Exchange Server

ramesh · Guest

hello all

I currenlty have

1 exchange server at our office with 30 users and the other exchange server
at the data center connected via a vpn link.

My question
If the exchange server at the office (win 2003 enterprise) goes down we want
to use the exchange server at the data center (win 2003 enterprise) without
using clustering or SAN. Furthermore, the second exchange server at the data
center needs to have the same mailbox content as the primary in the office.
Can this be done? Thank you

Jesse Myers · Guest

You can use a replication tool like NSI Doubletake to replicate the
information stores etc to the remote server. The trick is that you must not
have Exchange installed on the remote server. When the server in the main
site goes down, you can quickly install Exchange in disaster recovery mode
and users could then connect to their mailbox. I have used this scenario in
the past and it has worked well, but it is important to note that it is not a
true fail over as it takes the amount of time to install exchange on the
remote servers for users to gain access to their mailboxes.

These two sites may help..

www.nsisoftware.com/pro/doubletake/

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Disaster_Recovery.html

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