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by Member 31124317

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Hi Guys & girls,
I was asked can my exchange 2003 be a centralized mail server for all subsidiaries in rest of the world.
Although i could set up VPN between subsidiaries, hence we are all running different network scopes, which is ok. I am aware that they are all running earlier version of exchange on their networks i.e. 2000.
Now if i was to obtain their exchange boxes and migrate their mailboxes to my server, can their domains join to my domain, even though we are geographically far apart and on different segments! Or can i just point their outlooks? to my exchange without touching their networks nor DC.
I guess its not a question for novices no disrespect, but you can imagine imprecations!
I would appreciate for your feed back, thanks in advance.

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by churdoo

Of course there's a lot buried in that Yes.

You're not providing numbers of sites or users so just talking theoretically here.

The first and easiest thing that comes to mind here is to use Outlook RPC/HTTPS from Outlook 2003 or higher clients to your Exchange 2003 Server at HQ, and of course Outlook Web Access (OWA). The users would have a separate user account on your Active Directory for their E2K3 mailbox at your site. For this, you could VPN your sites together but you don't necessarily have to if you don't otherwise have a business need for the VPN's.

For the migration, one of two possibilities here.
1) Build the site-site VPN tunnels, establish TRUST between your AD and the remote site AD, and migrate users and mailboxes with the Exchange Migration Wizard (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328871)
2) EXMERGE (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174197) user mailboxes from the remote sites into .pst files. Import the .pst files into new user mailboxes set up at HQ

by Member 31124317

appologies for not much of details, i did post them in discussion forum.
Appreciate your feed back.

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