Re: Exchange 2 Domains

In news:3F1E4CB1-0DCB-4602-B050-2EF6A1FEC725@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
The Master <TheMaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
A certain extent meaning that, they wont be sharing files

You can control that pretty easily enough...

only email,
the headmaster is the same person for both schools.

Secure they require a VPN solution

We will be supporting the school (our IT company), and I think you
talked me into one domain rather than parent and child domain,
although I will bin the old domain and start afresh not much too lose
in the AD really,

Many thanks for the help once again

You're welcome - good luck.



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:34C2FFF2-52D3-4B9B-845D-EFA8E3611B0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
The Master <TheMaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I will explain a little more :)

These are two seperate schools, that are merging to a certain
extent,

I'm not sure how to interpret "...a certain extent" from either a
business or technical perspective....


I put in a new server on site a there 6 months ago, with AD, DC
DHCP, DNS, approx 50 PC's and no exchange.

The Site B that is merging with site A will be getting a new server
its a higher spec for exchange, will run as DC, DHCP, DNS and AD and
of course Exchange 2003, again approx 50 PC's.

They are located a couple of miles away from each other and
therefore can only connect via Broadband,

VPN between two compatible firewalls/routers would be a good thing.

there main requirements that have
been requested are as follows.

Shared calendars and Secure Email,

Secure meaning what, exactly?

Video conferecing (dealt with
seperately)

Good!

They asked for a exchange server to be located at the Site B, and
for site A to be able to use it as well.

Is there any reason why they would *not* be part of the same domain
(or even a child domain)? This will make a huge difference. Who will
be doing the administration on this network?


Problems I had with the domain rename was the clients didnt pick it
up we had to go around and readd the client pc's to the domain
again.

Hope this is a bit clearer now, each site will have its own DC, DNS
etc.

Thanks for the help so far btw, makes things clearer chatting to
others about pros and cons :)

Good!



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:DBF782D3-9DFC-4FA9-B4A8-219F57803FB9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
The Master <TheMaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
No, they dont have anything at the mo, peer to peer.

But they are 2 seperate entities,

What does that actually mean - from both a business and technical
side?

I thought of doing a child domain
for the second site,

Why?

but was unsure if I could put the exchange
server in the child domain, if thats ok?,

I think so, but I'm not sure why you'd want to set up a child
domain rather than a single AD domain. Then again, I don't know
what you meant by "separate entities" or what the relationship is
to be, between them.

can i run forest prep from
there or does that need to be at the parent domain?

I'm honestly not sure; this isn't something I've done before (with
a child domain).


Problem I have with using 2 sites is that the current domian name
would be wrong even if I could go for a joint domain name of
siteA&B.com, I dont want to go thru renaming the domain, done that
once before and its a nightmare!

Well, nobody except internal users will ever see it, so maybe it
doesn't matter. Or, you could do the rename. It is not that big a
deal when you don't have Exchange in the picture yet. I don't know
what problems you had....


The connection is a VPN.

OK

Having a second server at the exchange site is out of the question
for Budget costs unfortuntely.

They'll really need a DC/DNS box there, though.
Why is the Exchange server supposed to go into *that* location and
not your main office network? Where is the official HQ of your
company? Where is IT support? Etc. Is there some reason you can't
put this server on your network, and have them connect into it from
their side? Again, they really ought to have their own DC if it's
more than a small handful of users there.


On outlook if I setup a user on one PC can they then move to a
second PC in the same site that they have never logged onto before
and go straight into Oulook, with no setup using just a roaming
profile??

Yes....but you don't want a user in one location dragging a roaming
profile over a WAN link, even if the profile is small. I'm not any
expert with Exchange profile creation tools, but there may be some
you can use that will make this bit easier, at least.

if
so is that the application data part of the roaming profile?

Yes, but this isn't in Application Data.....

I Do have the option of trashing the first domain i put in, and
starting from scratch as a last resort, and TBH it would not be
the end of the world if I had too, downtime is not an issue the
data is, and thats all intact, if its a clean slate what do you
recken would be the best model as well?

I would probably either leave the AD domain name as is, or rename
it. Who is responsible for planning this stuff? Just you, or is
your company's management working on it also?





"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:2A865548-1C36-4CCF-A249-04C0518BE022@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
The Master <TheMaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I have a 2003 domain setup in 1 site no exchange present, I have
now found out that we are connecting to another site,

What's in that other location's network right now? If the answer
is "not much", then "2 domains" isn't really the right phrase
here - you can, and really should, have a single AD domain, with
two sites.

If they've already got an AD domain, and you have an entirely
separate one, you have quite a bit more work cut out for you.


we will be
installing a new 2003 server in this site and need to install
Exchange 2003 on this server, whats the best model for this,

Much depends on the answer to the above....


connectivity is available via Broadband,

Via VPN? Leased line between the two offices?

we have approx 50 users per
site, only 1 exchange server must be installed;

No problem there, but you ought to make sure you've got another
domain controller/DC/GC in the other location where the Exchange
server will be. It should be set up in its own AD site/subnet.



We must be able to accomplish the following;

Users need to be able to log into both sites, on different PC's
and be able to access exchange from both sites via outlook 2003.

OK - if you have a single domain (or a domain trust between two
different ones) this isn't that big a deal....however, roaming
profiles will not be very useful if a user in site A goes to
site B and wants to log into the domain from there. It'll
probably take ages to log in the first time, even with a small
profile.

We need Outlook to automatically setup itself up for the users,
with the server name , username etc?

That's not an Exchange thing. You'd have to use a customized
profile tool for that. Search at www.slipstick.com for 'profile'
.

Any questions fire away

I think I did!



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