Perhaps configure them into the network with a full set of connectors identical to the the existing hub, but set the cost on the new connections to 100 (use when the other connectors are not availalbe)?
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 11:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Stand-by servers We have a hub and spoke network of 150 Exchange 5.5 Sites. The centre Site of the hub is just a routing Site with 2 servers (no user mailboxes). All spoke Sites are connected to the hub Site with X.400 connectors (to one or other of the servers). We now need a Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery environment for the Hub. We want to build 2 spare servers in another location, and have these servers take over the role of the routing hub in as short a time as possible. Our plan is to build these spare servers as copies of the live servers (same NT name, same IP address, same Exchange configuration). They will be kept off the network until the central hub is no more, and then the network will be switched, and these servers will become live. How should we build the server?? One idea is: Build a BDC in the normal domain. Then disconnect the BDC from the network, and promote it to a PDC. Then the new (member server) Exchange server can be built off the network and connected into the stand-alone domain using the new PDC. The Exchange server and configuration can then be restored, probably on a monthly basis to maintain it in (approximate) step with the live environment. Anyone know whether these ideas will work? Anyone got other ideas that we should explore? At the present time we are less worried about the spoke Sites, which is where the users reside. Thanks, Chris _________________________________________________________________ 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] Important Message: [This transmission or any part of it is intended solely for the named addressee. It is confidential. The copying or distribution of this transmission or any information it contains, by anyone other than the addressee, is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please let us know by telephone 61 7 3860 2111 or by reply email to the sender. If you are not the named addressee, you must destroy the original transmission and its contents. You may not rely on electronically transmitted material unless the transmission is subsequently confirmed by fax or letter. Material transmitted to you should also be checked by reference to a hard copy of that material printed directly from our word processing system.] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
