Merger Requirement

[ATCal]

We just acquired another company. The two physical companies will stay separated for awhile, but I have been tasked with merging email services under company "A" (acquiring company).
Company A is running Exchange 2003. Company B (acquiree) is SBS 2003 (Exchange 2003).
They don't want full IT integration of the two companies initially (no trusting on SBS anyway), but all users are to have company A email addresses, and they want company B users to be replying with company A addresses.
My guess is to create contacts for all the company B users in company A domain (only 25 or so) and forward emails to the company B addresses? The problem is how can I force them to reply as company A users?

Thanks for any ideas or experiences along this line.

Al

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

Make them account is Company A. Then make them use Webmail to send and receive "since this is temporary

 

[58sniper]

They could use Outlook if they're email account is on domain "A". They'll just get prompted for creds each time they open Outlook.

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