Failover

Solboy · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 5

Hi:

Our exchange organization is right now with two servers, one old exchange
2000 which is sending and receiving mail from the external world (it's more
or less a front-end) and another exchange 2003 which receives mails from the
exchange 2000 and sends mails to the exchange 2000 (more or less a
back-end).

My question is simple. I'm afraid my exchange 2000 will stop working becase
it's an old machine and I have no way to recover it.
My idea it's the following I'm thinking in installing another exchange
server in my exchange organization with it's own IP address (it'll be a
failover server, with no mailboxes). If my old exchange 2000 server stop
working my idea is turn off the old exchange 2000 server and change the IP
of the new installed exchange and assignate the IP address of the old
exchange 2000 server to the new one. Will this solution work?????

Do I Have to do something else???
What should I install in the new machine Exchange 2000 or exchange 2003?

I hope you can help me

Thanks in advance

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange2000>setup>installation

Leif Pedersen [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 193

Hi,

Your solution should work, but if you only use the server for SMTP trafic
why have it at all?

And why keep the 2000 server around, if you want to have the new server
install this and then change the servers at a convenient moment, not while
under pressure because of a server failure.

Leif

"Solboy" wrote in message %23fr6YrHHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi:
>
> Our exchange organization is right now with two servers, one old exchange
> 2000 which is sending and receiving mail from the external world (it's
> more
> or less a front-end) and another exchange 2003 which receives mails from
> the
> exchange 2000 and sends mails to the exchange 2000 (more or less a
> back-end).
>
> My question is simple. I'm afraid my exchange 2000 will stop working
> becase
> it's an old machine and I have no way to recover it.
> My idea it's the following I'm thinking in installing another exchange
> server in my exchange organization with it's own IP address (it'll be a
> failover server, with no mailboxes). If my old exchange 2000 server stop
> working my idea is turn off the old exchange 2000 server and change the IP
> of the new installed exchange and assignate the IP address of the old
> exchange 2000 server to the new one. Will this solution work?????
>
> Do I Have to do something else???
> What should I install in the new machine Exchange 2000 or exchange 2003?
>
> I hope you can help me
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>

Solboy · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 5

I know it's a silly thing what I want to do it but that's what my boss want
me to do and if the captain says this is what I want, I'm a soldier and I
just want to know that It can work with no secondary effects.

Thanks Leif
"Leif Pedersen [MVP]" escribió en el
mensaje @TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Your solution should work, but if you only use the server for SMTP trafic
> why have it at all?
>
> And why keep the 2000 server around, if you want to have the new server
> install this and then change the servers at a convenient moment, not while
> under pressure because of a server failure.
>
> Leif
>
> "Solboy" wrote in message
> %23fr6YrHHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi:
>>
>> Our exchange organization is right now with two servers, one old exchange
>> 2000 which is sending and receiving mail from the external world (it's
>> more
>> or less a front-end) and another exchange 2003 which receives mails from
>> the
>> exchange 2000 and sends mails to the exchange 2000 (more or less a
>> back-end).
>>
>> My question is simple. I'm afraid my exchange 2000 will stop working
>> becase
>> it's an old machine and I have no way to recover it.
>> My idea it's the following I'm thinking in installing another exchange
>> server in my exchange organization with it's own IP address (it'll be a
>> failover server, with no mailboxes). If my old exchange 2000 server stop
>> working my idea is turn off the old exchange 2000 server and change the
>> IP
>> of the new installed exchange and assignate the IP address of the old
>> exchange 2000 server to the new one. Will this solution work?????
>>
>> Do I Have to do something else???
>> What should I install in the new machine Exchange 2000 or exchange 2003?
>>
>> I hope you can help me
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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