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TD - 27 Jan 2005 02:09 GMT

We have a sister organization that has an office in DC and will be
establishing an office in Uganda (Africa). I am not sure what kind of
bandwidth is available to the internet in Africa (Uganda). I was wondering
whether it is possible to setup an Exchange 2003 infrastructure that has 2
email servers 1 each in each location, be part of one forest, share the same
domain suffix (abcd.com)? Would such a setup be feasible or recommeneded? Are
there any pros and cons on such a setup? What would other people recommend?
Would replication cause issues in such a scenerio? What kind of routing group
setup would be recommended in such a situation? Would it be better to create
a child domain for Uganda location? I am open to suggestions.
Thank U in advance.

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Kurt Mosley - 28 Jan 2005 15:41 GMT

Someone else feel free to contradict me, but in my opinion geographic issues
should not be cause for a new domain or forest with Windows 2000/2003 and
Exchange 2000/2003. The question is more of an administrative one. Does
Uganda have full control of all of their IT stuff? If they have an
independant IT group, I'd give them their own Active Directory Domain. If
they are in the same forest then you'd definitely want them to be in their
own site.

With Exchange, again it depends on the amount of controll they'll be
handling. You'd definitely want them in their own routing group, but you'd
probably want them in their own administrative group as well if they'll be
managing the server.

> We have a sister organization that has an office in DC and will be
> establishing an office in Uganda (Africa). I am not sure what kind of
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> a child domain for Uganda location? I am open to suggestions.
> Thank U in advance.

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TD - 28 Jan 2005 15:57 GMT

So are you there will not be an issue if we used the same domain suffix in
this case?

> Someone else feel free to contradict me, but in my opinion geographic issues
> should not be cause for a new domain or forest with Windows 2000/2003 and
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> > a child domain for Uganda location? I am open to suggestions.
> > Thank U in advance.

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