exchange guru needed

[McBunny]

right i have a situation i need help with


we own 2 companies one in york and one in irthlingborough connected via a vpn but are 2 seperate domains.

what we need to do is allow the irthlingborough company to have full access to the exchange server up here at the same time as their own

so when in out look you can open multiple accounts the user can open one from york and one from his local server at the same time.

whats the best way to go about this using exchange 2003

 

[David]

Two profiles on the local machine surely?? or do you mean something else?

Over here, we've got like 20 child domains which users log on to and you just assign the permission in active directory so that can have full mailbox access. But the reason ours is like that is because all the mailboxes are created and stored on the parent domain rahter than each subdomain, maybe you should employee that technique?

 

[McBunny]

yes something else

basically we want them to be able to see the accounts from both servers like this all mailboxes been viewable within one outlook profile and also be able to reply from it

 

[Pete]

Surely you just setup a trust relationship between the domains?

 

[McBunny]

Surely you just setup a trust relationship between the domains?

nope as you cant have 2 servers in one profile

 

[David]

In active directory goto exchange advanced, mailbox rights, add the user on whichever child domain they're on, then when they log onto the outlook profile add the mailbox to their profile.

HOWEVER: if your trying to have two differnent exchange servers on the same profile. You can't do it. Simple as that, you'd have to have two profiles each connected to a different server instead.

 

[Pete]

nope as you cant have 2 servers in one profile

Was talking about the backend side of it (exchange/AD) not the crappy outlook front end! lol :rasp:

 

[McBunny]

couldnt i share a mailbox between 2 servers ? in a sort of replication way so the mailbox would be stored on both servers and accessed from either server

so say
at the mo the mailbox is on server 1
but i want it be able to be used by a user on server 2

so could i maike mailbox 1 available to both users of server 1 and 2 by replicating it ? so it would appear as if it was a local account ??

 

[McBunny]

Was talking about the backend side of it (exchange/AD) not the crappy outlook front end! lol :rasp:

yes but what im asaying is on teh front end you cant specify 2 servers so the back end doesnt matter at the moment they can access it by using 2 profiles but it means they need to log out of outlook and back in to see the mail in teh other account

 

[Pete]

couldnt i share a mailbox between 2 servers ? in a sort of replication way so the mailbox would be stored on both servers and accessed from either server

so say
at the mo the mailbox is on server 1
but i want it be able to be used by a user on server 2

so could i maike mailbox 1 available to both users of server 1 and 2 by replicating it ? so it would appear as if it was a local account ??

Lol welcome to position 20 on my to do list, I was hoping to have something similar for our DR setup however all that I've read regarding it (ok not looked for about a year now and didn't look very long then anyway) says to restore it in the same way you did 5.5 for DR, there's evolution for ya! lol

 

[David]

put a forward on one of the mail accounts hehehe problem solved!

I'm not sure about the replication option...i figure it would end up with sync errors. Can ask a colleague though and let you know later what he thinks.

 

[McBunny]

a forward is no use as it needs to be able to reply to the mail from the account that they send it too

the 2 companys produce the same thing but for different markets one highend one not so and they want to keep them seperate to the customer but consolodate things behind the office door.

its an aftersales account i need to set up and this bloke has a lot of experience at that so they dont want to employ 2 people when 1 can do it but he cant be in 2 places at once damn him !!!

 

[David]

you can still do that though with a forward.

in AD you have to goto security permissions and given them send as permission. then add the from field in outlook and they can send from whatever account you give them access too.