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QUESTION POSED ON: 29 December 2005
We currently have a single e-mail server on our domain. We plan to move e-mail accounts into two separate servers using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 for staff and students. However, we would like to keep the same e-mail address format -- user@jsums.edu -- for everybody. What is the best way to set up this scheme?


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The Recipient Update Service (RUS) is an Exchange 2000/Exchange 2003 service that updates the recipient objects within a domain with specific types of information. You can schedule appropriate intervals to update the recipient objects. For example, the RUS updates recipient objects with address list membership and e-mail addresses at intervals scheduled by the administrator.

Two servers in the same forest/organization would share the same recipient update policy as defined for that enterprise. I think it would be worthwhile checking out information on RUS so you better understand the answer -- which is yes.

You can have the same proxy address span multiple servers, as long as you specify the policy to stamp a particular address space. Please take a moment to look at Microsoft's Recipient Update Service and the following screen shots.

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