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Replicate AD/E2K info to multiple sites.

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I have two Exchange 2000 Servers in the same organization but different sites. They both exist on their own W2K AD domains with Internet access and my problem is creating directory replication between the two sites. I wish to use the Internet as thetransport mechanism. I know the replication needs to occur between the two active directories but I'm not sure how to make this occur.
Example: I have an organization myco with two sites (site1 and site2). The AD domain at site1 is domainone.com and the AD domain at site2 is domaintwo.com. Both locations have didacted Internet access so how can I make dir rep occur between them across the Internet?

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by tony.colgrove

First the unfortunate news. Exchange2000 Organizations are bound by an AD forest. So since your two AD domains are seperate, even though the Organization names are the same, they will never be in the same organization (because your AD forest, is the organization boundry).
Since Exchange2000 uses AD for its directory service, AD is the replication piece, not Exchange (like in 5.5).
Good News- InterOrg/InterForest (same terms when speaking AD/Ex2K) can be done with the Microsoft Metadirectory Service (MMS).
An Interforest Solution
None of the current Microsoft interorg solutions for synchronizing mailbox information between Exchange Server 5.5 organizations work with Exchange 2000 because Exchange 2000 uses AD. The interorg tools that work with Exchange Server 5.5 depend on a Directory API (DAPI) interface to the directory or work only with the Exchange Server 5.5 DS. Win2K and Exchange 2000 include the Active Directory Connector (ADC), which uses LDAP to synchronize between Exchange Server 5.5 and AD, but the ADC currently doesn't support interforest synchronization.
Although not really a directory synchronization utility, MMS can combine the mailbox-enabled users and groups native to each Exchange 2000 organization into one directory (the MMS metaverse) while keeping track of which organization owns each directory entry. MMS can update any of the connected forests with entries external to the local Win2K forest namespace so that those users show up in the Exchange 2000 GAL. Through attribute flow, administrators have granular control over which attributes flow between the forests to support the business needs of each organization. In the near future, Microsoft will add an interforest synchronization wizard to help you configure MMS. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/server/features/mms.asp

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