Help: Adding a Second Exchange Server

Help: Adding a Second Exchange Server

Hellos,
I currently have 1 exchange 2003 SP2 server hosting all my stores. The 
Exchange 2003 server uses a smart host for outgoing messages, and the same 
smart host server is used for all incoming messages which are then forwarded 
to the exchange server. I also have a Front Web server.
I would like to add a second Exchange server within the same site and move 2 
stores to this new server to distrubte load.
Here are my questions:
1) Could someone please point me to some good documentation that could 
assist me with this process?
2)If a user with a mailbox in server 1 sends mail to a user with a mailbox 
in server 2 how is the mail forwarded between servers? What needs to be 
configured for this to work?
3) For incoming mail, what is needed to ensure that mail is delivered to the 
correct Exchange server?
4) What changes would have to be made to the Front End server to accomodate 
the addition of the second exchange server?
many thanks for your time
Blue.

date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:23:03 -0800 author: Bluehades

Re: Adding a Second Exchange Server

Bluehades:

1) 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/exchange/exch1020.mspx
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996360.aspx
    In my own experience you only need to insert the disk of Microsoft 
Exchange 2003, run the instalation as the first server but without running 
"/DomainPrep" "/ForestPrep", when finishing you have a new exchange server 
(ADVICE: READ CAREFULLY WHAT YOU HAVE ON SCREEN BEFORE CLICKING) and then to 
move some users go to your Active directory snap-in then select the users, 
right-click then Exchange Tasks, Move MailBox, select your new server and 
then next, and Done!!!
2) The Administrative Routing Group manages automatically on that routing of 
mails between server 1 and 2
3) The incomming mail can be the current server, the Administrative Routing 
Group take that duty and deliver the mail to the courrent mail server 
(that's why you need your Active Directory)
4) If  your FrontEnd Server is Exchange NONE, Administrative Routing Group 
of exchange does it for you, take this into consideration, if you use your 
smarthost into the SMTP protocol consider to use a conecctor out of your 
server (really easy to deploy and you dertermine which servers are going to 
be your "Main Gateway" (recommended your actual server), if you deploy more 
BackEnd servers you have no why to worry about it, if you remove one just 
verify that your server is not ser as "master" and that's all, you can 
remove that server without concernings..


Have Fun and take care XD

Baruch Ortiz

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> Hellos,
> I currently have 1 exchange 2003 SP2 server hosting all my stores. The
> Exchange 2003 server uses a smart host for outgoing messages, and the same
> smart host server is used for all incoming messages which are then 
> forwarded
> to the exchange server. I also have a Front Web server.
> I would like to add a second Exchange server within the same site and move 
> 2
> stores to this new server to distrubte load.
> Here are my questions:
> 1) Could someone please point me to some good documentation that could
> assist me with this process?
> 2)If a user with a mailbox in server 1 sends mail to a user with a mailbox
> in server 2 how is the mail forwarded between servers? What needs to be
> configured for this to work?
> 3) For incoming mail, what is needed to ensure that mail is delivered to 
> the
> correct Exchange server?
> 4) What changes would have to be made to the Front End server to 
> accomodate
> the addition of the second exchange server?
> many thanks for your time
> Blue.
>

date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:41:00 -0600 author: baruch Ortiz