"Drain stopping" an Exchange 2010 CAS array w/o user getting prompts.

Hi Dan, with MAPI, afaik there's no way to avoid users getting auth prompts when reconnecting to a different pool member. We have logic built into the persistence profiles to persist all connections from the same client to the same node because otherwise you would see non-stop auth prompts within the Outlook client.

 

 

About the long-lived connections, you might try decreasing the timeout setting and also deleting any persistence records for that node; administratively downing a pool member will not terminate existing connections and new connections with a persistence record for the node will continue to be sent to that node as well. The command to do that would be something like:

 

 

(tmos)del ltm persistence persist-records node-addr 10.133.20.81 mode source-address

 

 

thanks

 

Mike