365 gets really expensive really quick.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Ray" <ryan...@gmail.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 10:28:48 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Exchange Domain Controller expert wanted I've built out 30k mailbox exchange implementations and honestly, unless you have someone to keep up on the patches / maintenance it's probably easier and cheaper to just use office 365. To do exchange properly, you're going to need a spam appliance of some sort, a couple load balancing appliances (f5). You don't really move your virtual machine DC or Exchange VM's. You have DAG groups with copies of your mailbox databases on multiple servers with cheap spinning storage. You should never snapshot an exchange machine, or a DC. Fill out your requirements on here https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2013-Server-Role-f8a61780 and see what comes up. Of course you can also do exchange improperly / non high available, one server, one proxy server, if you lose it though, your email stops. So this really comes down to how resilient you would like your email to be. On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Paul McCall < pa...@pdmnet.net > wrote: We are looking to subcontract a new build of Exchange / Domain Controller. Our thoughts are to buy a used box like this... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Build-Your-Own-Dell-Precision-T7500-12-Core-3-06GHz-X5675-No-OS-Wholesale/382099411087?hash=item58f6e6508f%3Am%3AmoWAAapWvQJ0VWFy5npBnFQ&var=650987938542&_sop=15&_sacat=0&_nkw=dell+precision+t7500+%2212-core%22&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_TitleDesc=0%7C0 with 48GB. They charge a whopping $ 60 to put in dual TB SATA drives and establish the mirror (RAID 1) for you, so figured we might as well. Although, in reality, I like the idea of an SSD drive for speed purposes, but have not used them in a RAID 1 config. Not sure if this box would support that. Thinking of redundancy, we have a couple ProxMox boxes (pretty loaded but could be used in a pinch to move the DC / Exchange VM over to it (IF we do a VM). So, might be good to do this box as a ProxMox VM also. So, looking for someone who can put this software install together for us for a reasonable price. If you know somebody... Paul, PDMNet -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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