Re: Guideline for Exchange server in branch office

[Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 19:46, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am looking for some better (more up to date...) guidelines for setting
> up an Exchange server on SBS 2008 for a remote branch office where the
> internet domain is hosted elsewhere on a Linux server. The branch is
> pretty much a stand alone server and since the main email is hosted on
> Linux there is no Exchange to Exchange configuration chance.

Sorry, but i'm not sure if i understand correctly what you're trying to say.

Your have a domain example.com. Currently, everything for example.com
including Mail, Web and DNS is hosted on a Linux machine. You want to
reconfigure that to

a) retrieve certain mailboxes from the Linux machine using POP3
b) reconfigure the Linux machine to point the MX entries directly to
the Exchange server

I'm not sure where the branch/main office stuff comes into play - do
you have multiple domains? branch-example.com and hq-example.com? Or
do you want to share a single SMTP Namespace like example.com between
the Linux box and Exchange?

How many Exchange servers do you intend to have? Since youre speaking
SBS, my assumption is that you're only going to have a single Exchange
server in the HQ that runs on the SBS machine? Is that correct?

Also, some other questions:

Will there be a VPN connection between the branch office and the HQ?
Will the clients in the branch office be domain joined?

Sorry for asking that many questions in return, but i just can't get a
clear picture of what you're trying to accomplish.