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Exchange 2019 use a separate recovery server

Hi,

In our earlier Exchange environments, 2013 and backwards we have always set up an Exchange server for database and single items recovery. Those Exchange servers have not had the Client Access features installed and it has not been a part of the actual production environment. It has had only one purpose ant that was recovery for different reasons and we never installed the Client Access Features on it.

In Exchange 2019 it doesn't seem to be possible to leave out or uninstall the client access features and the server accepts clients just because it is there which we do not like. We don't wont this server to signal to clients that it exists or to accept any Outlook, OWA or ActiveSync requests.

Is this possible?

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AndyDavid answered

Set the Autodiscover SCP to the production server or null
I prefer setting to the production server.
I would follow this doc and set the Autodiscover URI and the other URLs to the prod server and the backup server wont be used

https://www.mustbegeek.com/configure-external-and-internal-url-in-exchange-2016/


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MichaelEriksson-2831 answered AndyDavid commented

Hi,

Thank you for the answer. Just to see if I understand correctly.

On the recovery server I will set the same URLs, like autodiscover.domain.com//autodiscover/autodiscover.xml and https://mail.domain.om/mapi etc, as the Production DAG servers which basically points to a Load Balancer.

And because of that it will redirected from the recovery server if a clients wants to connect to it. Am I right or do I missunderstand something.

Regards

Michael

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Correct!
You are essentially telling any domain-joined client to use the prod server when they do an autodiscover lookup.
Setting the URLs on the backup servers virtual dirs ensures that if a client someone connects they will get the prod server URLs instead.

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MichaelEriksson-2831 answered

Thank you very much, you made my day :)

Regards

Michael

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