Michael,
We have created a brand new forest that is reserved for Exchange. Then each company in our group has their own forest that will trust the Exchange resource forest. We then link their mailbox in the resource forest to their AD account in the user's respected forest. I am following this article below (this is for Exchange 2007, but same concept). If I am still not making sense, e-mail me off list. http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/planni ng-architecture/deploying-exchange-resource-forest-part1.html -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 Uh....depends on what you actually mean by resource forest. If you mean a traditional resource forest, then absolutely. It has to go both ways. If you are treating each individual forest as basically a "hosted Exchange" company, then maybe not. But that leads to other considerations (including password synchronization). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pohlschneider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 This is probably a dumb question, but I don't have a lot of experience in the Exchange resource forest model, but if all companies forests have trusts setup with the resource forest and the mailboxes are on the same Exchange server would I even need a GAL synch tool? -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 Still is, in my opinion, as far as Exchange 2010. Quest's tool isn't yet ready (late this month I believe is the forecast), Microsoft's free tool isn't ready (no comment on availability that I know of) but FIM 2010 has RTM'ed (but I don't know GA), and there is another third party that JUST released, but I'm blanking on their name. IMHO. YMMV. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pohlschneider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 A while back I sent this question in whether we should go with Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010. We were leaning toward 2007 because the plan was to be on it by now. However, we still have not installed Exchange in production and we have SA through our Microsoft agreement. We are going to be installing a resource forest and establish trusts between the different forests to make this project work. Michael noted that the GAL synch tools would be a blocking factor and I am wondering if that still is the case or not. -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 Well, first, I'm not sure I'd do it that way, but I don't know your environment. GAL synchronization tools are more mature for Exchange 2007, and I expect them to be that way probably throughout most of CY 2010. That is what I would probably regard as a blocking factor for Exchange 2010... Regards, Michael B. Smith Exchange MVP & Owner: The Essential Exchange http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael From: Chris Pohlschneider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 Hello All: We are going to be immersed in a company wide e-mail project this year that will involve multiple forests. Our plan is to create an Exchange Resource Forest and establish trusts between all of the forests that we are going to be hosting e-mail for. More than likely, we will be starting the install of Exchange in the second business quarter of this year. I would like to get an opinion from the list of whether Exchange 2007 would be the best option since it has been out for a while or go with Exchange 2010. Chris Pohlschneider Holloway Sportswear Network Administrator [email protected] 937-494-2559
