I am working on a domain that has multiple sites across the united states and Europe in one domain. In the united states we have an Exchange 2003 box that is hosting email for all of the US. I'd like to install an Exchange server in Europe for that continent with a different DNS domain but still within the same active directory. For example: Active Directory: ADDOMAIN United States External DNS (for mail) DOMAINUSA.COM Europe External DNS (for mail): DOMAINEU.COM Where the Exchange server in united states has a mail store for DOMAINUSA.com and the exchange server in Europe has a mail store for DOMAINEU.com. I believe this will work, but when I go to install exchange in Europe, I'm afraid that it's going to do something crazy to the Schema or existing data. Can I get some advice on this? Thanks SH
Hi, If you're using a single domain and only seperating countries using different AD Sites then you will only have 1 Schema. There would only be 1 Schema if you were having a TLD and Child topology too. As this is one of the two Forest Wide FSMO roles. Therefore no forestprep or domainprep work is required, simply the creation of your new AD Site and Subnet, and the setup of Routing Group connectors between sites. Oliver
In regards to: United States External DNS (for mail) DOMAINUSA.COM Europe External DNS (for mail): DOMAINEU.COM You can provision these automatically to the corresponding EU or US users by the creation of Recipient Policies. Oliver
On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:15:28 -0400, "G. Samuel Hays" wrote: >I am working on a domain that has multiple sites across the united states >and Europe in one domain. In the united states we have an Exchange 2003 box >that is hosting email for all of the US. I'd like to install an Exchange >server in Europe for that continent with a different DNS domain but still >within the same active directory. > >For example: > >Active Directory: ADDOMAIN > >United States External DNS (for mail) DOMAINUSA.COM > >Europe External DNS (for mail): DOMAINEU.COM > >Where the Exchange server in united states has a mail store for >DOMAINUSA.com >and the exchange server in Europe has a mail store for DOMAINEU.com. > >I believe this will work, but when I go to install exchange in Europe, I'm >afraid that it's going to do something crazy to the Schema or existing data. >Can I get some advice on this? > Adding a new server will not do anything to the schema. >Thanks >SH
