I am adding a question to this scenario, can OWA in Exchange 5.5 connect to servers that have their Information Store on a different subnet?
Michael Robertson
MCSE, MCP + I, SCSA
Systems Administrator
Starnet Systems Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 5:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Architecture question
What are you guys doing for the user side of things? PC's, phones, etc?
-----Original Message-----
From: Dillon, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 2:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Architecture question
OWA users should be happy with the DS3, but the issue is backups. Flames
erupt in the MAIN location as the daily backup finishes. I'm gonna guess a
changer full of tapes will be the first to go. At that point, you've got an
enterprise restore in front of you and the REMOTE tape will surely have
directory info that is out-of-sync with the archive tapes that you're now
forced to pull out. Current IMAGES at each site can be as important as the
hardware--can you use the idle DS3 (at nite) to secure a remote backup (can
fit your window)?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Falkenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Architecture question
User servers to remain here in house. There is no way in hell am I moving
the user servers to collocation when the LUSERS love to send HUGE excel
files to each other constantly. IMC/OWA server at collocation to have at
least one machine with a copy of the current directory up and running till
we could restore the user servers.
What impact would having the OWA server/IMC at the other end of that 43MB
connection? Yes its slower but the OWA users are on that connection inbound
already. That would just move one of the hops from in front of the server
to behind it. But will the OWA connect reliably over that DS3 connection to
the user servers from the collocation?
Thanks for the input guys... I am getting closer to that pros and cons
worksheet I need to turn into the boss.
There would be a bdc, tape unit and other backup servers at the collocation.
The boss wants to get any of our infrastructure that makes sense into the
collocation.
Bob F.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dillon, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:41 PM
To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues'
Cc: Bob Falkenberg
Subject: RE: Architecture question
Assuming you're on a 100Mbps LAN, are you users going to be happy with
45Mbps (best case--are you tiered or burstable?) access to their mailboxes?
More important--where in this scheme are the tape units located?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Falkenberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: February 21, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Architecture question
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> Currently I have 4 Exchange 5.5 SP4 servers running on NT4.0 here in
> my server room. 3 user servers and 1 server hosting the IMC and OWA.
> As part of the disaster recovery plan and because of other reliability
> issues the head of my group wants us to move a BDC to a remote
> collocation. At the same time they are asking me what servers if any
> from the Exchange site we could move to the co-location. They have a
> DS3 in place for connectivity to
> the co-location.
>
> I don't think I want to move the user servers but can anyone give
> reasons not to move the IMC/OWA server to the co-location?
>
> Bob Falkenberg
>
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