Re: To Setup Exchange or not to Setup Exchange...That is the Question...
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:49:50 -0400
Sean <sean.ivey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alright, I'm looking for opinions here.
Company - I'm working for a company with about 150 employees. 100
employees are using desktops in a corporate office, while 50 of them
are sales guys. Growth potential is quite large; we added 10 people
to the sales force yesterday.
Email - Currenlty we're using webmail.us to host our email. Basically
we have emailed popped to us into Outlook 2003. We have an Exchange
2003 Standard server setup. We don't really utilize it execpt for a
few public calendars.
Goal - My first project is to get everyone's computer into AD (yeah,
they're in workgroups...ugh).
<cringe> Ouch.
After that, we need to make a decission
about our email setup. We want everyone to have their own personal
calendars. We would like to have the ability to send emails to phones
(I know, we need Win Mobile 5 or better
You can use WM2003 too, but it doesn't support push mail.
...does anyone have any
comments about this feature?)
Wireless Activesync with WM5 is awesome. I suggest you have a corporate
standard for your devices rather than trying to support a hodgepodge of
models.
There's also Blackberry, of course, but then you really need a Blackberry
Enterprise Server.
There is also a third party app with an
Exchange connecter that we would like to be able to use (integrates
it's client info with exchange).
My Thinking - I'm thinking this is a point were we can really set it
up right, but I'm not sure if the cost would be justifiable. I'd love
to setup an ISA server, have a frontend server sitting behind it, and
then of course a backend server. No SAN or NAS, so I'd probably setup
a fiber attached bucket of drives or something.
What are your thoughts? Should our setup be this elaborate? Do you
recommend any exchange hosting services out there? We would definitly
look at hosting out our Antispam and virus because we don't have the
bandwidth necessary to take care of all that ourselves.
I'm a fan of that as well. Mailfoundry.com or Postini are my current faves.
Any thoughts/
opinions would be appreciated!
As far as the basic requirements to run Exchange...you don't absolutely need
ISA....you don't absolutely need a FE/BE config...you don't absolutely need
a SAN or NAS. However, in your environment, some or all of those things may
make sense. I suspect that Standard isn't going to cut it for you; even with
SP2, it allows only for 75GB stores, and you can't set up multiple storage
groups/stores. You might consider E2007 if you're going to be starting fresh
anyway.
External Exchange hosting for that many users is probably going to be
wickedly expensive.
.
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