I have a Win2K domain with 3 DCs. One of the DC is also E2K server. Is it fine to setup another DC as another exchange 2000 server on the same domain? Idea is if first mail server goes dead, I can manually import the backed up PSTs into this ready to go mail server. Any issues? Any other suggestions? TIA.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:35:03 -0700, Sam wrote: >I have a Win2K domain with 3 DCs. One of the DC is also E2K server. Is it >fine to setup another DC as another exchange 2000 server on the same domain? >Idea is if first mail server goes dead, I can manually import the backed up >PSTs into this ready to go mail server. Any issues? Any other suggestions? >TIA. No, you can't just import exmerged PSTs and get cracking. Let us know what level of resiliency you want to achieve. Also, why 3 DCs? How many users and how many sites have you got?
Thanks Mark, We have two sites. In head office I got one File server and one mail server. On remote site I have third DC. I use a third party software to sync data in real time(including exchange data) to third offsite DC. I made it DC so AD is also available offsite. For the purpose of DRBC, if my main site is unavailable, users can make VPN conneciton to this remote server and latest data is already there. Exchange edb and log files are also available on the offisite server and I also have utilities to extract PSTs from them. So what I am thinking is -- If I can also install E2K on this remote server and in case of disaster I can import PSTs into this database (being a DC all the user accounts are already there). Change MX to this server and BOOM users are back in business. Please let me know what I am missing in this plan. Data ofcouse is critical but in case of disaster we can wait a day so I am not planning upgrade to advanced server for clustering. Thanks again. "Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:35:03 -0700, Sam > wrote: > > >I have a Win2K domain with 3 DCs. One of the DC is also E2K server. Is it > >fine to setup another DC as another exchange 2000 server on the same domain? > >Idea is if first mail server goes dead, I can manually import the backed up > >PSTs into this ready to go mail server. Any issues? Any other suggestions? > >TIA. > > No, you can't just import exmerged PSTs and get cracking. > > Let us know what level of resiliency you want to achieve. Also, why 3 > DCs? How many users and how many sites have you got? >
