Rename Exchange Cluster Group?   

Is renaming the Exchange Cluster Group(s) within an Exchange 2003 cluster 
supported or do I need to uninstall Exchange from the cluster to do rename?

Thanks in advance.

date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:45:00 -0700   author:   George

Re: Rename Exchange Cluster Group?   

Renaming the cluster groups should not be an issue - this is for display. 
Since these are not user-facing, there shouldn't be any business-critical 
need to rename.

You could change the name of the group that has the EVS. Howver, renaming 
the EVS (value of Network Name resource) is not supported. You would need to 
remove the EVS (make sure users are moved, PFs replicated - this is like 
removing the Exchange server) and create a new one.

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"George"  wrote in message 
news:905E2AD4-0CD2-4F84-8293-D20B37190373@microsoft.com...
> Is renaming the Exchange Cluster Group(s) within an Exchange 2003 cluster
> supported or do I need to uninstall Exchange from the cluster to do 
> rename?
>
> Thanks in advance.

date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:59:30 -0700   author:   Bharat Suneja [MSFT]

Re: Rename Exchange Cluster Group?   

When our Clusters were created, a generic name (i.e., "Exchange cluster 
group1") was used and using a command line cluster command is more difficult. 
 Naming a cluster group more descriptive (i.e., "Exchange Cluster <name>" 
makes it easier to remember.  

Our physical server names and virtual cluster names are related so figuring 
which one to get to is not difficult, just remembering which cluster group to 
use was.  We use the same name, with different suffixes for the names such as 
00V for the Cluster, 01P - 04P for the physical nodes, and 01V - 03V for the 
virtual server node suffixes.  We use the first digit to identify the cluster 
and increment the first digit for other clusters (i.e., 00V; 10V; 20V, etc) 
and increment the second digit for each node in the cluster.  

As a result, with the Cluster Group renamed, we can use "Exchange Cluster 
01V" for the group hosting Exchange server 01V on the primary physical node 
of 01P, in Cluster 00V which make a command line for cluster admin very easy 
to control any server.

Thanks

"Bharat Suneja [MSFT]" wrote:

> Renaming the cluster groups should not be an issue - this is for display. 
> Since these are not user-facing, there shouldn't be any business-critical 
> need to rename.
> 
> You could change the name of the group that has the EVS. Howver, renaming 
> the EVS (value of Network Name resource) is not supported. You would need to 
> remove the EVS (make sure users are moved, PFs replicated - this is like 
> removing the Exchange server) and create a new one.
> 
> -- 
> Bharat Suneja
> Microsoft Corporation
> ------------------------
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is for
> newsgroup purposes only.
> 
> 
> "George"  wrote in message 
> news:905E2AD4-0CD2-4F84-8293-D20B37190373@microsoft.com...
> > Is renaming the Exchange Cluster Group(s) within an Exchange 2003 cluster
> > supported or do I need to uninstall Exchange from the cluster to do 
> > rename?
> >
> > Thanks in advance. 
> 
>

date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:34:00 -0700   author:   George