RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-13 Thread Ken Cornetet
You do not need a FE/BE setup. Any decently modern hardware will barely notice 100 users. Besides, a FE/BE setup doesn't really reduce the CPU load on the mailbox server unless you are doing SSL. Also, to do FE/BE you need the enterprise version of exchange (at least for Exchange 2000 - not sure

RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-13 Thread Neil Hobson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Posted At: 13 January 2004 13:33 Posted To: Swynk Exchange (30 days) Conversation: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003 Subject: RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end

RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
There used to be a FE/BE document on http://www.microsoft.com/ISN I don't know if it is still there. Based on my own experience at the previous place, we ran two OWA/SMTP FEs configured with MS Windows Load Balancing. Each machine had 512MB RAM, dual 800MHz CPUs, and one 18GB RAID1 volume (I

RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
, January 12, 2004 5:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003 There used to be a FE/BE document on http://www.microsoft.com/ISN I don't know if it is still there. Based on my own experience at the previous place, we ran two OWA