RE: NT / Exchange on a budget

[David James]

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I'd use the 133 for a PDC and do all file sharing with it.  Perhaps they could spring for anther 20 or 30 GB ide drive for it.  On the Exchange box, I agree with Martin, that make it a BDC with Exchange, and keep the core Exchange and NT files on a C: partition of 4 GB or so, and then all the IS and DS on the larger drive.  In your situation, a strong backup plan is most important however.    DJ -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: NT / Exchange on a budget Do you have the budget to get one more hard drive?  If so, I would do that and have 2 sets of mirrored drives on the new server.  I don't think anyone here wants to quote MS Licensing policies, however, I do know that most of us here also turn off the license logging service.  As long as you have the paper to back up licenses, you are good.  You may want to check with your local MS rep and get his take.  But, regarding the servers, I would say that for that small a shop, the PDC will run just fine on a P133.  We used to have several BDC's with those specs until a little while ago.  But you definitely need to get Exchange off it and onto the other server.  You are bleeding the poor thing to death!   Ben Winzenz, MCSE Network/Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc.   -----Original Message----- From: Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: NT / Exchange on a budget   Having had a complete budget lockdown, (worldwide recession etc etc ) I am trying to sort out how to get my NT/Exchange setup more secure and up to date..   The server (ahem!) is currently a P133 with 256K and 1 x 9GB IDE drive.   It acts as the PDC  / File Server / Print Server and Exchange Server + AV although we're not connected permanently to our ISP and dial up once an hour...   <Stops for a while to pick William off the floor he's just fallen onto laughing/crying>   Anyway I've got the limited funds via the repairs and maintenance and have a new server with :   1GHz Athlon 1GB RAM 1 x 37.5 GB drive 2 x 37.5 GB hardware mirrored drives   Backup to tape being sourced this week.   I could make up another server of similar specs if necessary   As I am aware from reading through the archives that it's not good to have a PDC / Exchange server and to split it to two servers is best.   The only problem I can see is that I have CAL licenses for 25 users, and have 20 actual users...   I would assume that I can't run two machines on the 25 licenses as I'd need 40 CAL's (is this right?) so would need to keep it all on one machine.   The freeze in spending also means that I cant update the Exchange which is at 5.0 c/w Antigen (got that expenditure approved when the CEO got a macro virus!)   Apart from running like hell, which I don't want to do as I like the Company and the people and want to stay till the good times come back round, can I have any suggestions to get a safe system...   PS I'm thinking of using just the 2 x 37.5 as a mirrored disk and leave the remaining 37.5 as a backup to swap?     List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm