Exchange and seperate domains

[David Johnson]

I support a Government Dept. that recently moved from GroupWise email to
Exchange email. I used to have the GW post office inside my building and
under my control. Now my Exchange accounts are all on a different AD Domain
(in the same forest) on an Exchange Server I have no control over.

Service suck. (the people supporting us not the software)

I want to remove my people from their Exchange server and create my own.
Both Domains are in the same forest, I am a seperate tree in the same
forest.

Questions:
Right now the only plus see of my people being on the "official" forest
Exchange server is to be able to have one global address book. I don't
believe we are required to be on their Exchange server for this to be
possible Am I right? Two domains in the same forrest can still share a
global address book using their own Domain's Exchange server?

If I broke off from them, what problems would I be looking at?

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

So long as you join your Exchange Server to the same organization as the one
that is currently being used, you'll get the GAL for them and you. I believe
you need Enterprise Admin rights to do this.

Potential consequences? There will probably be mail routing issues and a lot
of pisst off people in the hierarchy.

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Brian Desmond
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