I would like to have two exchange organizations on disparate domains share the GAL and exchange as much collaboration as possible such as instant messaging. I understand I can create a VPN between them and create manual trusts but if it all possible I would like to avoid creating any trusts for political reasons. If I do have to create trusts then I would like to design it in such a way that only the GAL is shared as a resource and any other means of collaboration that Exchange could offer like public folders etc. One Domain is Windows 2003 / Exchange 2003 organization and the other Domain is Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 Both on different geographical locations. I also would like to know if I can extract the GAL from one system and import it into another system so at a minimum I can run weekly batch jobs of extracting the GAL and importing the GAL between each other as separate address books so each organization can lookup the other organizations email and contact information. Any Microsoft documentation would be great as reference and thanks to all those who look at my post and help Kind regards, John
GALSync in MIIS Feature Pack to synchronize GALs (can be scripted, but painful and one-time dump, not a true synch like MIIS) Rod Fournier has step-by-step instructions on his blog http://msmvps.com/clustering/archive/2004/10/06/15141.aspx InterOrg Replication Tool to be able to see free/busy (and replicate other public folders if required). http://msmvps.com/clustering/archive/2004/10/06/15140.aspx Will require trusts to be established. -- Bharat Suneja MCSE, MCT www.zenprise.com blog: www.suneja.com/blog ----------------------------------------- "John" <John @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E52CF9CA-5F3F-48D4-8EC0-883FBEDA007E@microsoft.com... >I would like to have two exchange organizations on disparate domains share > the GAL and exchange as much collaboration as possible such as instant > messaging. > > I understand I can create a VPN between them and create manual trusts but > if > it all possible I would like to avoid creating any trusts for political > reasons. > > If I do have to create trusts then I would like to design it in such a way > that only the GAL is shared as a resource and any other means of > collaboration that Exchange could offer like public folders etc. > > One Domain is Windows 2003 / Exchange 2003 organization and the other > Domain > is Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 > > Both on different geographical locations. > > I also would like to know if I can extract the GAL from one system and > import it into another system so at a minimum I can run weekly batch jobs > of > extracting the GAL and importing the GAL between each other as separate > address books so each organization can lookup the other organizations > email > and contact information. > > Any Microsoft documentation would be great as reference and thanks to all > those who look at my post and help > > Kind regards, > > John >
