Re: best practises during exchange 2k3 server standard edition deploym

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From: Rui J.M. Silva (rjms(nospam4me)_at_oninet.pt)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:59:40 -0000

Exchange standard has a limitation of 1 single storage group, 1 mailbox
store, maximum size 16GB.
I think that will be just fine for 200 users.
The best advise I can give you has to do with file location. If possible
install Exchange Logs and DBs on separate disks:
Logs: RAID 1
DB: ideally RAID 0+1, if not possible, RAID 5

At the end of your installation you can run Exchange Best Practices Analyzer
Tool (www.exbpa.com).
There's lots of good documentation at the Exchange Server 2003 Technical
Documentation Library
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/default.mspx) 

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> we are deploying exchange 2003 std edition on our windows 2k3 std
> edition.....is this ideal?
>
> please advice me or point me to web pages on the best practises, configs
> that i must keep in mind to setup our exchange server for 200 users, using
> OL2k3.
>
> cheers

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