Backup Exchange 2003 Enterprise server?

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Cwhitmore - 11 Jan 2008 14:28 GMT

My agency doesn't have the money to fund a full disaster recovery setup for
Exchange 2003 Enterprise, but I'm wondering if this will work.
Setup a second Exchange 2003 Ent. server in one of our remote offices, leave
the Exchange services turned off, backup production Exchange server to remote
office. If production server goes down, turn on Exchange services at remote
site, replace mail store and logs on second Exchange server with backup from
production.
I know that I would have to change everyone's outlook profile, but will this
work?

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Rui Silva [MVP] - 11 Jan 2008 16:44 GMT

There is some guidance from Microsoft about standby servers.
Read this chapter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006.aspx,
from the Disaster Recovery Guide
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125070.aspx)

And here's a great presentation:
"Catastrophic Hardware Failure & Recovery with Exchange Server 2003"
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/learning/downloads/roadshows/
TechNet%20Day%20-%20Best%20of%20TechNet%20-%20Catastrophic%20Hardware%20Failure%
20Recovery%20-%2029th%20March%20-%20Eileen%20Brown.ppt

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> My agency doesn't have the money to fund a full disaster recovery setup
> for
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daveberm - 11 Jan 2008 18:00 GMT

On Jan 11, 9:28 am, Cwhitmore <Cwhitm...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

> My agency doesn't have the money to fund a fulldisasterrecovery setup forExchange2003 Enterprise, but I'm wondering if this will work.
> Setup a secondExchange2003 Ent. server in one of our remote offices, leave
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> I know that I would have to change everyone's outlook profile, but will this
> work?

No, this will not work. You will also need to re-home your user's
mailboxes. See my post here...

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.exchange.misc/browse_thread/thre
ad/a363dc9a6e14a235/001c548feeed0118?hl=en#001c548feeed0118

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