Re: Advice needed - running Exchange
- From: Mike <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:52:00 -0700
E.,
Thanks for the info. As far as setting up the drives, the way I partitioned
this server is with a 30Gb partition for the OS and 100Gb set aside for
Exchange, but all the drives are part of an Raid 5 array, and I can't
repartition (I don't think). Could I put the logs on either a mapped or USB
drive, or would the performance suffer, or is that just a bad idea in general.
thanks,
Mike
"E. Palmer" wrote:
Hi,.
I do not agree that you need a second NIC, however I think you should step
up the functionality of your hardware firewall and get a Sonicwall TZ170 or
similar device with gateway AV and more advanced functions. Either that or
do get the second NIC and learn how to run ISA. You want 'layered security'
and a better firewall will help. You should also have an Exchange specific
AV solution.
I do not agree that this is so easy to administer, you will spend some time
on it and your super is right to be concerned about how much time you will
spend, however, Exchange is totally great and worth it. Making the change
from POP3 to Exchange is easy for experienced people but still requires doing
things. I first moved to a third party POP3 connecter (Native POP3 by
MAPILABS) so that I could pick up POP3 mail and leave it on the ISP POP3
server, and also schedule pickups better then the stock connector. But
eventually the reason to leave mail on server, which is to allow users to
pick up mail from two or three locations outside the office, becomes moot
when you implement Outlook with HTTP over RPC. Which is the greatest thing
since....... When you get the HTTP over RPC going you eliminate the need for
'leave mail on server' because you always have all your mail, including sent
items, calendar, contacts, etc. in all places all the time. You can't do
that with your POP3 scheme. I can't tell you how this has changed my and
everyones life because finally everything is consolidated and available from
anywhere. Think about how many copies of contacts in various different
computer psts you have under the POP3 scenario, yuk. In addition, calendar
shares and other integration become easy and fun.
So, absolutely go for it, but you need to have your organzations DNS
parameters set up, and you need to read and understand what the steps are,
there are quite a few and not so obvious. I went through a couple situations
when moving the pst's around and stuff that ended up with alot of double
emails, and other issues that freaked things out It will take time and
energy to get going, but once it is, everyone will love it. Get the Harry
Brelsford book Advanced SBS 2003 Best Practices.
Set your drives up from the beginning to be separate from your other system
drives, you should have dedicated physical drives for the Exchange stores and
a separate one for the Exchange logs. This is important not only because of
performance, but also how you back up and are then able to restore in the
event of nasties. I much prefer an imaging based backup solution rather than
the stock SBS backup. When you restore, you do it from an image rather than
having to reload the OS an then go through the SBS restore. Hopefully you
will never have to experience that.
Prior to SBS R2 the Exchange store has a 16gb limit anyway I believe, so
100gb will not be used well, but these days who cares.
There are a lot of posts about this, check em out.
Sincerely
"Mike" wrote:
Owen,
I don't know exactly what I would need to use, whether it be POP3 or SMTP,
although I know most prefer SMTP as you mention. Would the benefit of POP3
be that all of the e-mail is still flowing through the ISP and in a Exchange
disaster, e-mail would still flow?
Thanks,
Mike
"Owen Williams [SBS MVP]" wrote:
In article <0A5CB6D3-60F3-46B9-84E7-58B1C5B71864@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
This is encouraging so far. I am running SBS 2003 Premium, and I set aside a
100G partition for Exchange, do you think that will be good enough? Also, do
you use the POP3 Connector to you ISP?
I have several small (SBS + 4 to 6 workstations) non-profit clients.
Your Exchange partition size will depend on [1] number of mailboxes, [2]
maximum size of a mailbox, [3] whether or not you use Public Folders,
and [4] leaving enough space for occasional information store
maintenance. The information stores on the servers I manage are all
under 2GB, so depending on your client's particulars, 100GB may be
overkill for an Exchange partition. But it really depends on the
client's requirements and expectations.
The POP3 Connector takes a lot of bashing in this newsgroup. While it
has its quirks and could certainly be improved, I have successfully used
it at my non-profit clients, sometimes for years before converting to
direct SMTP. [One is still using it (since Jan 2005) since there is an
issue with the web hosting provider owning the client's domain name and
therefore the MX record.] The POP3 Connector's greatest virtue in this
market is that it is included with SBS - I have yet to meet a non-profit
which said "money is no object!" ;-)
Having said all that, moving to Exchange (whether SMTP or POP3
Connector) from direct Outlook or Outlook Express POP3 retrieval has
*many* benefits and all of my clients are glad they are using it.
-- Owen Williams (SBS MVP)
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