Dang it. Forgot something... The PFs in the UK should be replicated to the US, but not the reverse. I'm sure that complicates things a bit...
Kurt On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the middle of upgrading our Exchange 2003 infrastructure, and > am getting ready to deal with the PFs. > > I'm lacking a bit of info, and if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. > > I have two overseas sites (UK and AU) that have metered connections. > For the UK office, I can't do anything about it, because we'll be > moving everything Exchange-related from there to the US office. > However, the PFs in the UK office are already replicated to the US > 2003 server, so I believe that I should just be able to add replicas > from the US 2003 server to the US 2010 server, then once the mailboxes > in the UK office are moved to the US office I can remove the replicas > from the UK server, and all should be good. > > But, the other office (AU) will have an Exchange 2010 server, and they > also have a lot of PFs. > > I'm looking at the strategy below to minimize impact on their WAN > traffic, and if anyone can validate it, I'd appreciate it. The current > set of PFs for the AU office are replicated to the US 2003 server. > > o- Add replicas of the AU current PFs to the new AU server > o- Add replicas of all of the US 2003 PFs to the US 2010 server > o- Add replicas of the AU 2010 PFs to the US 2010 server > o- Remove replicas from the AU and US 2003 servers > > I believe that this will minimize WAN traffic - if done in this order. > > If true, that's good, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to stage > this process. The articles on PF replication and moving all so far > seem to assume either high-speed links between all sites, or a single > site. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Kurt > >
