Thanks for all the tips, appreciate your time, I just get confused reading
all the books about design theory it is fun to play with all the different
setups, but I dont have enough hardware to try and set up a mock up of the 2
different ideas I have which are:
First off here is what I have for each of the 7 branch offices and for 1
corporate Each branch office gets 2 New compaq servers, nice hardware latest
and greatest out of the 2 servers I need a BDC at each branch to join the
corporate NT4 domain, a file server, and a Wins server since its in a large
routed setup. I have 2 thoughts on whats best to set it up.. Please note
that T1s are relativly reliable, and lots of room for more traffic.
THEORY #1
server 1- BDC to corporate domain/ Exchange 5.5
server 2- File/Backupserver/Wins
This exchange server would be in its own site, with a Site connector and
Directory replication to the corporate site.
THEORY#2
server 1- FileServer/Exchange
server 2- BDC/Backup server/WINS
This exchanger server would also be in its own site with a Site connector
and Directory replication to the corporate site.
**Questions***
1- Does each site need a site connector to everyother site to have
recipients in the gal for all sites???
2- Or if each site is replicating its directory and has a site connector to
corporate will it get all the other sites from corporate.... again thanks
for time and expertise...
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Bouzan
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:25 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Routing SMTP mail in a Hub spoke exchange environment
Practically the same as my Co! - Here's what I did.
I inherited seven sites that were all talking via ISDN dial-ups. Once the
leased lines were installed I did this. I first moved Exchange onto a new
NT4 server from the PDC that it was originally installed on at HO. I then
visited each of the other sites in turn, saved off data etc, PST'ed the
mailboxes and trashed the (then) PDC in that office. I then reinstalled it
as a BDC to the domain at HO, reinstalled exchange making it a server in the
site defined at HO and sucked the PST's back in by hand [1]. Each site
would have only taken me a day but I allowed two for each just in case of
any problems.
WINS runs on the PDC at HO and I set up another box just for the IMC that is
connected to another leased line via FW-1 for SMTP and Web etc. I use a
service called NetEquIP that is managed by British Telecom - it provides (at
present) a 64K leased line into each sub-office and a 256K host leased line
at HO to aggregate the sub-offices. This has been happily handling domain
replication, exchange natter, centralised web access and internet email for
well over a year now without any problems at all. Exchange Link Monitor
reports round trip times of ~30 seconds and I have a lot of happy users! By
the 8th of October I should have 256K into each sub-office and a 4Mb fibre
at HO to allow for increased traffic.
In fact last week, a new office came on board and I added them as the eighth
server into the site at HO. Within two hours they were all up and running
and I got home nice and early.
PBB
[1] - Tip, use a seperate client PC for each PST save-off, I had the mailbox
saves complete by lunchtime!
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 27 August 2001 03:23
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Routing SMTP mail in a Hub spoke exchange environment
At each of the 7 branch offices their are 60 users, here is what I am
thinking of:
- At each branch office a BDC for the domain/NT4sp6/Exchange 5.5 sp4
- All branch office are connected to corporate by full t-1's
My questions are the following:
-I have read that putting exchange on domain controllers is bad, in large
sites, but mine is relativly small, at each site I only have 2 available
servers 1 for BDC, 1 for either file print server/exchange or possible wins
and file server what do you think is best??
- Even though the connections between sites are fairly fast, should I still
make each branch office its own site??? or should they all be in the same
site ? what are pros and cons of both, I have set up site connectors a few
times and have fairly decent success with them, but not with this many .. so
I would like to hear others opinions on this, of all the exchange books I
have read they recomend only intersite replication on fast lan technologies,
they recomend seperate sites across wan links so you can more accuratly
control replication....
- best method to set up Name Resolution, I have heard Exchange on DC is bad,
but some people say it speeds up name resolution since exchange uses NTs
directory for authentication, so should I put it on a BDC at each branch
since each is relativly small or should I put a WINS server at each location
and set up replication, my thoughts is that with 8 wins servers it will be
come high maintenance... Thanks for your time..
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Bouzan
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:41 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Routing SMTP mail in a Hub spoke exchange environment
~ndi
How many users in all/at each office?
PBB
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 August 2001 21:02
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Routing SMTP mail in a Hub spoke exchange environment
*** WARNING - THIS MESSAGE ORIGINATES FROM THE INTERNET ***
I am looking for a good document or advice on how to set up the following
mail routing setup and any issues that anyone may have seen:
I have 7 Branch offices, all connected by full t1 connections to the
Corporate office, the only internet connection is through Corporates t1 out
to the internet.... Currently we are running groupwise 5.5 for all
messaging, and I have just implemented exchange 5.5sp3 on NT4/sp6 running
the groupwise/exchange connector on exchange (man what a pain) and on
Groupwise the Mail gateway NLM API..... So now I have all of my Groupwise
mailboxes synced to exchange 5.5 as Custom recipients,,, this is where I
need advice at... I have to join an existing Exchange Organization and route
all mail for company.com to the exchange servers running smtp at corporate,
so I need advice/docs on how to set up smtp routing from multiple branch
offices up to the corporate servers who actually have the internet
connection.... I have the migration stuff licked my users can log onto
either grouwise or exchange and see each other and send mail, but it is now
time to remove groupwise, and set up the smtp from my branch offices to the
corporate smtp servers for outside mail via exchange.. Thanks IA
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