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Microsoft Exchange on two sites for redundency and ease of access
We are small business with 55 employees. We have two offices the main offices. The main office has 40 employees and the branch office has 10-15 employees. We need to be able to automatically switch servers when there are issues in any of the sites. We have had a lot of issues with whether the past year where the main site has been down and we have no email. There has been times that the branch office has been down as well. So, I like to know some options that would take care of this issues without the users being effected.
What version of Exchange? Solutions vary with the different features in the Exchange versions.
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The solution has to be local and not cloud. We don't have Exchange now as we are running Kerio Mail server, but we want to replace with Exchange and it can be enterprise if that's the only way to accomplish this. I used to work at a company that any time the local exchange server went down at any of the offices, the users would automatically be switched to the mail server in the main office . I guess Exchange was somehow being replicated. At the same time, their OWA was also redirected which was function of Exchange.
Ideally, you'd set up a DAG (Database Availability Group) that was replicated between offices. DAG's are available in Exchange 2010.
What is DAG:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979799.aspx
A how to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351172.aspx
You'd basically have two independent Exchange servers that replicated the Exchange Mailbox stores. You can break the stores up by the location (Site A Mailbox Store hosted on Exchange Server in Site A and Site B Mailbox Store in Site B).
What is DAG:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979799.aspx
A how to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351172.aspx
You'd basically have two independent Exchange servers that replicated the Exchange Mailbox stores. You can break the stores up by the location (Site A Mailbox Store hosted on Exchange Server in Site A and Site B Mailbox Store in Site B).
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