Best practice to setup the following senario; office in Vancouver connected through a vpn to office in Calgary How to - deliveryemail through the vpn without the mail going out to the internet and back into the network Smtp connector, smart host, routing group - which is better?

Cindy, What versions of Exchange are you supporting? Are you currently deployed? Do you have more than one routing group already? Does your VPN connect you "network-to-network" or does each computer/server have to establish a connection over the VPN? If you connect "network-to-network", I would probably create two routing groups and use a routing group connector. Jim