exchange 2007 SCR licensing and public folders database questions   

requirement is to move an exchange 2000 standalone server to an exchange 2007 
server on new hardware with offsite replication via SCR.

Questions:

in this configuration (active server replicating to offsite server via SCR), 
I am assuming I will still need 2 copies of exchange 2007 std. is this 
correct?

the current exchange 2000 server has 1 12GB mailbox store and 1 10 GB public 
folder store. will SCR be supported for this configuration?

the current server has 25 CALs. I assume we will still only need 25 CALs 
under the new configuration since only one active server is being accessed. 
is this correct?

if we decide to use the offsite server (call this server B) as an active 
exchange server, can the local exchange server (server A) replicate to server 
B via SCR and server B replicate to server A via SCR?

since this is a new installation, we have our choice of operating systems. 
which operating system is best for an exchange 2007 standard installation?

thanks for helping clarify these issues.
-- 
Curt Helland
Chief Technology Officer
iCue Corp.
www.isendit.com

date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:50:01 -0700   author:   chelland

Re: exchange 2007 SCR licensing and public folders database questions   

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:50:01 -0700, chelland
 wrote:

>requirement is to move an exchange 2000 standalone server to an exchange 2007 
>server on new hardware with offsite replication via SCR.
>
>Questions:
>
>in this configuration (active server replicating to offsite server via SCR), 
>I am assuming I will still need 2 copies of exchange 2007 std. is this 
>correct?

You shouldn't ask licensing questions here but this one will be a yes
everywhere.
>
>the current exchange 2000 server has 1 12GB mailbox store and 1 10 GB public 
>folder store. will SCR be supported for this configuration?

What do you mean supported? You're talking about 2000. You don't SCR a
PF anyway and one mailbox store of 12GB? Yes, SCR will cope with that.

>
>the current server has 25 CALs. I assume we will still only need 25 CALs 
>under the new configuration since only one active server is being accessed. 
>is this correct?
>
Go and ask an approved vendor (again, almost certainly a yes, but you
have to ask someone who can give you legally binding advice)

>if we decide to use the offsite server (call this server B) as an active 
>exchange server, can the local exchange server (server A) replicate to server 
>B via SCR and server B replicate to server A via SCR?

Both can be SCR targets and sources. Obviously different storage
groups, you can't SCR it from A to B and then back to somewhere else
on A (odd and impossible)

>
>since this is a new installation, we have our choice of operating systems. 
>which operating system is best for an exchange 2007 standard installation?

What are you comfortable with? If you have no exposure to 2008 yet
then you have to do it on 2003 and just suck it up when 2003 goes out
of support. If you are ready for 2008 then do it on that and you can
have five years of no upgrades - short of the inevitable and truly
enormous service packs that they shift with depressing regularity.

>
>thanks for helping clarify these issues.

date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:53:06 -0400   author:   Mark Arnold [MVP]