My opinions to your questions.
1. For now that should get you by. The best thing to do is set it all up and
do some performance monitoring on it for a week or two. Get your average
load and go from there.
2. Don't really understand what your saying here. However you don't have to
use Outlook to connect to exchange. Any email client capable of using LDAP
can connect an exchange server.
3. Same as #2
Hardware setup is crucial and must be well thought out before you put the
system into production. I would listen to the advice another poster gave
about using 2 raid arrays.
I have the exact same setup ( system - Raid 1, data - Raid 5). Do you self a
favor and buy an extra drive for the data array and set it up as a hot
spare, drives are cheap.
Also, how did you decide to upgrade to XP? Unless your a beta tester how did
you evaluate the OS. Make sure you really understand XP and what
advantages/disadvantages (regworm) come with it before making a finial
decision.
Matt Wehnes
System Administrator
Morton Machining & MFG
(309) 266-6551 x12
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Mediger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2000
We are looking at implementing Exchange 2000 and I have a few questions, and
wanted advice from people who have had real world experience. We are
currently
running NT 4.0 Svr and Wkstn. I have setup a Windows 2000 Domain (still in
testing phase). We have about 100 users.
My Questions:
1. I have a PII with 2 300mhz processors and 384mb ram. Will this be ample
enough to handle Exchange 2000 and future growth? How much Hard Drive space
would you recomend?
2. We plan on Going from NT 4.0 to Windows XP. Can we connect to Exchange
2000
with the NT 4.0 Clients during the interim? Any issues I should be aware of?
Any
issues with WXP?
3. We have 50-60 users on Outlook 2002 with internet access etc., and 40-50
users on other clients (internal e-mail and intranet only). Does Exchange
play
well with other e-mail clients?
4. Any other Gottcha's, Do's, Don'ts? All advice will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
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