Exchange Server - Remote Office has latency problems

Asked By Art

18-Nov-09 05:01 PM

Hi,

My company has a main location, where our Exchange server lives,  and a
remote location that gets its email from our Exchange server.  We have about
a 2Mb/sec connection.  The remote office is running into problems when
downloading email with large (>2MB) attachments.  Is there isome way to have
something like a satellite Exchange server in their location?  That is,
something so that our Exchange server can send their mail to their Exchange
server, and the user would not be waiting for his email to open?

I really know very little about exchange, but would appreciate any advice or
suggestions anyone has.

18-Nov-09 09:47 PM

What version of Exchange?  What is the remote location WAN upload/download
speed?  How are the remote users connecting to the Exchange Server, eg,
Cached Mode, Online Mode, RPC over HTTPS?

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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2009
Microsoft Certified Partner

19-Nov-09 11:18 AM

Hi John,

We're using Exchange 2003.  The remote location is in Canada, we are in the
US.  They have a cable connection of sorts.  Their download speed seems to
have dropped recently to slightly under 1 meg.  They work in Online Mode.

19-Nov-09 04:19 PM

It sounds like, apart from a network upgrade, the best you can do for them
is to suggest that they use cached mode.
--
Ed Crowley MVP
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20-Nov-09 09:53 AM

Ed,

Suppose we put an Exchange server in that remote location.  Is there a way
to transfer the mail that we receive at our main location up to that
secondary server.  And in reverse, when they send something out, could it go
to their local exchange server and then be sent to ours prior to being sent
to the recipient?

20-Nov-09 12:41 PM

If you move their mailboxes to that server, yes.
--
Ed Crowley MVP
.