Hey guys, i have a question^_^ a client of mine is moving his exchange 2003 cluster from one building to the next and i was wondering is there a systematic way of shutting down an exchange cluster, cuz to me i figure shut down passive node, shutdown active node, but the more i think about that the more i worry, any adivce Thanks in advance

If its SCC Cluster Open Cluster Administrator Take all your Cluster Resource Offline And do your Maintanence work and Start the Servers back

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:19:25 +0000, radray wrote: >Hey guys, i have a question^_^ a client of mine is moving his exchange 2003 cluster from one building to the next and i was wondering is there a systematic way of shutting down an exchange cluster, cuz to me i figure shut down passive node, shutdown active node, but the more i think about that the more i worry, any adivce That sounds okay to me. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:19:25 +0000, radray wrote: >Hey guys, i have a question^_^ a client of mine is moving his exchange 2003 cluster from one building to the next and i was wondering is there a systematic way of shutting down an exchange cluster, cuz to me i figure shut down passive node, shutdown active node, but the more i think about that the more i worry, any adivce That sounds okay to me. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi, I think your plan is good. ThanksSophia Xu TechNet Community Support

Well we did shutdown and it was exactly that, basicly do everything in "reverse", shutdown hub2 , then hub1, then node2, then node1, and startup was the opposite. Thanks guys.