August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
15h
English
The Site Replication Service
The SRS is in general a poorly understood component of Exchange 2003 and of Exchange 2000 before that. For the most part, it’s perceived to be a component that allows an Exchange 2003 server to synchronize directory information with an Exchange 5.5 server. In some part, this is true. However, the SRS’s role in life is merely to allow an Exchange 2003 server to participate in Exchange 5.5–style directory replication. Why might an Exchange 2003 server need to do this? This chapter sets out to explain just that.
Only the Active Directory Connector provides the mechanism to perform directory synchronization between the ...