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Exchange Design and Architecture with 2 servers - 28.Sep.2007 12:51:06 PM

ashish326

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Hi all,

We are going to be deploying Exchange 2007 in our Exchange 2003 organization soon. We are going to be deploying Exchange 2007 using only 2 servers. The specs of the 2 servers are identical as follows: Dual/Quad core processors, whatever the latest speed is with 4 gigs of ram.

Our current environment has 250-300 users of which 100 percent of the users are laptop users and all of which have Outlook 2007 and outlook anywhere configured. We currently have 1 FE 2003 server for OWA and Outlook Anywhere and 1 mailbox server. All users use Outlook anywhere all day and night. We have alot of remote users, on the road, etc.

What is the recommend/best practice for deployment or are there pros and cons for the following deployment?

First Scenario: Server 1 - CAS and Server 2 - Hub Transport and Mailbox

Second Scenario: Server 1 - CAS and Hub Transport and Server 2 - Mailbox

I believe everyone will have their opinions, but support of you opinion or MS docuements with recommendations would be great.

Thanks in Advance,

< Message edited by ashish326 -- 1.Oct.2007 11:28:03 AM >