If you are using Microsoft's hosting solution (HMC), then even the simplest hosting scenario is a complex environment; it will be both scaled out and up and HA.
________________________________________ From: Jason Gurtz [jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmon Available for Exchange 2007 How about running hosting scenarios (even simple ones)? ~JasonG > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 16:22 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Exmon Available for Exchange 2007 > > Single server installations are simple to run. It's when you start > scaling Exchange upwards and adding high-availability options that it > becomes complex. > > Add to that the necessity of separation of privilege in larger > organizations and the assignation of per-OU and per-server privileges for > recipients and exchange operational management - it starts to get tough > and you (the generic "you") are doing things every day. > > ________________________________________ > From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:12 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Exmon Available for Exchange 2007 > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Campbell, Rob > <rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net> wrote: > > I’d be tempted to resort to “the original point and click interface”. > > That's "point and *shoot*". :) > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael B. Smith > <mich...@owa.smithcons.com> wrote: > > Evan Dodds ... "we learned that running Exchange was really hard". > > It's funny, thinking about it, *running* Exchange is actually not > that time consuming for me, knock on wood. It's *getting* to that > point which took so much work. Installation and configuration is a > dirty combination of the actual product docs, hard-to-find MSFT white > papers and KB articles, third-party books, and random bits of arcane > knowledge gleaned from blogs, web sites, and lists like this one. > > Sometimes I wonder why we call IT a "profession". It's more like > alchemy at times. > > -- Ben > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
