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Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0
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Asha'man X
Expert Member
You can't "get it" per se. That level is achieved after applying Service Pack 2 to the installation. Also, Exchange 2003 is becoming a bit hard to find these days, it will be 6 years old next year.
bekdik
Honorary Master
You can purchase it from any Microsoft reseller. If you call MS they will point you.
bekdik
Honorary Master
Just give them a call on the contact number on the microsoft.co.za web site
bekdik
Honorary Master
Just be warned SBS 2008 requires a 64Bit system. Mosy new servers will cater for this, but check your hardware compatibility first.
And make sure you allocate at least 60GB for the main partition when installing. You will also require 4gb of ram
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
And go have a shufty at the most excellent www.msexchange.org web site for a TON of useful advice!
If I may make a suggestion - set up two Exchange servers - one your normal, everyday Exchange server, and the other as a virtualized server, which you can feel free to experiment with
If I may make a suggestion - set up two Exchange servers - one your normal, everyday Exchange server, and the other as a virtualized server, which you can feel free to experiment with
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
A-yup.
And, a word of advice in advance - set up mailbox user limits as the users will be storing their useful mail on the server and clog the server up needlessly.
Hmmm. I don't agree with mailbox limits. After all, where else *should* store their useful mail? Putting hard limits in place forces users to delete email (problematic from an auditing point of view), or store them in PSTs on local hard drives or on servers (where the mail becomes lost to the company, causes server performance issues, and is often not backed up).
Valid points but luckily the mail store size limit increased from 75gb to 250gb in exchange 2007 sp1, which should be fine for 70 users.
This is an issue with SBS 2003 though and it is a good idea to set limits. You can ask the users to archive their mail and store it on the server in their "home" drive but this sometimes causes problems with Outlook.Limits rock!
Not recommended by MS. The problem is that every time a message goes into the PST file, the PST file needs to increase in size, so the file system locks while it does that. While that's not a problem with arbitrary files on a file server, once you have a few dozen people on a file server, the constant file system locks become an issue; I've seen file servers lock up for a couple of minutes at a time, and that hangs the client PCs while they wait for their changes. Very unpleasant in a big network. Took us months to figure out exactly what was going on.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Interesting - this might be the issue we're having at work... and no, I didn't set the Exchange server up, but I think a lot of people's using PST's in their home directories... thanks for the headsup!
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Problem is if the server's a bit on the old side with 100Gb HDD space... then you'll need to enforce mailbox size limits to prevent the Exchange Information Store to grow beyond a set limit. Not all companies have the cash to upgrade or buy new servers, keep that in mind. With that being said, maybe the Drobo can help out with extra hard disk space?
Problem is if the server's a bit on the old side with 100Gb HDD space... then you'll need to enforce mailbox size limits to prevent the Exchange Information Store to grow beyond a set limit. Not all companies have the cash to upgrade or buy new servers, keep that in mind. With that being said, maybe the Drobo can help out with extra hard disk space?
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Interesting - this might be the issue we're having at work... and no, I didn't set the Exchange server up, but I think a lot of people's using PST's in their home directories... thanks for the headsup!
It's particularly bad if people have delivery set to PST - because then a message to everyone causes *all* of the PSTs to expand at the same time. Nasty.
Juggy
Executive Member
There is a reg hack to resolve it.
As for pst files, i reckon all work related information should be saved in the users mailbox in the information store so it's available through web access. What use is all the info if you can't access it from anywhere. Other than that you can use an exchange archive solution like EAS that leaves a message stub in your Inbox which when clicked retrieves the message from a SAN/NAS or such type of storage.