We are new to Exchange and are setting up our production environment and 
attempting to test backups and restores before moving forward with moving live 
users to our environment.  We have an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster on Windows 
Server 2008 64-bit servers.  We are setting up the "serverless" environment 
where you use a proxy host (storage node) that is presented a snapshot of the 
passive node from our Clariion.

Is there anyone out there using the NMM module and the vss provider from EMC to 
backup an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster using Windows Server 2008?  We are having 
some issues with the EMC vss provider (solutions enabler) installing a 
clustered DTC service into our environment, which is causing COM+ errors.  We 
have been through 4 different solutions enabler versions (and 3 versions of the 
NMM) and are still having the problem.  Seems to us the solutions enabler is 
assuming there is a clustered DTC service installed as well, which according to 
MS Exchange 2007 documentation, is not needed.  We only have Exchange 2007 
running as a clustered service.  

Has anyone else experienced a similar issue with Windows Server 2008?  If there 
is anyone out there successfully backing up an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster using 
the solutions enabler and NMM with MS Server 2008, please let me know.  I'd 
feel better knowing someone has it working with EMC's provided solutions and 
that its a learning curve issue for us.

We are Networker 7.4.4 on Windows 2003 64-bit
Clustered Exchange servers are Windows 2008 64-bit
Networker Storage Node (proxy host) is Windows 2003 64-bit

NMM 2.1.1 (a patched version from EMC) 
solutions enabler 6.5.2.8 (a patched version of EMC)


Kevin Malone
Network Administrator
Salisbury University
Information Technology  FH297
kcmalone AT salisbury DOT edu
410-543-6298

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