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by billc124

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This is more for clarification purposes then anything else. We are about to open a branch office and are going to be introducing another Exchange 2003 server into our domain. The two offices will be connected via an MPLS link. I am thinking that all I should need to do is just install the server and join it to the domain and it should see my other Exchange servers. Do I need to do anything else? I only have one Administrative Group and I only really want to end up with one. Do I need a routing group connector? I am not going to be modifying my MX records since we have a spam filtering appliance, the box in the branch office is just going to host mailboxes, everything will still go in/out through our main office. What if anything should I be looking out for with this configuration. Any advice is appreciated.

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by billc124

Thanks for the reply, but I do not see how that applies to my situation. I am NOT trying to rename a domain.

by bart777

I wouldn't spend the money for a second Exchange server. Since you have a good connection between the 2 offices you could just set the users in the other office to point to the main server for thier mail. Configure the clients to use Cached mode so that they have a copy of their mail in the even that the server is unreachable due to a link problem.
Since all of your mail is still going thru the primary server there really isn't any need to install a secondary server. I think that $15k+ would be better spent elsewhere.

Just my $.02
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Best of luck.

by billc124

I already have the servers and money isn't an issue. The main reason for installing the secondary server is for the amount of space the mailboxes take up. And you can get an Exchange server up and running for way less then 15K these days.

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