Exchange Server setup? Need advice

[guest2013-1]

Hi,

I want to have several servers worldwide, one in Hong Kong, one in the UK and one in America. Each of them should serve the same companies email via Exchange.

So [email protected] mail goes to all 3 of the servers and can be downloaded from anywhere in the world depending on which server is closest.

I imagine this will also help with redundancy and availability as if one server or internet line is down, there is 2 more to serve your request.

I'm hoping someone can let me into what kind of setup I'm looking for to achieve this. Do I have 4 servers, 1 the central server and the other 3 replicating from it (Cluster?)

Thank you for your time and effort placed into your answer

 

[kerberos]

Is the company hosting the mail inhouse or are they planning on using another service provider to host the mail for them? Might not be worth the trouble hosting your own mail as any good isp have clustered servers with high speed connections along with their own backup and disaster recovery strategies in place. On the other hand hosting your own mail gives your more control over the situation, with added responsibilities of course.

 

[Claymore]

What sort of speed lines are you talking? Clustering may be a problem (at least, over WAN lines), but OWA is quick, and in cached mode, Outlook is prett quick over a WAN.

 

[guest2013-1]

Is the company hosting the mail inhouse or are they planning on using another service provider to host the mail for them? Might not be worth the trouble hosting your own mail as any good isp have clustered servers with high speed connections along with their own backup and disaster recovery strategies in place. On the other hand hosting your own mail gives your more control over the situation, with added responsibilities of course.

We would essentially be their service provider. They want their servers in house and managed by them. Yes, I understand the responsibilities and the drawbacks of doing this myself, but I'd rather have a 100% spam catch rate and no false positives than to have to wait for an ISP techie to get back to me and try to tell me that he knows better than I do (which in most cases is not)

So yea, any type of solution you could propose? Is exchange capable of this setup?

 

[guest2013-1]

What sort of speed lines are you talking? Clustering may be a problem (at least, over WAN lines), but OWA is quick, and in cached mode, Outlook is prett quick over a WAN.

Talking 100mbps servers connected over 8gbps redundant lines from data center to data center

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Have a shufty at the excellent msexchange.org web site for all your answers.

I use said site for my needs mostly.

You can also post your question on their forum and see if anybody'll be able to help you.

Good luck!