To perform this procedure, the account you use must be delegated the following:
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Membership in the local Administrators group on both nodes in the cluster
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A minimum of Full Control share permissions for the file share that will be used for the File Share Majority quorum
For more information about permissions, delegating roles, and the rights that are required to administer Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, see Permission Considerations.
The file share to be used for the Node and File Share Majority quorum must be created and secured before performing the following procedure. If the file share has not been created or correctly secured, the following procedure will fail. The file share can be hosted on any computer running a Windows operating system. However, we recommend that you host the file share on a Hub Transport server in the Active Directory directory service site containing the clustered mailbox server. This location allows an Exchange administrator to have full and complete control over the share (and the server hosting the share), which is critical for high availability.
These procedures should be performed after the second node is added to the cluster and before the clustered mailbox server is installed.
In the first procedure:
- <CMSName> refers to the name of the clustered mailbox server (for example, E2K7CCR).
- <Directory> refers to the full path to the directory being shared (for example, C:\ FSM_DIR_E2K7CCR).
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<VCO> is the virtual computer object that represents the cluster (sometimes referred to as the cluster network object or CNO). Because the VCO is a computer account, you must add a dollar sign symbol, $, to the end of the VCO name. If you do not include the $ symbol, the command will fail with the following error: System error 1332 has occurred. No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.
When specifying the preceding parameters in your commands, do not include the <> characters (for example, use EXMBX1$, not <EXMBX1$>).