I recently had to setup two SQL servers with Always on availability as this is recommended for Skype for Business.
After setting this up (mostly similar to how we setup all our other SQL Servers) to include backups I found that backups were failing on the secondary server and seemingly can only run when it is the active server.
I therefore removed backups from the fail over server hoping that when it fails over to the secondary server, I will receive an error message from the backup job that will remind me to set it back to primary as I think I can live with missing one backup.
Then later noticed that for some reason I was not receiving emails from the server to warn that backups are failing (another separate problem I need to deal with)
So now I have written a separate powershell script to run and check daily and warn me when server one is not primary.
Just wondering how others are dealing with this?
(PS we not subscribe to using any 3rd party solutions, only Enterprise OOTB)