I have a question about Exchange routing. We have 2 Exchange 2000 servers at our main site, one that
holds all the mailboxes and the other currently holds just a few mailboxes that
aren’t being used, but the server is up and working. Both servers are in
the same routing and administrative groups. Both servers are in the data center
of our main site. The problem is that this weekend, the power will be turned
off in our building and our network will be unavailable as will user’s
mailboxes. We currently have no offsite data replication or So, as a temporary solution, our current plan is to move the
second Ex server to one of our colo sites and add a lower-priority MX record
for it to our public DNS zone. The thinking is that messages sent to our domain
will be sent to the second server at the colo, and this server will cache all
the messages until the main server is back up and mail can be delivered to it. And,
since the mail was received, no senders should receive NDRs. Then, on Monday,
when the power is back, all messages will be delivered to the main server. Is this plan going to work? If so, how long will the
messages be cached by the second server? How many messages will it cache (until
it fills the drive)? Are these options configurable? Does anyone see any
gotchas or things to consider? Thank you very much. I am a novice when it comes to
Exchange, but trying to change that by studying my MSPress 70-284 text.
Besides, I usually do not like to make any major changes to our mail/AD
infrastructure without consulting you guys first. _________________________ Daniel DeStefano |
- RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Routing Dan DeStefano
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- RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Routing Michael B. Smith
- RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Routing Dan DeStefano
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