Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Update-StorageGroupCopy : This task can only be performed locally on the source or target computer.

Ever experienced the following?

Update-StorageGroupCopy : This task can only be performed locally on the source or target computer. Whilst you are logged on the passive node of an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster.




Well I did, we couldn't figure out why this kept failing.
Even opened a support call with PSS.
In the end we found out the reason why this was failing.


In a cluster configuration there are two type of owners:

  1. Preferred Owner which is set on cluster groups
  2. Possible Owner which is set to cluster resources

Now it turns out when you normally configure say a two node cluster, you configure one node to be the preferred owner and you set both nodes to be the possible owner.

Well not in a CCR cluster, you have to set both nodes to be the preferred owner.

You can change the order in which they are used but both nodes should be configured as preferred owner.Once we set the preferred owners everything worked fine.


unfortunately there is no event or tool that reports that the passive node is missing from the preferred owner tab hopefully this will be highlighted in future releases of EXBPA.







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15 comments:

  1. Unknown7 April 2009 at 19:26

    Outstanding! You saved me a MS Premier Call. Weird problem for sure. Thanks for posting this.

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  2. neboi24 May 2009 at 01:36

    Thanks mate, saved me a few hours on the phone to microsoft..

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  3. TJP9 January 2010 at 03:16

    Seriously THANK YOU, you also saved me a premier call, that is wierd!@

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  4. Anonymous24 March 2010 at 10:02

    You made my day! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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  5. Anonymous27 April 2010 at 17:19

    I just have to join in to say thanks a bunch! Simple easy, and solves a small mystery.

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  6. Anonymous26 May 2010 at 09:31

    Update-StorageGroupCopy : This task can only be performed locally on the source or target computer.

    Missed passive node as preferred Owner!!

    Try again,

    IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thanks a lot !

    (MS so stupid..............)

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  7. Anonymous12 June 2010 at 01:53

    Wow!!! Thanks for blogging this.

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  8. Anonymous14 June 2010 at 09:21

    This solved my problem as well. Thank you for posting!

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  9. Anonymous12 July 2010 at 16:58

    Great Post. Saved me a lot of work!

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  10. Mahmood Khatri7 October 2010 at 10:54

    Thanks a lot..helped me a lot. God Bless You

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  11. Josh22 January 2011 at 08:58

    Thanks so much for sharing this with the world, this also saved me a lot of time, when time was of the essence..

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  12. Rob2 February 2011 at 23:45

    Thanks! Helped a lot :)

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  13. shamsheer3 July 2011 at 12:41

    thanks for the post. i was strugling on this problem for two days. thanks a million.

    Shamsheer

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  14. Anonymous1 August 2011 at 20:52

    I spend a couple of hours trying to figure out. Im so glad i kept going through all the searches and finding this. Thanks for posting this.

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  15. Anonymous2 October 2013 at 17:38

    Thank you very, very much, you've saved me alot of time, because i have been tearing my hair out for over two days now.

    You are a true star!

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