If a company already uses the Exchange Hosted Services Filtering service is there any additional benefit to be gained by deploying Edge Transport servers when they will not be required for Virus and Spam checking?
Generally not... unless you need to do stuff like attachment filtering, address rewriting, or Edge transport rules (though most of the latter are available to Hub Transport servers as well). -- Bharat Suneja MVP - Exchange www.zenprise.com NEW blog location: exchangepedia.com/blog ---------------------------- "Simon Geary" wrote in message news:DC9363AC-5EE1-4378-B84A-13D4516F22CF@microsoft.com... > If a company already uses the Exchange Hosted Services Filtering service > is there any additional benefit to be gained by deploying Edge Transport > servers when they will not be required for Virus and Spam checking?