Re: Thoughts on SMTP edge design (E2k7)

Ahh, government, say no more.
The Ironport subscription that you will purchase and install will
provide a far greater level of security than the Exchange will offer
out of the box.
You could do a comparrison for them though. Get all the pricing for
Forefront from Microsoft and the Ironport. Put that together in a
proposal, make it a gazillion pages of text, government folk just love
massive tomes, and see what drops out.
It's not just Exchange you need to think of. Not sure if you knew that
the Edge isn't the be all and end all of the Microsoft offering.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:26:35 -0500, "Scott"
<twobntouch_Remove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark,

Boy if you only knew the half of it... Its been requested and denied on
multiple occasions. Sometimes the gov't just doesn't understand the
logistics of planning an enterprise Exchange infrastructure. Especially one
that involves migrating 110 different Exchange 5.5 organizations into a
single Exchange 2007 org. Its what I like to call in ths business.... a
slow moving train wreck. :)

I pretty much understood the same thing you said, just wanted to get a quick
sanity check.

Thanks,

Scott

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:15:17 -0500, "Scott"
<twobntouch_Remove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,

I'm putting together an E2k7 solution for a large organization (120k
users)
that will be split across to hub sites (60k/60k). I'm looking at using
the
Edge Transport/Edge Sync process with ADAM for perimiter security.
Considering security and availability are the top 2 requirements for this
facility, I've thought about utilizing an appliance such as the IronPort
X1000 as the 1st point of entry.

My question is, if Ironport is the way to go, would the Edge services be
an
overkill considering the Ironports do basically the same thing? One of my
concerns is placing ADAM out in the premiter, even if the user accounts
are
hashed, etc...

Any input is appreciated. If you've looked at similar solutions, I'd be
curious what your determining factors would be.

Scott

If you are using an Ironport device then you have no use for Edge.
Not sure what else I need to say.
Why are you coming here for advice on a design this large? Surely your
customer has a Premier Support contract and MCS days where they could
have given you a much more fluffier statement and probably convinced
you to use Edge instead?


.

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