https://evan.wtf/tags/backend/Recent content in Backend on Evan HoffmanHugoen-USEvan HoffmanWed, 14 Apr 2010 01:38:51 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/04/14/moving-an-exchange-2003-server-to-another-location-with-minimal-risk-and-disruption/Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:38:51 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/04/14/moving-an-exchange-2003-server-to-another-location-with-minimal-risk-and-disruption/<p>So our Exchange server is located in our office building. This made sense at the time because that&rsquo;s where the users are. Over time though, this has proved problematic for a few reasons. Primarily, our office is certainly not a datacenter and doesn&rsquo;t offer the amenities of one - clean, reliable power, and redundant cooling. In an average year we lose power probably 10-15 times, often for an hour or more. The rest of our production environment is hosted in a top-tier datacenter, so after a while I started to wonder why our Exchange server wasn&rsquo;t there, and making plans to move it there. Oh, and did I mention I&rsquo;m not an Exchange admin in any sense of the term? I just inherited the Exchange server about 2 months ago.</p>