Less than 30 users? 2 GB of RAM with 30 GB HD and SQL Express would be overkill!
-- Jonathan Evenden IT Consultant MCSA:M+ - Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Messaging Specialist TNTMAX, LLC. Technology Solutions by Design 010101000100111001010100011011010110000101111000 (800) 774-4359 Toll Free (201) 891-8686 Main (201) 891-4672 Fax [email protected] 253 Madison Ave, Wyckoff, NJ 07481 http://www.tntmax.com <http://www.tntmax.com/> __________________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in this transmission is confidential and may be privileged and/or contain confidential information that is legally protected by state and federal law. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or organization to whom it is addressed. If it is not meant for you please notify the sender immediately by telephone so arrangements may be made to return the documents or destroy them. Use, disclosure, distribution or copying of documents transmitted to you in error is strictly prohibited. Thank you. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Branson Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 5:08 PM To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] International BES achitecture HA is not a requirement, as we do not have that now. The WAN links are broadband but very saturated with other traffic. We only have a handful of BES users in each of the other offices. Less than 30 overall. A low powered VM running SQL express would work fine. I am just looking to provide a better experience for our International users. Chris Branson | Systems Administrator | Joyce Meyer Ministries P 636.349.0303 x2627 www.joycemeyer.org <http://www.joycemeyer.org/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Evenden Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:25 PM To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] International BES achitecture Hi Chris, There is not a simple answer to your question. I have multiple BES servers running against a single Exchange server in one environment. I also have a single BES server running against multiple Exchange servers in another (separate countries even!). If you do setup a local BES server, you will need to move the existing users to the new BES server, of course. Server requirements depend on how many users you have. I have VMs with 1 CPU and 1 GB of RAM working just fine for the 15 users on the system. I have another VM with 2 CPUs and 4 GB of RAM for a different amount of users. How fast are your links between the sites? Do you need anything special like HA? In short, the more details you are willing to provide, the more help we can provide! -- Jonathan Evenden IT Consultant MCSA:M+ - Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Messaging Specialist TNTMAX, LLC. Technology Solutions by Design 010101000100111001010100011011010110000101111000 (800) 774-4359 Toll Free (201) 891-8686 Main (201) 891-4672 Fax [email protected] 253 Madison Ave, Wyckoff, NJ 07481 http://www.tntmax.com <http://www.tntmax.com/> __________________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in this transmission is confidential and may be privileged and/or contain confidential information that is legally protected by state and federal law. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or organization to whom it is addressed. If it is not meant for you please notify the sender immediately by telephone so arrangements may be made to return the documents or destroy them. Use, disclosure, distribution or copying of documents transmitted to you in error is strictly prohibited. Thank you. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Branson Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bes-admins] International BES achitecture Does anyone have any tips for implementing a second BES server in another Country? Currently we have Blackberry Users in US, UK, Australia and South Africa. User's Exchange mailbox server is in their local datacenter, but our only BES is in the US. As you can imagine, this creates frequent sync issues between the BES and remote mailbox servers. And International activations can be finicky. All offices use the same email domain, with MX records pointing to US Exchange edge servers. I am also interested in what the minimum local Exchange 2007 roles (same Exchange Org, Windows and email domain) would be to support a local BES server. Thanks! Chris Branson | Systems Administrator | Joyce Meyer Ministries P 636.349.0303 x2627
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