I guess the question about is it worth the money was more hypothetical. I've since gotten an updated price of $370, which IS worth it to me.
As far as hardware goes, I'm looking for a general "should be okay", or "not a good idea". My PRIV is 6GB, PUB 30MB. About 450 mailboxes. On average, 50 clients connected at a time, with a maximum of 250 (that's how many PCs we have). No idea what the mail volume is. I'm ashamed to say I'm not sure how to track it. We would be running E2K3 SE with McAfee GroupShield on Win2k3 Standard Server. Hardware is P3600, 784MB of RAM, hardware RAID, 18GB RAID1 OS/Pagefile/Apps, 33GB RAID1 Data/Logs. I can go dual proc if it will help. Thoughts, ideas? Steven --- Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Administrator The Key School, Annapolis Maryland -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: E2K Forest/Domain-prep on Win2003 Domain? The hardware requirements for E2K3 vs E2K are generally equivalent, whether that hardware is sufficient for you org is not really something I can say with any degree of certainty. It meets the minimum hardware requirements I believe. Whether or not it is worth $1000 for you is not really a question I can answer. It is for customers who hire me to do the work, since I performed my last E2K migration the weekend after TechEd and haven't looked back since. > From: "Dickenson, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 13:03:45 -0400 > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: E2K Forest/Domain-prep on Win2003 Domain? > > I have considered that, however we have Exchange 2000 EE free as part of an > upgrade advantage purchased with Exchange 5.5 EE. Upgrading to E2K3 EE > would cost me upwards of $1000. Is it worth it? In addition, I will be > doing the install on a P3600 with 512MB of RAM and 3 18GB RAID1 arrays. Can > the hardware cope well? > > PS - What the he11 does IMNSHO mean? > > Steven > --- > Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Network Administrator > The Key School, Annapolis Maryland > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:58 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: E2K Forest/Domain-prep on Win2003 Domain? > > > IMNSHO upgrading to W2K at this point is a waste of time. If you're going to > upgrade, upgrade to E2K3. It greatly simplifies the upgrade process from > Exchange 5.5 and offers a number of significant enhancement which make it a > much more compelling upgrade story than E2K. > >> From: "Dickenson, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:29:31 -0400 >> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: E2K Forest/Domain-prep on Win2003 Domain? >> >> Hi guys, >> I'm getting ready to add a Windows 2003 DC to my Win2k AD network, >> which will eventually be an all Win2k3 AD domain. However, I'm also >> planning an Exchange 2000 upgrade in a matter of weeks. My question is, >> will I be able to run Forestprep and Domainprep against the Win2k3 AD? Or >> should I do this before adding the Win2k3 AD DC? NOTE: I will not be >> installing Exchange 2000 on a Win2003 box (for obvious reasons). > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 =e > nglish > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
