Studying 70-284

jojopramos

Hi I'm now on my 70-284 studies, to be a MCSA Messaging, I need to learn and pass this one, my only question is that in the EVS topic, i am not familiar with cluster administrator, do i first need to study clustering, because here in our company, we just have 1 exchange server and our database clustering is handled by subcontractor?...how can i study EVS cause i want to implement that also...thanks

eastp

I think this can't be done.
Unless you have some fancy hardware...
There where some previous posts about installing it on ms virtual server.
But I checked it just to be sure and this is what I found.
(When I was studying for this exam I didn't do this part in a lab.)

Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2003 running on hardware virtualization software (virtual machines) only when all the following conditions are true:
• The hardware virtualization operating system is Virtual Server 2005 R2 or a later version.
• The version of Exchange Server that is running on the virtual machine is Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or a later version.
• The Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Virtual Machine Additions are installed on the guest operating system.
• Exchange Server 2003 is configured as a stand-alone server, not as part of a Windows cluster. • The SCSI driver that is installed on the guest operating system is the Microsoft Virtual Machine PCI SCSI Controller driver.
• The virtual hard disk Undo feature is not enabled.

Taken from :
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320220
Someone please correct me if i'm wrong...

Kind regards.
Eastp.