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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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6.1. Creating a Storage Group

Problem

You want to create a new SG on an Exchange server.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  2. In the left pane, expand the appropriate Administrative Groups container, and then expand the Servers container.

  3. Right-click the target server, and choose New Storage Group.

  4. Type a name in the Name field.

  5. Optionally, change the location of the store database and log files to a different volume or path in the appropriate dialog boxes.

  6. Optionally, enable circular logging or zeroing out of deleted database pages.

  7. Click OK.

Using VBScript

' This code creates a new storage group on the target Exchange server 
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
 strComputerName = "<serverName>" ' e.g., "batman"
 strSGName = "<storageGroupName>" ' e.g., "New Storage Group"
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
  
  set theServer = CreateObject("CDOEXM.ExchangeServer")
  Set theSG = CreateObject("CDOEXM.StorageGroup")
  theServer.DataSource.Open strComputerName
  
  ' get the URL of the first SG on this particular server
  sgArray = theServer.StorageGroups
  strSGName = sgArray(0)

   ' stuff our new SG name into the URL
    strTemp = Mid(strTemp, InStr(2, strTemp, "CN"))
    strTargetSG = "LDAP://" & theServer.DirectoryServer & "/CN=" & _
     strSGName & "," & strTemp
   
   ' saving the new SG object to this URL actually creates the SG
   theSG.DataSource.SaveTo strTargetSG
   WScript.echo "Created SG " & strSGName & " successfully".

Discussion

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