Clarification on SCR and Public Folder Replication
I justed wanted to get clarification on SCR and Public Folder replciation in terms of compatibility and the ability to use both technhologies.
I want to have two mailbox servers, each in a different site (one primary, and one standby). I want to use SCR to protect the mailbox databases and Public Folder replication to protect the public folders. The public folder database and the mailbox databases will be in different Storage Groups.
The documentation (below) is a little vague and I am not sure what constitutes an "SCR enviironment". Is this a SCR enabled Storage Group or a Mailbox server?
SCR and public folder replication are two very different forms of replication built into Exchange. Due to interoperability limitations between continuous replication and public folder replication, if more than one Mailbox server in the Exchange organization has a public folder database, public folder replication is enabled and public folder databases should not be hosted in SCR environments.
November 12th, 2008 9:20pm
Hi,
Basically document says, you can not use both kind of replications to achievepublic folder redundancy and use either of them so that means SCR enabled storage groups.
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November 12th, 2008 9:39pm
Hi,
The SCR is enabled on the Storage Group level. Nevertheless, the Storage Group can only contain one database.
From Microsoft technet article:
As with LCR and CCR, SCR-enabled storage groups cannot contain more than one database. You cannot enable SCR for a storage group that contains more than one database, and you cannot add a second or subsequent database to an SCR-enabled storage group.
Therefore, the document say, you should not enable SCR on the Storage Group which contains Public Folder store.
Mike
November 14th, 2008 7:09am