MS releases guide to using recovery storage groups

Microsoft’s Exchange user documentation team has done it again. they just released a 101-page document convering the details of how recovery storage groups work, what you can do with them, and how to use them to speed up disaster recovery. It’s available here. The abstract:

Using the recovery storage group feature in Exchange Server 2003, you can mount a second copy of an Exchange mailbox database on the same server as the original database, or on any other Exchange server in the same Exchange administrative group. You can do this while the original database is still running and serving clients. The recovery storage group can also be useful in disaster recovery scenarios. This book provides information on how to determine if a recovery storage group is useful in your deployment, how to set up a recovery storage group, and how to troubleshoot common problems.

Even though this doesn’t have anything overt to do with security, it has a lot to do with availability, and that’s actually a component of security: security is about preserving your access to your data, and if you can’t get that data because of a failure, it doesn’t matter how secure it is.