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Hi,
I have 14 offices and 2 HQ,the HQ are connected to all the offices and between them via frame relay. Every office has 10 users except one that has 20 and HQ "A" have 40 users and HQ "B" only 10 users. Currently we only have one exchange server, locate in HQ A.
I am trying to figure out if i should install another exchange server in HQ B, if i do it,
will i be able to share the wan traffic between both sites (HQ A and HQ B)?
Will it be possible to have it as a secondary server in case the first one crash? if the first one crash will it be easy to mount the database in the new one?
What other benefits can i get from installing another server?
Thank you very much

Rezuma

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by cg it

you can have a "cluster" of exchange servers with one [or more] acting as the bridgehead for the "cluster" in a round robin fashion.

If both HQs are in the same domain yes, however if they are different domains, domains are security boundries and you would require relaying enable to handle seperate domains or child domains. relaying is ok if you restricty relaying to specific computers but configuration wise its a big pain.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Implementing-Two-Node-Cluster-Windows-2003-Enterprise.html

this is an overview of clustering exchange. There are many more articles on msexchange.org dealing with the senario you have described.

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