>From a design standpoint, I have to agree, which is why I asked why he wasn't going to a single AG earlier. From a practical standpoint, however, since the person posing the question has no authority and it sounds like little influence over the other subsidiaries, his options are limited.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Scharff Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 7:04 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: FE-BE question Up until E2K3 SP1, one could at least resign themselves to the fact that things are what they are and the upgrade just keeps those things in place. With SP1 you can now do what I'm going to coin a 'limited green field migration' where you upgrade an existing Org to Exchange 2003 and then using the SP1 move tools consolidate administrative groups and servers into as few as possible by bringing up new/replacement servers in the main admin group and moving users between admin groups to them during the upgrade process. I understand companies not playing well together and using address book views (or the E2K3 equivalent) you can give them their own GAL views. With E2K3 you can even give them their own databases and storage groups (and limit the PF hierarchy so each group can only see their own. Difficult to consolidate IT infrastructures when each group is trying to piss in the other's Cheerios, but to the extent you can cachieve that through brute force, the cost of the contest is defrayed from an IT standpoint. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] > Posted At: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:45 PM Posted To: swynk > Conversation: FE-BE question > Subject: RE: FE-BE question > > Politics is not an invalid reason for administrative groups. I agree with > Scharff's recommendation. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry > Wahlers > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 6:53 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: FE-BE question > > Many thanks, Ed, for your reply. > > You wrote: > > Why do you want do that? > > > > In fact, If I were you I would be working on a strategy to reduce my > > infrastructure to one administrative group unless I had a compelling > > reason to keep the four. > > If it had been up to me, a few years ago when management decided to move > to > Exchange, we would have had one server, period. We only have 1,000 users > after all. > > Problem is, there are six different corporations involved. Once upon a > time, they all played nice with each other, but no longer. Now, it's > every man > (or > org) to himself, and they all want their very own Exchange server no > matter what. And, they didn't want their GAL to be broadcast to > everybody else's > GAL. (I've about got them all convinced that it's better if we can all see > each other's address, though.) > > So, as is usually the case, it's a political issue, certainly not a > technical one. I'll be able to get 3 of the corps. onto one server, but > the > other three will insist on their own. > > Larry > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi- > bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi- > bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > dl.sparklist.com > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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