front end servers- geographically different loations.

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ats-dan - 13 Dec 2005 22:05 GMT

I am currently dealing with an organisation that has two exchange 2000
servers, located in two geographically diverse offices. Both the servers are
part of the same exchange organisation. One larger corporate office and one
smaller satellite office. They have expressed interest in a front end back
end topology, what are my options here ?
One front end server at the main corporate office?
A front end server at each location?
Opinions and advice appreciated.

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Bharat Suneja - 13 Dec 2005 22:56 GMT

If you have sufficient bandwidth between locations, one fe should work. Have
worked with deployments that do it without any visible latency for mailboxes
residing in remote site. (again, your results may vary depending on
available bandwidth... )

In any case, single fe can certainly be a starting point, and if users at
location2 feel the latency, you can add another fe at that location.

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>I am currently dealing with an organisation that has two exchange 2000
>servers, located in two geographically diverse offices. Both the servers
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> A front end server at each location?
> Opinions and advice appreciated.

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