Hi, we currently planing a new exchange 2003 installation for our company. I am not sure which of the 2 paths would be best for us. The situation : 3 Offices worldwide with approx 20 clients in one location and 10 in the 2 others with a potential groth of 100% per year. The sites will be linked with VPN. All users use mobile services like OWA and travel a lot. 1. Scenario : Each site gets its own exchange server installed. Mails get received in 1 location and the routed to destination exchange server. Each site sends mail through local connection. 2. Scenario : One central exchange server with VPN access and mobile access to this central echange server. Which scenario would make most sense ? Also in terms of growth and bandwidth capacity and availability. Thanks a lot, Oli
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:06:59 -0800, Oli wrote: >Hi, >we currently planing a new exchange 2003 installation for our company. >I am not sure which of the 2 paths would be best for us. >The situation : >3 Offices worldwide with approx 20 clients in one location and 10 in the 2 >others with a potential groth of 100% per year. >The sites will be linked with VPN. >All users use mobile services like OWA and travel a lot. >1. Scenario : Each site gets its own exchange server installed. Mails get >received in 1 location and the routed to destination exchange server. >Each site sends mail through local connection. >2. Scenario : One central exchange server with VPN access and mobile access >to this central echange server. > >Which scenario would make most sense ? Also in terms of growth and bandwidth >capacity and availability. > >Thanks a lot, > >Oli On plain numbers the Outlook Web Access and RPC over HTTPS from all sites into a single server makes most sense. I wouldn't envisage a single situation where I would deploy multiple Exchange servers in locations with that few users in, regardless of any bandwidth issues you might have.
"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:06:59 -0800, Oli > wrote: > > >Hi, > >we currently planing a new exchange 2003 installation for our company. > >I am not sure which of the 2 paths would be best for us. > >The situation : > >3 Offices worldwide with approx 20 clients in one location and 10 in the 2 > >others with a potential groth of 100% per year. > >The sites will be linked with VPN. > >All users use mobile services like OWA and travel a lot. > >1. Scenario : Each site gets its own exchange server installed. Mails get > >received in 1 location and the routed to destination exchange server. > >Each site sends mail through local connection. > >2. Scenario : One central exchange server with VPN access and mobile access > >to this central echange server. > > > >Which scenario would make most sense ? Also in terms of growth and bandwidth > >capacity and availability. > > > >Thanks a lot, > > > >Oli > > On plain numbers the Outlook Web Access and RPC over HTTPS from all > sites into a single server makes most sense. I wouldn't envisage a > single situation where I would deploy multiple Exchange servers in > locations with that few users in, regardless of any bandwidth issues > you might have. > Hi Mark, Thanks a lot for your answer ! Oli
