My employer is wanting to install Exchange 2003. This will be a initial setup, all of our e-mail is being handled through an outside provider right now. Does anyone have the abc's or a reference for an initial Exchange 2003. Everything I read makes it sound fairly complicated. I am sure when we do this it will be a weekend and management will expect it to be up and running by the following Monday. Is that realistic? Or can we expect e-mail service to be down for a while? Any help would be appreciated.
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Starting Exchange 2003 from scratch
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It's realistic to have it up and running before the weekend. It all depends on scope. What are you going to do with existing email? What client/server solution are you using now? Have you done an Exchange design? What features do you need? How many mailboxes? How big are the mailboxes? Lots of questions.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
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I am not sure what you mean, doing with the exisitng e-mail. Will Exchange handle the e-mail now or will we continue to use the provider we currently have? I assume by client/server solution you mean Outlook. No we have not done an exchange design. Probably 75-100 mailboxes, we have not discussed the size of the mailboxes. Am I correct in saying that the size of the mailbox will be an issue going forward? You always have that one or two who want to leave a bazillion e-mail's in each folder. I also am not sure of how you will back up using exchange, will it still be a pst? You are not kidding when you say alot of questions. Your help is appreciated.
Well, you need to take things into consideration when purchasing hardware for storage. What's the space requirement now? What's the project user count growth? What's the project mail growth?
Yes, Exchange can handle it now.
Never use .pst files. Never. You need an Exchange aware backup solution such as CommVault, Backup Exec, etc.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
Yes, Exchange can handle it now.
Never use .pst files. Never. You need an Exchange aware backup solution such as CommVault, Backup Exec, etc.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
dmz740 - If you are not familiar with Exchange (no offense, but your comments definitely indicate you are not), my advice is to hire a consulting firm to assist with the project. You should be able to pickup quite a bit of information from them in short period of time.
It's standard practice these days to implement mailbox quotas in Exchange to control size.
Existing mail would be all the mail from prior to your move to Exchange. For example, the e-mails that employees have from January 2008; you would need to come up with a method to migrate this data from the existing provider to your new Exchange environment.
It's standard practice these days to implement mailbox quotas in Exchange to control size.
Existing mail would be all the mail from prior to your move to Exchange. For example, the e-mails that employees have from January 2008; you would need to come up with a method to migrate this data from the existing provider to your new Exchange environment.
TechyMcSe2k
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I would suggest your company send someone to a week long class for Exchange 2003 planning/deployment/architecture/management/AD Integration/Disaster Recovery/and migration of current email to new exchange environment
Have fun, I enjoyed my Exchange class years ago.
Cliff, MCSE/MCSA/MCTS/CCNA/VCP/CCA
I would suggest your company send someone to a week long class for Exchange 2003 planning/deployment/architecture/management/AD Integration/Disaster Recovery/and migration of current email to new exchange environment
Have fun, I enjoyed my Exchange class years ago.
Cliff, MCSE/MCSA/MCTS/CCNA/VCP/CCA
All things considered, a consultant might be a better use of the funds. A class on migration and installation would be fine if you were going to do a bunch of them. But if it's a one time deal, get a consultant to help. Just my opinion.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
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