I agree, it can become a maintenance nightmare. It is not so much installing it and getting it up and running but moving to new revisions of windows and exchange, We got rid of all of our hosted services and put them on O365, Best decision we made. Not to mention the licensing is not cheap either, once you add in the cost of Windows and Exchange and CALs, Spam software... Don't forget backups..
Erich Kaiser On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Ryan Ray <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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=65098793854 >> 2&_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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