Re: Deploy Exchange on DMZ or backend?

From: admin too (nguser2u_at_no.spam.AOL.com)
Date: 06/02/04


Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:47:15 -0700

Additionally (again, good info so far) I would have an SMTP gateway for
Virus and maybe spam, too, like the Barracuda (my choice), NAI, or
Borderware.

Remember that with the cluster your SAN could fail so, so much for
redundancy.

"Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@ncDOTrr.com> wrote in message
news:uqHKzzESEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Additionally ( I totally agree with all of that from Jim) I wouldn't count
> on clustering as a fault tolerant or redundant solution. It's a high
> availability solution aimed at reducing hardware-related downtime and
> software upgrade downtime. It can basically save you the time of fixing a
> hardware solution or the downtime associated with hotfix or service pack
> application. It's expensive to deploy if you don't need that extra
granular
> piece of uptime.
>
> Al
>
>
> "Jim Schwartz" <shamusnc@poc.earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:219vc.7743$Yd3.137@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > If you are trying to connect your clients to the Exchange servers and
they
> > are on the internal network you don't need to install anything in a DMZ.
> If
> > you want to NAT port 25 that's fine. If you're looking to put OWA in
> place,
> > I would put that on your corporate network and use a proxy or ISA in the
> > DMZ.
> >
> > In my opinion, I wouldn't ever put anything that I'm not willing to lose
> in
> > a DMZ.
> >
> > "newguy" <akalogerakis_donttypethispart_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:F125B4FE-7362-456C-BE84-2C2477C912A5@microsoft.com...
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I am planning to deploy exchange 2003 in the next few months, but I
have
> a
> > few questions. 1st, we are a company of about 100 users and maybe 150
> email
> > addresses, we will be hosting this in our hosting environment, so i
would
> > like to cluster exchange to have some type of redundancy. Now this will
> > obviously be a privately IP'd cluster, so should we just put a NAT in
our
> > firewall and thats it? or should we put FE servers on a DMZ? and lastly,
> how
> > do you feel about ISA, is it a must when running exchange? Any help
would
> be
> > great.
> > >
> > > Thank you
> >
> >
>
>



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