Hello, I have a client that currently has a SBS 2003 box here in Australia. What they would like to do is have another server over in South Africa. They want the users in SA to still have the same email domain address as they do here in AUS, eg user1@company.com.au . I am not sure of how to do this so i would like some help or sugestions?? please feel free to ask if you need more details. The server that they want to put in SA will be a SBS 2008 Std edition. will this cause problems? Thanks in advance.

Hi, This should give you an idea on how you should start with this. 1. Global: MX-Record can only point to one-drop off locations so I would say to point @yourdomain.com to the mail server in Australia 2. Australia: Make the @yourdomain.com as an Internal Relay domain. 3. Australia: Incoming mail will be deliverd for existing users. 4. Australia: Make a second Send-Connector that sends "unresolved mail" for @yourdomain.com with smarthost to "mail server in SA" (A-Record External DNS for SMTP) 5. SA: Make the @yourdomain.com as Authoritative Domain. (Unresolved mails will generate NDR's/end of the flow) Now the hardest part is to let people in SA mail to people in Australia: 1. Global: New Mx-Record for @alias.yourdomain.com that points to the mail server in Australia. 2. Australia: Make the @alias.yourdomain.com Authoritative on the mail server. 3. Australia: Make aliasses for the @alias.yourdomain.com for all users. 4. SA: Make contacts/forwards for each user in Australia with the @alias.yourdomain.com 5. SA: When people mail to @yourdomain.com exchange will find the contacts localy and forwards them to the External @alias.yourdomain.com. This should make the circle round. I hope I didn't forget anything :-) Greetzz, Timmy

Excellent thank you for that. Do i do it all in that order? Is it better to Create the other domain on the Existing server first, then setup the new one and new domain and all the required forwarding?

You can setup the other domain first and make the @yourdomain.com as authoritative first. If you are gone make the @yourdomain.com as Internal Relay before the domain exists in SA you will not have an end point and create a never ending loop. Try to make a big drawing so you can actualy visualize this... That helps... Just make sure the circle is round, in anyway you want to deploy this. and... There is a lot more to do than this alone but it gives you an excellent idea of how to do it. The above "only" talks about "e-mail". So no calendar sharing / Resource Mailboxes / and so on from one location to the other (only local you wil have these options). And since you only speak about "SBS", I presume you don't have that much of resources to set this up big time. Also make your users aware about the inconveniences against the other location... Because once they are used to it (local) they will ask for more :-) Greetzz, Timmy