Re: Two Server Implementation using Exchange 2003 Standard

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From: Al Mulnick (amulnick_No_SPAM_at_ncDOTrr.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 16:04:23 -0400

Yes you can. I do wonder if RPC/HTTP wouldn't provide better results
however. Once configured, your users may be happier to use that feature
especially since you wouldn't have to worry about moving data or having a
new staff to do backup/restore etc.
For those ten users, put them on the server via RPC/HTTP and let them out
straight over the internet connection. Requires an upgrade to 2003 for
Windows and Exchange as well as desktops, but could be cheaper in the long
run. If not, then the second store would work. You'd have two Routing
Groups, and one Admin Group. RG and AG combined is the equivalent of the
5.x site topology.

Al

"Herb Cumbie" <henry.cumbie@pc.vsd.titan.com> wrote in message
news:ekE8vxHQEHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I am getting ready to migrate my client's existing mail system to Exchange
> 2003. The current installation consists of one Exchange 5.0 server (yes,
> that's what I said, Exchange 5.0) located in Panama City, Florida. I have
> twenty users on the LAN in Panama City. I also have 10 additional users
> located in Los Angeles, California. Their LAN is connected to ours using
a
> 128Kbps Frame Relay. The users in Los Angeles currently use Outlook to
> connect over the WAN to our Exchange server in Panama City but the
> performance is beginning to degrade significantly because of recent added
> traffic to the system. We do plan to upgrade the WAN connectivity soon,
the
> plan is to move to a VPN over CABLE/DSL Internet connections. The VPN
will
> be created using Netgear FVL328 High Speed Firewall VPN routers and
> hopefully will provide more than 200Kbps available bandwidth over the VPN.
>
> I'm leaning towards adding a server in the Los Angeles location to provide
> DC/GC service and DNS service. Adding Exchange to that server would, I
> believe, help if I can put a message store on that server. So the
question
> is if I want to have two Exchange 2003 servers as part of the same domain
> structure can I use Exchange 2003 Standard and have a message store on
each
> server to contain the mailboxes for that geographic location?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Herb Cumbie
>
>

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