Live from TechEd – first look Exchange 2010

Got a chance to talk with one of the leads over at the Exchange HA booth this year.  From what I was able to gather, 2010 will indeed have the ability to fail over a single storage group to another Exchange Server, locally or in another site; or both.  This is a welcome change from the more simplistic SCR we’re used to today for site failover and recovery. 

Based on a CCR solution set, Database Availability Groups will replicate using a modified variant of the SCR log shipping solution, but the CCR failover systems.  This will let recovery happen quickly to another server or another site for all Outlook 2007, AirSync, OWA and other Exchange based clients.

The lead did confirm that legacy Outlook clients will not move on their own if the primary Exchange server fails, so you’ll have to make DNS updates manually, or use a 3rd party failover solution set in conjunction with DAG solutions (see disclaimer below).

Also, the latest beta is feature complete, so what you see in the beta is what you will get in the RTM, plus or minus a few things for bug fixes, etc.

More reports as I get info.