Have you read a blog or web site that asked you to run the Set-DAG command? Were you told by someone to run the Get-DAG command? You then went to your lab Exchange server to test and validate the command only to find that it does not work. At this point it’s a case of: Dude, where’s my command! **
The Exchange Management Shell will look like the below:
The reason is as mentioned in the red output text, the command is not recognised. It’s simply just not there…
This is because Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup is a little wordy to type, and is often abbreviated to Set-DAG. The same is true for the other DAG commands as well. I’ll put them into a table so that search engines will pick them up and people can easily find them. And for the record, I’m pretty guilty of shortening them which is why I started to write this in the first place……
Database Availability Group
| Full Command | Abbreviated |
| Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Restore-DAG |
| Start-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Start-DAG |
| Stop-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Stop-DAG |
| New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | New-DAG |
| Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Remove-DAG |
| Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Set-DAG |
| Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup | Get-DAG |
Database Availability Group Server
| Full Command | Abbreviated |
| Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer | Add-DAGServer |
| Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer | Remove-DAGServer |
Database Availability Group Network
| Full Command | Abbreviated |
| Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupNetwork | Get-DAGNetwork |
| New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupNetwork | New-DAGNetwork |
| Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupNetwork | Remove-DAGNetwork |
| Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupNetwork | Set-DAGNetwork |
Cheers,
Rhoderick
** – Ashton Kutcher films never really became more cerebral, did they?
