OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

[Stephen]

I know the 2 bugaboos for excahnge in requirements is Disk IO for
large companies, (not as much an issue in a small sub 1000 users
company) and ram. exchange up to 2003 is a 4gb of ram beastie.

im not sure about the mailbox recovery, but i know it can run on ESXi
vm as long as you have 2 cores and 4gb of ram to give it. we are
getting ready to convert ours to a Virtual machine ill let ppl know
the results if they want.

Also excahgne 2007  is fully 64 bit and VM supported as well. we are
hoping to deploy that and migrate soon

but for mailbox recovery im not sure what has changed but i know alot
has. but it is better than it has been in the past (comparing 5.5 to
2k3 personally)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I haven't used the latest exchange and it's been a while, so maybe you
> can tell me if they worked around the issues I had with it.
>
> It requires it's own server. On a single core server, it bogged the system
> down so much, we couldn't run other apps. (granted it's probably best to do
> that, but when you don't have the budget for it, you have to do)
>
> There's no way to look at the raw email message on the server. Or go through
> all the mail boxes.
>
> Recovery requires a second machine. From what I remember it was convoluted,
> but you need a second box.
>
>
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