Re: Backup Exchange 2003 Enterprise server?

There is some guidance from Microsoft about standby servers.
Read this chapter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006.aspx, from the Disaster Recovery Guide (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125070.aspx)

And here's a great presentation:
"Catastrophic Hardware Failure & Recovery with Exchange Server 2003"
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/learning/downloads/roadshows/TechNet%20Day%20-%20Best%20of%20TechNet%20-%20Catastrophic%20Hardware%20Failure%20Recovery%20-%2029th%20March%20-%20Eileen%20Brown.ppt

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Rui Silva
MVP Windows Server System - Exchange Server
Blog "subject: exchange", http://msmvps.com/ehlo

"Cwhitmore" <Cwhitmore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9FF716C8-38E0-43D2-9D5B-14BD182FE628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My agency doesn't have the money to fund a full disaster recovery setup for
Exchange 2003 Enterprise, but I'm wondering if this will work.
Setup a second Exchange 2003 Ent. server in one of our remote offices, leave
the Exchange services turned off, backup production Exchange server to remote
office. If production server goes down, turn on Exchange services at remote
site, replace mail store and logs on second Exchange server with backup from
production.
I know that I would have to change everyone's outlook profile, but will this
work?

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