a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel.
b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked "this is an additional server". c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I Thanks On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: > > a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability > b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 > b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after > > Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the > extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end > up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure > out the problem. > > Carl > > ------------------------------ > *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* step 1 > > OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become > unmanageable. > > My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... > > We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS > connection. One domain over both. > > I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some > reliability. > > RIGHT...! > > Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get "Exchange is > off-line" messages. > > 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization > we don't have)? > > 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? > > Thanks in advance > > G. Waleed Kavalec > > > > > -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------- "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
