multi-role servers with error "MapiExceptionIllegalCrossServerConnection"

Hi,
I've got a lab with a domain controller and an Hyper-v with on it two multi-role exchange 2013 CU7 servers on W2K12 R2 OS, configured in DAG semplified (but the problem is the same also if I use the classical DAG configuration), a witness server, and a L7
load balancer for the exchange servers.
When I made the test to disable the OWA application pool where I've got the active mailbox database of the user, the balancer in correct manner redirect the session to the other exchange multi-role server, but the client in his OWA session is no more
able to send new mail with the error "Error your request can't be completed rigt now. Please try again later."
The only strange log that I see on the server in the MAPI client access directory where there is the following error message:
2015-01-21T08:00:45.132Z,956,1,/o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=1247f28558d24d4db872ab127b3e5810-Healt,,Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Monitoring.dll,15.0.0.0,Cached,,,,MapiHttp,Client=Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Monitoring,R:4ab7b6c8-54ee-4be3-aa9d-f8c856c4c47c:2,C:MAPIAAAAAOC4+7OCoZOjkqeKuoumlKSEtYO5ibyGs4bc/879z/vD9sX1zP28AwAAAAAAAA==|S:0-mGmHRQ==,OwnerLogon,0x6BB
(rpc::Exception),00:00:00.0310000,"Logon: Owner, /o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=1247f28558d24d4db872ab127b3e5810-Healt in database last mounted on Exch2.lab.net",RpcEndPoint: [ServerTooBusyException]
Client is being backed off -> [ClientBackoffException] Mailbox was moved to a different mailbox server. A client needs to retry. -> [IllegalCrossServerConnectionException] Cannot open mailbox /o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=1247f28558d24d4db872ab127b3e5810-Healt.
-> [MapiExceptionIllegalCrossServerConnection] Monitoring mailbox [] with application ID [Client=MSExchangeRPC] is not allowed to make cross-server calls from [Exch1.lab.net] to [Exch2.lab.net] [diag::AAAOAAAA/wAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAA=],,,[email protected],
The CAS try to access the mailbox on the other server, but without success.
Someone have idea how to solve?
Thanks

Hi Hinte, sorry for the answer delay.
I've run the command you suggest to check the HealthMailbox status, but seems that all are fine:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-Mailbox -Monitoring | ft name, servername
Name ServerName
HealthMailbox7021deb6ae104dadbf52feedfa7fa68b exch1
HealthMailboxb83c9040b32e4d1197f7f54f6709bb7f exch1
HealthMailboxb1c32037890b43fbb2af2efe7c36ba00 exch1
HealthMailbox8d174269b494458daf9ade5099e22845 exch1
HealthMailboxaa7d10f02d2d4cc588243b291ead3e3a exch1
HealthMailboxeb32c30a019f42968a7cbc49a6ac3e65 exch1
HealthMailboxc6ff1d36ba154c5db5411b44718edcbd exch1
HealthMailbox75dc7caa7e8c4a3b812a01b607536d48 exch1
HealthMailbox16c86e512f454e7890b80c180ce19c00 exch1
HealthMailboxc6e447f7dba24d9b913f1dfcabe9f927 exch1
HealthMailbox40fa5a3f2abc4accae6286cd98abc90a exch1
HealthMailbox2712b9544bad4e7b8b671be2cda8cfde exch2
HealthMailboxe2559124da20499386bf8103dcb21e9b exch2
HealthMailbox3264c6078dad45d4a78c56a3afe81df1 exch1
HealthMailboxacacc51eb8bc4717b295ddf0adccf77e exch2
HealthMailbox64c4dd8cddac4c4e8bb7314010e797b1 exch1
HealthMailbox4a92bfa14fdd47fbb27c19513f6d2beb exch2
HealthMailbox465d2a69de93430e84b4d699a88cb0c3 exch1
HealthMailbox97b578e57cd44204820fffa416b25633 exch2
HealthMailboxb411059771db4647bb775c665ec29440 exch1
HealthMailboxf981dde6f4134f839bf41eb0000434e4 exch2
HealthMailboxc33801c7c3b1474f8aa6065249bb4fca exch1
HealthMailbox2282128ed8d14937998212edd15adf20 exch2
HealthMailboxe3d12b756cf545239b38be4607904ae1 exch2
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>
Regarding the test sugested to diable instead the OWA App Pool only the OWA virtual directory, I've not found on IIS the possibility to stop the access to this virtual directory.
Also on exchnage Administration page there is no the possibility to switch off this virtual directory only (or I don't found where is this setting).
Regards

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Can i use same certificate on 2 different CAS Server across sites

Hi All
I have a question I have been playing with for a few days,
I have the following setup,
2 sites connected via a VPN and a DAG configured between sites.
Site 1-Head Office
2 exchange 2010 servers,
1 running CAS and Mailbox (this server is entry point to all clients for owa etc.)
1 running Hub, CAS, Mailbox. (this is the main server and a DAG Member)
We have a UNC certificate associated with all records pointing to remote access and its installed on both servers.
** Everything in this site works fine.
** The AD DNS server does not have a zone for the public domain with all the external records only the .local domain. Planning to change this soon.
Site 2.
1 exchange 2010 servers,
1 running Hub, CAS, Mailbox. (this is the main server for this site, a DAG Member and no entry point at this time but we intend to use it for redundancy)
** Currently all BD are on server in site 1.
** The AD DNS server does not have a zone for the public domain with all the external records only the .local domain. Planning to change this soon.
My questions are as follows:
1      on site 2’s the cas server can I use the same certificate I’m using onsite 1. in other words all clients currently use mail.domain.com which has an IP pointing to site 1, can I use that same certificate in site 2 and associate
it with the CAS server there? (in the event of a failover I just change the records IP)
2      All smtp traffic come through site 1, when I test moving active databases to site 2, all email stay in the ques of exchange server in site one, they don’t get delivered. (I have not set AD replication through smtp so don’t know
if this is a factor)
3      When I do set the active databases to site 2, webmail and remote services stop working, I get the infamous error when logging onto webmail, service unavailable because it’s been moved. I have read a lot about this being an internal
external url issue.
All these issues im starting to think they all interlinked, and would like some help.
Cheers

Answers to your questions:
Yes. Understand that until you swap your external DNS so it points to Site 2, the mail.domain.com won't be accessed, but it will be there for when you want it to be.
AD replication is not the issue, so don't try to set it to use SMTP. If you have hub servers in both sites, your inbound Internet email should be delivered from the Site 1 hubs to the Site 2 hubs. We may need more information before we can give
you a good answer for this question. However, you may check the following TechNet article (and its links) for assistance.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998825(v=exchg.141).aspx
Web access requires that the CAS you connect to be either externally accessible and in the same site as your mailbox server, or that the CAS in the inaccessible Windows site needs to be configured as internal only and the accessible CAS needs to be configured
to proxy connections. For this, make sure you have followed the directions in the following TechNet article.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310763(v=exchg.141).aspx
HTH ...

How can I public more than one iWeb site ?

Dear iLife users, I have a website http://www.inmokvc.com created with iWeb a couple of years ago and still online, now I would like to bring online a second website also created with iWeb but can't bring it online: I have a new domain name for my second site but how can I get 2 diferent sites online at the same time ?

can't bring it online:
What is happening exactly?
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Exchange 2013 Multi site

Hi
I have Active directory 2012 R2 with sites ( A ,B)
Site A
I have 2 cas servers
I have 2 MBX servers with DAG
ALL users in site B has issue from slow outlook profiles , we suggest to create a CAS server there in B site and memeber of DAG
SO in site B we will have cas server + MBX member DAG
Regarding users in B site how can i enforce the to connect the exchange throw the cas server located in B site ?
How can i confirm that all smtp trafic will go from B site throw cas server located there then to the cas server located in A site then to the firewall ?
is this scenario provide performance wise?
all users for site B will have a DB and will be mounted on MX in B site .
Please need suggestions .
I need to have high performance for outlook profiles located in B site
we have wan link between site A and site B but it is slow .
Do I need to create another DAG ?
when shall we have multiple DAG in our exchange organization ?
Thanks
MCP MCSA MCSE MCT MCTS CCNA

Hi,
Based on your description, CAS servers in site A are Internet-facing, CAS server in Site B are non-internet facing.
In this case, all outbound mail for site B users will go from CAS in site B to CAS in site A and then to firewall and Internet.
All inbound mails will go from CAS in site A to CAS in site B and then go to Mailbox server.
Here is an article which may help you for your reference.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa996349(v=exchg.150).aspx
Best regards,
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Thanks for you reply Belinda ,
Is it need any configuration from my side ?
MCP MCSA MCSE MCT MCTS CCNA

How do you delete specific message from users in Exchange 2013 DAG database?

Our network has been inundated with spam from INTUIT.COM with the SUBJECT: PAYMENT OVERDUE and contains a link to download a form from a Dropbox. Obviously, very suspicious and clearly spam. We're using Postini as our Edge Transport/ Spam filter but messages
are still getting in. I've enable anti-spam on all my mailbox servers, set the SCL values but that hasn't worked.
I understand that Exchange Edge Transport role has the more aggressive spam fighting features but Microsoft also recommends an online spam filter.
Needless to say, we've taken steps to quarantine those messages based on subject and sender in Postini but now would like to delete those messages from the users in went to. My users are two different DAG mailbox databases. I found this article http://www.techieshelp.com/delete-mail-from-multiple-mailboxes/ but
the command didn't work. I'm thinking its because I have DAG and a couple of databases. I even tried "get-mailbox -database "databasename" | search-mailbox -searchquery subject: "Payment Overdue"" and that didn't work.
I'm running Exchange 2013 SP1 DAG across two sites comprised of four 2013 SP1 mailbox servers.

Check this out
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459253%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx and specifically look at the section titled "Search messages and log the search results"
Or you can use this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996371%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx with the WHATIF parameter
Alternatively if you are open the 3rd party solutions check out Lucid8's DigiScope
http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp
which would allow you to see the search results and then delete OR if desired you can set the On FIND action to Export to PST and then Delete so that you can preserve and then remove messages on the fly as the search system finds
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Exchange Server Dynamic quorum for two AD site

Hello All,
I have some query regarding the Dynamic Quorum issue:
The environment is two Exchange 2013 in first AD site and another Exchange server 2013 on second AD site. So, total 3 node exchange server.
1. Can i configure DAG with dynamic quorum on this scenario?
2. If first site is totally down then second site can work without any interruption.
3. Is there any need manual switchover in this scenario?
4. OWA and outlook can work if first site down?
5. If first site down then second site exchange server db can automatically mounted.
Thanks,
Parvez

Hi,
1. Can i configure DAG with dynamic quorum on this scenario?
By default dynamic quorum will be enabled once the node is added to the DAG
2. If first site is totally down then second site can work without any interruption.
1.sequential failure on dag nodes - first node in dag will go down and after a short time second node will go down .
2.simultaneous failure on dag nodes - majority of the nodes will go down at a time .On your case majority is two.
Dynamic quorum will support sequential failure of nodes and it will not support the simultaneous failure .
So on your case if you perform manual sequential failure on the dag nodes you can make utilize the dynamic quorum feature .
Note : Please refer the below mentioned blog which will give you a good clarity.Like you they have also demonstrated with three nodes.
Reference
blog : http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2013/high-availability-recovery/exchange-2013-dag-dynamic-quorum-part2.html
3. Is there any need manual switchover in this scenario?
Yes it is available .You can follow the below mentioned article .Though it is for exchange 2010 but it will support 2013 .
http://smtpport25.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/exchange-2010-dag-local-and-site-drfailover-and-fail-back/
4. OWA and outlook can work if first site down?
You need to point the outlook and owa namespaces to the exchange 2013
server in DR site or else it would be to an LB in DR site.
5. If first site down then second site exchange server db can automatically mounted.
At a time , If the entire site goes down then the automatic failover will not happen ,because
the dynamic quorum doesn't have the enough time to recalculate the dynamic weight.
Please feel free to reply me if you have any queries.
Thanks & Regards S.Nithyanandham

Moving Exchange 2010 Production DAG Setup and Servers to difrent Date Center with new IP Addresses

My Setup
Exchange 2010 SP3 2 Mailbox, 2 Hub/CAS, 2 TMG Servers in Production
Exchange 2010 SP3 2 Mailbox, 2 Hub/CAS, 2 TMG Servers in DR Site
Exchange 2010 DAG implemented with site level redundancy
Requirement
Need move Production Exchange setup along with DAG configuration to a new location.
IP Addresses for servers and DAG setup will change
No change in Server name and DNS names
During production server movement Mail services will be activated from DR Site
Need help in planning and executing the IP Address change/DAG Change
and Server movement.
Kumar K S

Hi,
I will have the following plans:
1. Active the DR site as the main site during the migration.
2. Moving the Server to the new site
3. Change the activate back to the Production Servers
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/fb9a27c3-81f8-4079-aeb8-42119b1e23bf/changing-ip-address-of-exchange-server
Thanks,
Simon Wu
TechNet Community Support

Datacenter Switchover - Evicting members of a DAG

Background:
We have two AD sites (A and B), each with their own datacenter with internet access.
We have three multi-rolled Exchange servers (2x in site A, 1x in site B). We'll call them Aex1,Aex2,Bex1
We have a DAG configured spanning sites A and B consisting Aex1,Aex2,Bex1.
We have three copies of every database. Bex1 hosts only passive copies. Aex1 and Aex2 host both active and passive copies.
Aex1 and Aex2 need to be powered off for 2-3 days while they are physically relocated.
Prior to shutting down Aex1/Aex2, we plan to activate all databases on Bex1 (in Secondary site) and update DNS as necessary to point clients to the CAS in the secondary site.
I'm familiar with the online Exchange Server 2010 Datacenter Switchover guided walkthrough and plan to use it.
http://support.microsoft.com/common/survey.aspx?scid=sw;en;3510&showpage=1
Question -
When I run Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity DAG -ActiveDirectorySite <Recovery_Site B>, DAG members on the StoppedMailboxServers list are EVICTED from the DAG's cluster.
When I go through the datacenter switchback procedure to re-add the evicted DAG members, will Exchange synchronize the database copies on Aex1/Aex2 from Bex2 or will it have to perform a FULL reseed? Total downtime for Aex1/Aex2 will
be 1-2 days MAX.
My concern is that full database seeds takes a very long time between the two sites (they are in different geographical locations, connected via a WAN connection with a latency of ~150ms). I want to avoid having to perform a FULL reseed.
I appreciate any and all input. Thanks!

Hi mlawpa,
They will need some time to sync the database copies after the Mailbox servers have been incorporated into the DAG.
However, accoding to some specific conditions during the outage, it may require reseeding the database copies.
For example, if during the outage, you remove the database copies from the failed primary datacenter to allow log file truncation to occur for the surviving active copies in the second datacenter, reseeding will be required.
More details in the following article:
Datacenter Switchovers
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351049(v=exchg.141).aspx
Please notice the "Mailbox Server Role Switchback" session.
Thanks
Mavis
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

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