The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR...
Published May 12, 2008
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Exchange 2007 SP1 Continuous Replication Disaster Recovery Decisions flowcharts
First, good job on the DR process flow charts!
Second, I have a similar question as Mohammed asked. In the example setup, two physical sites are configured as one AD site. It may work OK if you have only two physical sites. What if you have multiple physical sites (more than two) deployed with Exchange, and use an additional physical site as a dedicated DR site? It is not going to be practical to configure all these physical sites as one single AD site. Apparently, Exchange server won't like it that way. And we won't deploy them that way. The better approach should be, I think, to configure an AD site for each physical site. And the DR processes reflect a "true" site wide failover.
Second, I have a similar question as Mohammed asked. In the example setup, two physical sites are configured as one AD site. It may work OK if you have only two physical sites. What if you have multiple physical sites (more than two) deployed with Exchange, and use an additional physical site as a dedicated DR site? It is not going to be practical to configure all these physical sites as one single AD site. Apparently, Exchange server won't like it that way. And we won't deploy them that way. The better approach should be, I think, to configure an AD site for each physical site. And the DR processes reflect a "true" site wide failover.