Re: Synchronizing two servers

With a VPN and some clever scripting I daresay you could.

Use Exmerge to .pst the mailboxes, Copy them with your other datafiles
to the new server and then exmerge the pst to the other mailboxes. ( not
that there are limits to exmerge -won't work for public folders etc..-
and you'll break single storage - but it's a powerful tool - Check the
Dock file in the download. )

Expensive option though, buying a second SBServer so you can have the 2
running concurrently just for the transfer of location.

Personally I'd be more inclined to build a Cold Server and do a restore
from Backup at the new Site.

--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/


"Mark" <Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:31A8CA6C-26EA-4849-BA64-B5AE0AEF1DF4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> My company runs a SBS2003 domain that works just fine. We are moving
> offices, and I am setting up a brand new SBS2003 server at the new
> location.
> The two sites are connected by a DSL link, so its not suitable for
> large data
> transfer.
>
> I pplan to use User State Migration Tool to move everyone's desktop
> and
> e-mail, and recreate their desktops in the new office (everyone is
> getting
> new machines).
>
> Once I have done this, can I synchronize the new server to the old
> server
> every night to keep the Exchanhe mailboxes and maybe some folders
> sync'd, so
> I don't need to do another big migration on M-Day (migration day)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Mark


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