We have a Windows 2003 AD enviroment.With 1 backend server and 1 frontend server Running Exchange 2003 SP2 Enterprise Ed.The Current site has aobut 300+ Mailboxes of that 2nd Locaiton would have about 25 Mailboxes.We have an seperate building that has some clients in it. We would like to setup a new Backend server for these users in their location (moving their mailboxes from our location to the new exchange server that we would create at their site.We would like to keep it under the same Administor Group in Exchange.And suggestions or recommendations on the setup. Would the WAN link be good enough to just have this server connected as a normal backend server?Any thoughs or pointers would be greatThanksAdam

Hi,Create a new routing group, install the exchange server in this routing group, create a routing group connector, move the mailboxes and you should be fine.You don't say what the speed of the WAN link is, but that will probably only affect the delivery of large mails to the server (might be delayed) and make opening af large attachments through OWA slow for these users. Normal Outlook operations should be faster than now because the mailbox server is local to the users.Leif

Hi!Is the second location is in the same AD Forest?If so, you have to consider the bandwidth of your WAN link for Exchange 2003 and Outlook Clients. Here's the article to get you started. http://teoheras.blogspot.com/2006/01/exchange-2003-bandwidth-requirements.htmlFor me, I think there's no problem with that as long as your bandwidth is higher than the minimum required. The only challenge is that if user mailboxes in your current site is big and you have to move that into the second location which will cross over the WAN links,it'll consume a bandwidth. Also ensure that they are in the same Active Directory Forest and there is a Global Catalog Server in your second location, because Exchange requires a GC in each site.Regards,LRMCP