Re: Mail Server hosted in Europe for U.S. Branch?

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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:41:30 -0500

My first question as a consultant would be what is the connectivity speed
between your office and Europe? Also will you be using Outlook, OWA or a
POP3 solution to pull your email?

Also, how critical is email? I ask because I worry if your connection to
Europe is severed, can you sustain business without email? That would be a
major reason for having a local Exchange server.

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"Rick" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have any input or reports which show how
> common it is for a European parent company to host the
> mail (Exchange) for a U.S. branch? We (the U.S. branch)
> have been successfully hosting our own mail inhouse using
> NT 4.0, Exchange 5.5 for a few years now. We are being
> told that to consolidate IT functions, our parent company
> in Europe should host our mail on their system which hosts
> mail for other European branches. Our concern is that with
> the time difference (there is not 24x7 support planned in
> Europe at this time),  if there are mail server problems,
> we could be "out of luck" here in the U.S. until the next
> business day, which could be disasterous to our business.
> We currently use an outside consulting company for support
> here in the U.S. and can get very quick response if we
> have any issues. We are planning to upgrade to Windows
> Server 2003 here and implement a new Cisco firewall to
> allow for VPN between us and Europe, but are very wary of
> giving up the mail server. Any input is appreciated.
>
> Rick

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