RE: 2003 store requirements on specialized servers

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1: I have clients that delete PF stores on MB only servers with no ill
effects so you should be fine as well.

2: If you delete the mailbox store on a PF or BH server, that server will
not be able to send NDRs in the event of message transmission problems so I
would advise against doing so. And I believe there will be other
consequences to deleting the default mailbox store as well that I am not
aware of. I suspect that your antivirus application would also break since
may that I have seen create system mailboxes for themselves.

HTH

"Ex Gomer" wrote:

> I have seen bits and pieces of best practices as it relates to the
> usage of mailbox and public folder stores but wanted to ask here to
> get more advice.
>
> I have a server that will hold only public folders, a server that will
> act as a bridgehead and internet connector, and a number of mailbox
> only servers.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Should I delete the publc folder stores from all but the primary
> and secondary specialized servers? What is the impact to free/busy
> etc. As long as the public folder server is specified for each
> mailbox store is there any reason to hold local copies of the public
> folder store?
>
> 2. On the bridgehead and public folder servers, should I delete the
> mailbox stores? (same general idea)
>
> I want to eliminate unnecessary stores for many reasons, some being
> efficiency, general "best practices", keep users from creating users
> or folders on the wrong servers etc.
>
> Anyone have the general guideline for this and what is best?
>
> Thanks!
>
.

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