This is one of those scenarios with strange requirements from a client:
There are two Forests that don't want to have anything to do with each other
but they want to share the same SMTP address which belongs to the first
Forest. However the two Forests belong to the same company ...

  I am in the middle of designing a DR for my Exch Org.  I have a question
about backing up the Metabase.  Should this be an every day occurrence?  In
other words - should I set it up to be backed up every day?  I have had an
issue in the past where I had to install Exchange ...

We're a medium sized, tight-budgeted, State University.  Here's our
situation, we have faculty/staff email, about 1500 accounts on Exchange
2003, with email addresses like:
Lynne.Seamans@millersville.edu   (firstname.lastname@millersville.edu)

Hi, in my smtp logs EHLO,MAIL,RCPT are logged for an incomming email, what
does it mean when the DATA is missing?
We are using RBL's for symantec nav for exchange.
thx jason

We are performing an Inter-Organizational migration from 5.5 to 2003. Is
there any reason why the new org cannot have the same name as the old one ? I
have seen a poost saying that exprofre will not work if the two are the same,
but would like confirmation of that, and whether ...

We installed last week a new exchange server on a site in UK. This server is
included in our exchange organization.
Both servers are running Exchange 2003 SP2. The UK server is also a DC and
GC for the UK site. Both servers share the same public folder tree. We set up

Hy.
i'm terminating the config. of a new xchange system,
he needs is to have both owa and oma(active sync) working, and if possible
OWA under SSL protection and OMA in clear http. i know they cannot co-exist

I had 1 mailserver (Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003, latests sp and
updates), servicing a single domain (lets call it domain.com), with a
smarthost setup (an external company, messagelabs, does all our virus
scanning).

I've got a bit of a confusing problem.
We have got an Exchange 2003 org and we are going to be moving the mailboxes
from a Windows 2000 domain to it. In the E2k3 domain, we already have
contacts set up for the users that we are going to be moving.

Guys I need immediate help
i need to know minimum hardware requirement for an exchange server with
10.000 accounts (30MB mailboxes)
Initially am thinking is to have 2 cluster as backend connected to 1

Scenario:
Existing domain is child.domainA.corp.   Exchange 2003 SP1 (will SP2
before move) and a few DC are all that is in the root & child domains,
no member servers or workstations.    Due to being bought by another

Here's our current environment:
Forest 1:
Running Exchange 2003 in the parent domain with 6500 mailboxes.  Active
Directory is Windows 2000.

Do all GCS's have to be updated?  It says in the white paper "all GCS acting
as back-end exchange servers".  ???
what is a gcs acting as a backend server?

I have a server installed with windows server2003, exchange 2003, sharepoint
and ISA 2004 some other services like dns, dhcp and wins. This server is
located in our single tier network and is connected to the internet. The
server is overloaded and i am planning to move some of ...

Background:
Currently at a client that is migrating/consolidating 6 different
domains into one new domain.
One Exchange 2003 (SP2) server in its own domain.