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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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7.9. Designating the Routing Group Master

Problem

You need to specify a new Routing Group Master server in the routing group.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

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

  2. Ensure that you have enabled viewing of administrative and routing groups (see Recipe 7.3).

  3. Expand the organization Administrative Groups target administrative group Routing Groups target routing group.

  4. Click on the Members container to display the list of member servers in the right pane. Right-click the server you wish to be the new RGM and check Set as Master.

Using VBScript

' This code creates a new Routing Group Master in a routing group.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
' The common name of the Exchange server object to be made RGM
strExchangeServer = "<ExchangeServerName>" ' e.g., red-exch02
' Name of the administrative group the routing group is in
strAdminGroup = "<SourceAG>" ' e.g., SeattleAG
' Name of the routing group the server is in
strRoutingGroup = "<TargetRG>" ' e.g., RedmondRG
' Name of the Exchange organization
strExchangeOrg = "<ExchangeOrg>" ' e.g., ExampleOrg ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- strConfigDN = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE").Get("configurationNamingContext") strExchangeServerDN = "CN=" & strExchangeServer & ",CN=Servers,CN=" & _ strAdminGroup & ",CN=Administrative Groups,CN=" & _ strExchangeOrg & ",CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services," & _ strConfigDN strRoutingGroupDN = "LDAP://CN=" & strRoutingGroup & ",CN=Routing Groups,CN=" ...
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