Since you already have the MS licenses, could you have a totally separate "standby" forest configured with just a couple of DC/GCs and one E2K box with very strict mailbox limits? Presumably it's not a breach of licensing to have standby/recovery servers so you are just stretching that point a little.
This would work nicely with your Outlook Express idea as well. Mark H x50668 -----Original Message----- From: Cook, David A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 2001 13:47 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Seriously been tasked with this Happy Friday to all. I should have saved this for a Monday morning as I'm sure it's going to bring many laughs and many people saying that this is absolutely crazy. I've been tasked with this though and I thus have to come up with a solution and pricing for the solution. I doubt it is anything that will seriously be implemented but here is the job at hand. I'm running Exchange 2000 with all incoming mail coming in through a Mail Marshal mail gateway. We had a situation a few months ago in which we had major AD replication issues that cause DCs/GCs to respond very slowly and in some cases not respond as DCs/GCs at all. This caused Exchange to be unusable and for all practical purposes we were in a network down situation for 3 days with Microsoft in house working the issue with us. As we all know if AD is down then Exchange is down also. The task is to make sending, receiving and access to recent emails available in the event of another network down situation. Obviously if the physical network is down this is impossible but if Exchange goes down then they want email to be available in some way. Since E2K relies on AD I figure this secondary access can not include E2K. My thought, and I don't think the money could be justified, is that I have some type of a POP server that no one ever logs into. I would have a mailbox for each user on that POP server and every message coming in from the internet would be forward from the gateway to Exchange like it currently is and a copy also sent to the POP server. The POP server would then need the functionality to automatically delete any emails over a certain age. In the event of Exchange being down we could notify everyone to open Outlook Express which we would have preconfigured through policy to point to the POP server and the users would be functional with respect to email. I'm prepared for some interesting responses to this crazy idea. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-231-8352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ###################################################################### The information contained in this electronic mail transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is intended solely for its authorized recipient(s), and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, or responsible for delivering some or all of this transmission to an intended recipient, you have received this transmission in error and are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from reading, copying, printing, distributing or disclosing any of the information contained in it. In that event, please contact us immediately by telephone (402)346-6000 or by electronic mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete the original and all copies of this transmission (including any attachments) without reading or saving in any manner. Thank you. ###################################################################### _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify me immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC, unless specifically stated. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
