I have a fairly interesting problem to predict the outcome of....

my companies exchange organisation - org-x has 4 sites; 
sites A, B, C and D

Sites A and B are based in the States and were created as the first sites
when the organisation was set up. The public folder tree originates from
a server on one of these sites.

I am based in the UK and look after Sites C and D which were created 
later.

Whole organisation is Exchange 5.5, there are 9 servers in total within
sites C and D with over 3000 clients. 

Our parent company in the States is switching to Notes and wants to turn
off their entire Exchange infrastructure within 2 months. 

My question is what will happen if sites A and B go offline? And what 
can I do about it in the meantime to preserve my exchange sites C and D. 

We have our own IMC in sites C and D and site connectors linking C and D 
together so we are pretty much self contained. We're also not bothered
about internal mail from sites A and B as that will travel via internet
in the future. 

Is the way forward going to be as simple as changing the 'first site
server' from a server in sites A or B to a server in site C? Or is there a
more significant server which defines the Exchange organisation? Is it
feasible to transplant our sites to a new organisation? Or is the exchange
organisation structure replicated down to all sites so sites can go off
line permanently without any side effects?

Any thoughts, comments, useful web URL's gratefully received.

Many thanks

Andy Russell
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