Determining Hardware and Software Components

Justifying hardware and software purchases is often a difficult task for organizations of any size. It is therefore important to balance the need for performance and redundancy with the available funds available in the budget, and thus deploy the optimal Exchange server hardware and software configuration.

Server Number and Placement

Exchange scales very well to a large number of mailboxes on a single machine, depending on the hardware chosen for the Exchange server. Exchange Server 2003 also does not require dedicated systems for connectors, as did some previous versions. Subsequently, Exchange Server 2003 is optimal for organizations that want to limit the amount of servers that are deployed and ...

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