Bad, bad, bad idea. To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, "do you feel lucky, well do you." There can be some serious repercussions with this one. You have 10,000 users on an Exchange servers in multiple sites and now he's suggesting that your mail server function as an application server, hosting multiple apps. What about performance, what about backups? You will need to run an Exchange backup and a standard file backup. You might need two versions of a virus software, one for your files and one for Exchange specifically. Oh this is the domain controller.
Don't forget the application that needs to be rebooted once its installed and knocks off 10,000 users or even an application that overwrites certain dlls and Exchange no longer loads. These apps gonna' share the same drive with the priv and pub? I could go on, but you recall Renfields laugh when he was on the brink of madness, "he, he, he he". Sorry, I got carried way. Dot -----Original Message----- From: Miller, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:39 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: A bit off topic - Multiple apps on 1 server All, Excuse me for the slightly off-topic inquiry. We are currently rolling out Exchange 2000 - we have about 10,000 users in several locations - 150-300 users per office on average. We run the Exchange 2000 servers also as Domain Controllers, with the addition of DNS and DHCP. Everything works just fine, but now the CTO wants to start doing an "Office in a Box" concept - where we load tons of additional apps on this server. Sort of like Small Business Server - but with additional licenses (more than 50), and not all the apps are Microsoft. I thought we were being a bit risky having Exchange on the same server as a DC, DNS, and DHCP. Does anyone have any advice on this? Bad idea? Terrible idea? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
