It's what we do in the school to maintain and improve our technology. We rebuild, recreate and improve on what we had, deploy new hardware/software, improve infrastructure.
Instead of tacking things on down the road-during the year, we rebuild -incorporating all of those things during the summer. We repurpose servers. What once was high volume, no longer needs the super server. What once was a physical server, is now a virtual server. Unlike corporate world, we attempt to leave our stuff untouched during the school year. For the summer break, we get to start fresh when downtime is near irrelevant. Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrade to 2010 first? My suggestion would be to not rebuild the domain. What are the reasons behind this? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Shields, Anthony <ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org<mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org>> wrote: Nearly every summer we rebuild our domain from scratch, including Exchange. This year, we will be upgrading several things including Win2k8 R2 and E2k10 server. Typically when we do this, we exmerge the existing store - in this case a E2k7 - to PST files, which are then exmerged into the new store. We currently have many users with mailboxes near or over 2gigs. I have had issues previously trying to import large PST files and am hoping to avoid them if possible. I believe E2k10 has brought back the ease of export/import PST files and was wondering if it would make sense to upgrade the E2k7 server to 2010 and then export the PST files - Wipe the equipment clean and reinstall 2010, importing those PST files? Any thoughts or suggestions? Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 ________________________________ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
