DataCenter Activation //Exchange 2010

Hi,
One of my client is activating exchange services from secondary datacenter. Could you expert folks please review this & let me know if you see any issues and help me make this easier to achieve
with little to no interruption.
Some background:
The activation of secondary datacenter is needed because we’ll be migrating the current primary datacenter to new facility which will then become the new primary datacenter. And to support Email services uptime/SLA, we’ll be activating the services
to secondary datacenter meanwhile, post successful datacenter migration we’ll then have to failback the services this new datacenter.
Exchange Environment: We’ve 2 Multirole exchange 2010 SP3 servers at each site. One pair F5 Load balancer (GTM & LTM configuration) at each site. Each site has IronPort
for outgoing email. UM gateways are configured in cluster spanning both sites. Each site has its own CAS array. Webmail & autodiscover records are published to public DNS
Here is a plan.
Route public      traffic from Primary site F5 LoadBalancer pair to Secondary      site F5 LoadBalancer pair. (Change webmail/autodiscover host name to
secondary datacenter & Flush the cache on DNS server)
Change the      internal DNS server record for CAS Array, Webmail, SMTP Relay, Internal      autodiscover etc to point to secondary datacenter
Either rename      the secondary CAS array as Primary CAS array or set the primary CAS array to      secondary site
Change all the      exchange Virtual directory external URL as public webmail mail URL and      internal URL will have local Secondary site CAS array followed by
directory type.
Configure OWA      redirection on IIS
Change Iron      port/HUB server to ensure source transport server is now secondary hub      server and smart host is secondary ironport
Replicate relay      connector to secondary hub transport server so applications can relay      emails via these servers
UM servers      gateway exists at both sites and SIP trunk is configured so I don’t see      any need for change
Move OAB to      secondary exchange server
Login to server      in the Secondary datacenter & run
Stop-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup      -Identity DAG01 -ActiveDirectorySite Primary
Verify StoppedMailboxServer should list all mailbox servers in the primary datacenter and the StartedMailboxServers should list all mailbox servers in the recovery datacenter
Verify that the cluster services on all Exchange servers that were accessible in the primary datacenter were cleaned up & Ensure the startup type for Cluster Service is set to disabled
Stop the Cluster      service on each DAG member in the Secondary datacenter.
Run the restore command from secondary exchange servers as below
Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup      –Identity DAG01 -ActiveDirectorySite Secondary
     -AlternateWitnessDirectory:<AWSPath>      -AlternateWitnessServer:<AWSName>
Verify that the DAG members are up and the Cluster Group is online
Activate/Mount      the databases now
Shut      down primary Datacenter exchange servers, & Necessary SAN backend.      Move the hardware to new datacenter. Plug them in and turn them on &
     if the exchange server/SAN come backup online properly then login to      primary exchange server & run.
Start-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup      –Identity DAG01 -ActiveDirectorySite primary
Ensure DAG members are up and the Cluster Group is online
Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup      –Identity DAG01 -WitnessServer <WSName>
     -AlternateWitnessServer <AWSName>
Move active      database copies to primary datacenter.
Repeat step 1 to      9 to turn the things back on primary datacenter.
Let me know if this can be further improved or rather simplified.
Regards, Pushkal MishrA, This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties and confers no rights. I request you to test the solution in lab and post successful outcome you should try this on production.

Hi,
To get the traffic to DR site, you need to change the DNS record to point to the VIP of the LB in the second site.
Here is a related thread which may help you to understand this for your reference.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/exchange/en-US/704695d4-dfb2-40dd-ad58-46b34dc1aa38/exchange-2010-site-resiliency-cas-array-failover
About DAG datacenter failover, the following article can provide us the useful information.
Datacenter Switchovers
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351049(v=exchg.141).aspx
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Belinda
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TechNet Community Support

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Hi,
Based on your description, it seems that you are in a migration process (migrate SBS 2008 to Windows Server
2008 R2). Now, you want to remove Exchange Server and demote server. If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
On current situation, please refer to following articles and check if can help you.
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from Small Business Server to Standard Windows Server
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Removing
SBS 2008 – Step 3: remove from domain / DCPROMO
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It is bound to be a little different because I am an IT Tech so obviously I have more than the others, but I don’t feel like additional security should not allow me to add to my mailbox to my device
Other things I tried through the process, with no success, in no particular order are:
Tried connecting my account from different devices
Disconnected and recreated mailbox
Deleted and recreated AD account
There is one thing I noticed in the security tab of the AD account, other people using our mail system and Android based devices have something called
Data Sync. That is some sort of contact in AD
I guess. I cannot find any information about it and when I add it to my security tab, it will not stay.
After I close AD and check back 15 minutes late it is gone.
I am trying to describe this the best possible way. Has anyone experienced similar issue?
If there is any further information needed feel free to ask.

Then I would firstly suggest visiting the Remote Connectivity Analyzer Website to check common availability to your mailbox. Just run through the test.
I ran this test as suggested two different ways. With my user name and password and then a second time with the mail server. Both times in failed all tests with the exception of the following three:
Attempting to resolve the host name in DNS.
Testing the TCP port 443 on host to ensure it's listening and open.
The Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer is attempting to obtain the SSL certificate from remote server on port 443.
All three of these passed. I am not sure what most of this means, but we have people in the company a variety of different devices that connect with no problem. For this reason I believe this problem is localized to my AD account or my mailbox,
I have matched up settings with people that I know have the same device and use it on a daily basis with no problem and can not find anything different.

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