Hi, We have a small subsidery company that is part of our larger company that just purchased their own exchange server. We would like to see all recepients in GAL from both company's. Should we have this new exchange 2K3 server join the exising site or create a new one? (There are approximately 200 users in parent co. and 25 in subsidery co. They are both MSX 2K3 - Parent is Enterprise and subsidery is Standard edition) Another consideration is these two company's are connected via T-1. Thanks, Scott
Exchange 5.5 used "Sites" as administrative & routing boundary. Exchange 200x separates these into Routing Groups and Administrative Groups. The former is a message routing boundary, and the latter - as the name suggests - is administrative grouping. If you want admins from subsidiary company to only be able to manage their own Exchange server, you can create a new Administrative Group (*before* you install Exchange on the new server) and install the server in the new AG. As far as message routing is concerned, if you have more than one Exchange servers in your primary site and only want one (or more) bridgeheads to route messages to the subsidiary's Exchange server, you can place it in its own Routing Group and create Routing Group Connectors (both ways). Regardless of which way you go, recipients on all servers in the Exchange Organization should be visible in GAL by default. -- Bharat Suneja MCSE, MCT www.zenprise.com blog: www.suneja.com/blog ----------------------------------------- "ScottMaine" wrote in message news:8EB4E2A5-F31C-4821-B9D7-6E022E117E78@microsoft.com... > Hi, > We have a small subsidery company that is part of our larger company that > just purchased their own exchange server. We would like to see all > recepients > in GAL from both company's. Should we have this new exchange 2K3 server > join > the exising site or create a new one? (There are approximately 200 users > in > parent co. and 25 in subsidery co. They are both MSX 2K3 - Parent is > Enterprise and subsidery is Standard edition) > > Another consideration is these two company's are connected via T-1. > > Thanks, > Scott
