AHHHH! STOP! IT MAKE MY HEAD HURT!
On 08/01/2018 07:36 AM, Erich Kaiser wrote:
I agree, it can become a maintenance nightmare. It is not so much
installing it and getting it up and running but moving to new
revisions of windows and exchange, We got rid of all of our hosted
services and put them on O365, Best decision we made. Not to mention
the licensing is not cheap either, once you add in the cost of Windows
and Exchange and CALs, Spam software... Don't forget backups..
Erich Kaiser
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Ryan Ray <ryan...@gmail.com
<mailto:ryan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've built out 30k mailbox exchange implementations and honestly,
unless you have someone to keep up on the patches / maintenance
it's probably easier and cheaper to just use office 365.
To do exchange properly, you're going to need a spam appliance of
some sort, a couple load balancing appliances (f5).
You don't really move your virtual machine DC or Exchange VM's.
You have DAG groups with copies of your mailbox databases on
multiple servers with cheap spinning storage. You should never
snapshot an exchange machine, or a DC.
Fill out your requirements on here
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2013-Server-Role-f8a61780
<https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2013-Server-Role-f8a61780>
and see what comes up.
Of course you can also do exchange improperly / non high
available, one server, one proxy server, if you lose it though,
your email stops. So this really comes down to how resilient you
would like your email to be.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Paul McCall <pa...@pdmnet.net
<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net>> wrote:
We are looking to subcontract a new build of Exchange / Domain
Controller. Our thoughts are to buy a used box like this...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Build-Your-Own-Dell-Precision-T7500-12-Core-3-06GHz-X5675-No-OS-Wholesale/382099411087?hash=item58f6e6508f%3Am%3AmoWAAapWvQJ0VWFy5npBnFQ&var=650987938542&_sop=15&_sacat=0&_nkw=dell+precision+t7500+%2212-core%22&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_TitleDesc=0%7C0
<https://www.ebay.com/itm/Build-Your-Own-Dell-Precision-T7500-12-Core-3-06GHz-X5675-No-OS-Wholesale/382099411087?hash=item58f6e6508f%3Am%3AmoWAAapWvQJ0VWFy5npBnFQ&var=650987938542&_sop=15&_sacat=0&_nkw=dell+precision+t7500+%2212-core%22&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_TitleDesc=0%7C0>
with 48GB. They charge a whopping $ 60 to put in dual TB SATA
drives and establish the mirror (RAID 1) for you, so figured
we might as well. Although, in reality, I like the idea of an
SSD drive for speed purposes, but have not used them in a RAID
1 config. Not sure if this box would support that.
Thinking of redundancy, we have a couple ProxMox boxes (pretty
loaded but could be used in a pinch to move the DC / Exchange
VM over to it (IF we do a VM). So, might be good to do this
box as a ProxMox VM also.
So, looking for someone who can put this software install
together for us for a reasonable price.
If you know somebody...
Paul, PDMNet
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