RE: To Setup Exchange or not to Setup Exchange...That is the Question.
- From: Doug Andrade <DougAndrade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:36:01 -0700
Fist of all, I would get all the computers and users logging into active
directory. Once you have done that you can organize your company with OU's
and Group Policies. That will make your life a whole lot easier.
I would also use the current server that you are using as long as it has
enough rescources to handle the load that Exchange will put on it. With the
amount of users you are talking about, you will have tons of SPAM comming
into your server in no time, so you will either have to have a very fast RAID
setup on your current server or be willing to part with a few extra dollars
to buy another server that you can use as an SMTP server with a good antispam
app on it like GFI or something like that. Or you can buy a pre-made antispam
device like a barracuda spam firewall. Investing in a good SPAM filter will
save you a lot of headache down the road because SPAM will have your hard
drives wirking so hard they will not have time to do anything else. Also be
sure to enforce mailbox size limits on your Information Store. Exchange 2003
standard should be OK as long as you do that. With the amount of users you
have, your will find that your database will grow too large and too fast
without limits. Even if you have Exchange Enterprise, you will be unhappy
with the size of your database after a year or two. End users seem to use
their mailboxes like its a NAS unit.
You can also setup RPC over HTTP for your sales people to reteive e-mail
with the Outlook client while on the road. As long as they have an Internet
connection, they will be able to use the MAPI client to send and recieve
e-mail. RPC ove HTTP works great when setup properly.
Setup Outlook Web Access as well. This will allow any user to access their
E-mail as long as they have an Internet connection. This works for your
workaholics that want to check their e-mail while on vacation and do not have
their own laptop with them. It also helps a lot to have a third party SSL
certificate for this as well since a lof of hotel business centers only allow
trusted SSL certificates on their web browsers.
You can use just about any type of phone to send and recieve e-mail. Most
phones can download a simple POP client to the phone to get E-mail. If you
want a full featured outlook client (well, it's kinda full featured) you will
have to use a dataphone that has Mobile 5 on it. And if you decide to use
Mobile 5 phones, be sure to buy a third party SSL Certificate like Thawte or
Verisign. This will also save you a whole lot of time and headache since
these certificates are already trusted by default.
Dig it, Enjoy it and have fun with it. :)
"Sean" 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). 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...does anyone have any
comments about this feature?) 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. Any thoughts/
opinions would be appreciated!
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