Management wants Fast and Well done at this point. -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:41 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Contracting ADS/E2K Transition
As others have intimated, it is not an easy assessment through a forum like this. As Ed stopped short of saying, perhaps a call to Compaq might be in order. Do they do estimates? I will almost always favour the patient, methodical, testing and retesting, documenting mode. I would deploy a two-step strategy there. The AD deployment first. Connecting Exchange5.5 using ADC. Then plan E2K. But that's me. There's that axiom about: Cheap, Fast, Well done: You get to choose two. William -----Original Message----- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Contracting ADS/E2K Transition William, We are looking at roughly 100 total servers in the domain. Right now in our current NT 4.0 domain, we have our server room with the majority of our servers, about a dozen servers 45 miles away, connected by a fiber backbone. Approximately a dozen T-1's terminate in our server room for various locations on this site and we have (I believe) 3 microwave connections coming off of the end of the backbone, 45 miles away. All connections between servers is either fiber or 100 mbps switched. Couple of Linux print servers with a dozen people on them, sitting at the end of a couple of T-1's. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Contracting ADS/E2K Transition Still depends. Number of users? Number of servers? Locations (different cities?)? Connectivity between servers? Etc... I think it is a two step process. AD, then E2K. AD should have a disaster recovery plan in place and tested before the next step. William -----Original Message----- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:00 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Slightly OT: Contracting ADS/E2K Transition Folks, Let's ask a couple of questions, based on the premise of "Money isn't an option": 1. What's the absolute fastest amount of time that it would take to plan an AD/E2K structure? 2. How long would it take to implement an AD/E2K structure? 3. What kind of hardware do we need to have in place before we do this? 4. How many personnel will it take? 5. Roughly what can we expect the cost to be? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
