Chapter 5: High Availability in Exchange Server 2010
Client Access Server
Outlook Client
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Hub Transport Server
SMTP Inbound
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Figure 10. Online Move-Mailbox. The online Move-Mailbox not only works between Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Servers, but also when moving mailboxes from Exchange Server 2007 SP2 to Exchange Server 2010. Unfortunately, moving from Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2007 is still an offline move. Likewise, moving mailboxes from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 is always an offline move.
5.3.6 Backup and Restore Exchange Server 2010 only runs on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This means that the (free) NTBackup utility in Windows Server 2003 cannot be used to backup Mailbox Databases on Exchange Server 2010. In any case, NTBackup was only capable of creating “streaming backups� of your Exchange data, not Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) backups of your Exchange database. Exchange Server 2010 contains a plug-in for the Windows Server Backup (WSB) to make it possible to create VSS backups of your Exchange Server 2010 databases.
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