Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 5 SCR bug

January 15, 2009 · Filed Under Exchange Server 2007  | 501 views

I ran across this the other day while trying to get SCR setup on the Exchange servers in our warm DR site…when trying to run the Enable-StorageGroupCopy cmdlet to configure the SCR instance you get the following error:

Enable-StorageGroupCopy:  Standby continuous replication is not supported between computers in different Active Directory domains.  The target node is in domain <child.domain.local>, which is different from the source domain <domain.local>.

Tim McMichael has a blog entry about it here that gives you some alternate methods to get SCR configured.  I choose to first run the Enable-StorageGroupCopy cmdlet from a second Exchange mailbox server in the warm site that hadn’t been updated with Update Rollup 5 yet.  Of course, I’ll need that second mailbox server for the remaining storage groups soon enough, so it looks like the option to use another server of the same OS level is the best choice…a VM works as well as anything else.

On a side note, I certainly hope that full support for SCR is included in Exchange Server 2007 SP2…including thge ability to view the SCR instances on the SCR target in the GUI.  It would be nice to be able to activate and deactivate from the GUI as well…or at least something more than what you can do now…which is nothing!

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2 Responses to “Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 5 SCR bug”

  1. HOW TO: Configure and Start SCR Replication : Tales of a Systems Administrator on February 4th, 2009 6:40 am

    [...] Here’s the issue with UR5. [...]

  2. Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6 arrives : Tales of a Systems Administrator on February 11th, 2009 11:06 am

    [...] the UR here and install it as soon as possible.  No mention of whether or not this UR fixes the bug identified with SCR in UR5 or [...]

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