automated move mailbox

[cruzd]

Our company has two offices, separated by the Pacific ocean. I am constantly moving mailboxes from one office to the other, as users travel back and forth. We do this to so that clients can access their mailbox locally in each office, for better overall performance, and will not be affected if overseas connection goes down.

My question is: Is it possible to perform a scheduled mailbox move? (ie. script, or 3rd party software, etc.)

This way, if I know that a user will be making a trip, I can just schedule the move right before his plane takes off.

Here is my set up:
*2 domains, same forest
*1 exchange 2000 organization
*both exchange servers are in the same administrative group






tia

 

[brontosaurus]

i don't think you can do a scheduled move. how about setting up a second mailbox as a sort of "mirror". That is, when user "Joe" goes to Asia, he logs into the Asia domain and accesses mailbox-Asia, which has a rule to forward all messages received (except those from Joe himself) to mailbox-U.S. , then when user "Joe" is in the U.S. , he logs into the U.S. domain (with the same ID) and accesses mailbox-U.S., which has the same set of forwarding rules...make sense? This way, both mailboxes have the same content...

 

[pdtit]

Brontosaurus,

This idea really interests me !!!

Could you please explain more in detail how you've set this up ? Are the rules defined in Outlook or on the Server ?
Do you configure 2 mailboxes for the same user, or 2 different logins as well ??

Feel free to clarify...

Regards,

Peter

 

[brontosaurus]

hi Peter, the user would need to have an ID in each domain, like "AsiaID" and "USID". each ID would have a distinct mailbox. the mailbox rules would be set up in outlook, but would be stored on the server as they don't require any user intervention to function. make sense?