Adding mailbox servers to a Database Availability Group
Once you've created a Database Availability Group, you'll need to add DAG members. In this recipe, you'll learn how to add mailbox servers to a DAG using the Exchange Management Shell.
How to do it...
To add a mailbox server to a DAG, use the Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer cmdlet:
Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer DAG '-MailboxServer MBX1
In this example, the MBX1 server is added to a database availability group named DAG.
How it works...
In order to run the Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer cmdlet, the servers being added to the DAG must be running the Standard or Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 or 2016. This is due to the requirement of the Windows failover clustering component, which is required by the DAG. Additionally, the servers must not be a member of an existing DAG for you to successfully run this command.
If you use this cmdlet to add a mailbox server to a DAG, the Windows failover clustering feature...
