Group Chat Disaster Recovery: Failing over to a Secondary Pool
Customers who have deployed Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Server often use it for mission-critical business purposes. Such customers require the ability to maintain Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Server communications even when an entire site, including the Microsoft Office Communications Server Enterprise pool that hosts Group Chat Server, is lost.
To preserve Group Chat Server functionality in such a case, a secondary pool located at a different site must be available that can take over when the primary pool fails, and a failover mechanism must transfer operations to the secondary pool. The following white paper serves as a guide for failing over Group Chat Server from one OCS R2 pool to another.