Greetings, I have read the thread and agree with the comments - just putting my two cents in per what I did at my site. NOTE: I am only commenting on EXCHANGE 2010 installations - as we are now moving direct to O365 so don't have experience with ON PREMISE 2013. (as an aside - as of last Friday - my email is now coming from my migrated O365 mailbox - but that is another subject and learning curve)
I am a former Groupwise admin and had to learn EXCHANGE 2010 in June 2010 very quickly as we migrated. Against common recommendations at that time to install two CAS and two mailbox servers, I elected to go with two robust HP G7 boxes, and install all the roles on each server with a two node DAG - because I like KISS. We have 1500 mailboxes. Important is I also installed two HW load balancers for failover redundancy. As Adam noted, this has made patching and troubleshooting much easier IMHO and still working great to this day. No downtime during patching, and we do all this once a month late Friday afternoon in one hour - without having to work late or come in Sunday. Again, just noting what has worked at my site. Good luck. Thank you Dana From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Cookman Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 9:26 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [Exchange] Cas and Mailbox on the same server. I was talking to a friend who had been advised from Microsoft to put CAS and Mailbox role on the same 2013 server that is in a DAG with about 1000 mailboxes, interesting to hear if anyone else has gone this way or your thoughts? Regards, Paul. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Selection Services Ltd using the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. ______________________________________________________________________
