Re: exchange failover

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:50:15 +0200, "Solboy"
<crespo_santamaria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Mark, but perhaps I haven´t explained the situation correctly
thinking it was simplier.

The old exchange 2000 server is connected with a private line with a server
from a telecom company. They receive our mail and send it to the old
exchange server which has just one or two mailboxes which can even be
deleted with no problem. This exchange 2000 when it receives mail send it to
the mailboxes which are in the new exchange 2003.

This has to be so for more or less one month, but my boss (I'm going on
holiday) wants to have a plan so if the old exchange server fails to replace
this server with another one with the same IP so the telecom company haven't
to change anything and we can keep on receiving mails. So my idea was to
have a machine in the same exchange organization ready (with no mailboxes)
and if the old exchange 2000 server fails, turn off the old exchange server,
change the IP to the new one to have the same IP so the telecom company can
keep on sending the mails to us.

Do you think this is a good solution???

In which case an Exchange server is a waste of money. All you need is
a simple Windows SMTP service which will take the mail and forward it
to your main Exchange server.
Get rid of this old box completely and stick a new PC or something up
there instead. By all means do another machine and keep it on hot
standby if you need. Your IP address changing plan is a decent enough
idea for a standby job.
.

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