Hello All,

Just wanted to follow up on the answer I got from Tivoli Level II support
and others regarding my post.

Yes, Tivoli does support TDP 5.2.1 w/Win 2k3 and Exchange 2k3 in
Active/Passive mode.  The documentation appears to be misleading.  I have
posted the response from Level II tech support  also.  Thanks to Del Hoobler
for affirming this also. (I think someone else replied in the affirmative,
but I can't seem to find it as I write this post.)

Marc


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Response from Stephen Hull, IBM:

Hi Marc,
     The documentation is a bit misleading, but DP for Exchange does
support Exchange 2003 in an Active/Passive cluster.  I'll try to get this
updated for the next manual release.  Per your voicemail, I'll go ahead
and close the PMR.
Regards,
   Stephen

Stephen Hull
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Level II Support

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Excerpts from Original Post:

We are installing Exchange 2003 on a 2 node Windows 2003 cluster.  We are
planning to run the Exchange server in Active/passive mode.  According to
the notes found on page 10 of the Installation and User's Guide
(SC32-9058-01):

4. MSCS Active/Passive Configuration (Exchange Server 5.5, Exchange 2000
Server)
5. MSCS Active/Active Configuration (Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server
2003)

I just got off the phone with IBM Tivoli support and they tell me that point
5 does hold.  I have asked it to be escalated so that I can get a technical
reason for this limitation.  In my mind this puts the cart before the horse
for the backup client to force me to configure Exchange in this way.