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Beyond the actual “guts” of a server, you should consider the environ-
mental aspects that will trigger your options. Blade server computing can be
a strategy for decreasing cost of operation: it is much faster (and requires
fewer skills) to replace a blade server than a high-density server; it may,
however, impact your server deployment standards. Think about it when
considering the operating model of your environment.
4.3 Networking services
Networking services are of course critical for proper operations of Exchange
200x deployments, including the largest ones. From my deployment experi-
ences, Exchange 2003 relies on the ...