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jon_ak
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 Posted - 02/24/2012 : 01:42:23 AM
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These items relate to Exchange 2010 w/Outlook 2010 clients.
Is there a setting so that when a user sends email from a mail-enabled public folder, the message originator will reflect the public folder's email address? In three of the departments where I work there are a few people in each department that will be sharing a particular folder. i.e. Accounting, Estimating, Warehouse etc. I'm still in the evaluation/lab mode but I have noticed that the users private in-house email address is what is stamped as the originator of the email message. My goal is to have the message originator line/reply-to in the email header reflect the specific department it came from. I was able to specify a reply-to for the email messages but that was only a message by message solution.
Next question: Is there a way to enable a new mail alert for the public folder like happens to a user's inbox?
Is my understanding correct that Exchange will support JBOD if connected directly to the server machine it is running on? I have an external enclosure with (10) 3tb Seagate XT enterprise Sata drives that connects directly to the machine the Exchange server will be running on.
As for Exchange hardware requirements, our organization has a dozen employees that use email somewhat frequently during the day at the office and another dozen or so that will only have access using the web client. We don't have the thousands of dollars to outfit a server that I've read is recommended, multi-cpu type system board that supports more than 32gb of memory. What is your opinion when running Exchange on a system board that has a single I7 grade CPU with 32gb of memory max? This is a separate machine from the existing 2K8R2 DC.
Sorry for the long windedness...
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Jazzy
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Posted - 02/24/2012 : 02:33:41 AM
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Originally posted by jon_ak
These items relate to Exchange 2010 w/Outlook 2010 clients.
Is there a setting so that when a user sends email from a mail-enabled public folder, the message originator will reflect the public folder's email address? In three of the departments where I work there are a few people in each department that will be sharing a particular folder. i.e. Accounting, Estimating, Warehouse etc. I'm still in the evaluation/lab mode but I have noticed that the users private in-house email address is what is stamped as the originator of the email message. My goal is to have the message originator line/reply-to in the email header reflect the specific department it came from. I was able to specify a reply-to for the email messages but that was only a message by message solution.
Next question: Is there a way to enable a new mail alert for the public folder like happens to a user's inbox?
There are 3rd party tools available for both questions. I can't recommend anything because I never used them butboth questions are quite common, maybe you can Google them.
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Is my understanding correct that Exchange will support JBOD if connected directly to the server machine it is running on? I have an external enclosure with (10) 3tb Seagate XT enterprise Sata drives that connects directly to the machine the Exchange server will be running on.
It does support them but if this is your only server with that data this is not recommended. If one disk fails you loose al your data.
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As for Exchange hardware requirements, our organization has a dozen employees that use email somewhat frequently during the day at the office and another dozen or so that will only have access using the web client. We don't have the thousands of dollars to outfit a server that I've read is recommended, multi-cpu type system board that supports more than 32gb of memory. What is your opinion when running Exchange on a system board that has a single I7 grade CPU with 32gb of memory max?
Exchange sizing is based on requirements, if your requirements are low than why should you buy a very large and expensive server? Because I don't know your requirements I can't answer the question.
If you need advise for sizing, please give the following information at least:
- what server roles?
- amount of users/mailboxes
- usage profile
- which clients (OL, OWA, etc.)
- Mailbox size limit
- expected concurrency level
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jon_ak
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Posted - 02/24/2012 : 11:11:04 PM
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The plan is for a single server to handle all the roles - mailbox, client access & hub transport. Currently there will be 12 internal mailboxes (personal) plus configuring public folders to be mail enabled for departmental email from outside, both of which will use Outlook when in the office and OWA when not. There will be an additional 12 - 18 remote users that will be being sent meeting schedules and have a calendar accessible via activesync on their phones. As for usage I believe a total of 50 email messages incoming and maybe 25 - 30 outgoing each
day total. As for size limits, maybe 500mb each mailbox. As for concurrency, guess I need to look up that one |
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Jazzy
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Posted - 02/25/2012 : 05:01:12 AM
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Okay, that's great info. Never mind concurrency, when sizing for large numbers you want to know how many users are connected at the same time. With those small numbers this doesn't matter. I think that when you take Microsofts minimal recommendations you have a pretty good starting point.
CPU: 4 core (single quad core cpu or two dual core cpus)
Memory: 8 GB
Storage: 30 mailboxes x 500 MB x 2 (overhead + headroom) = 60 GB
In your case 2 cpu cores would be sufficient too. Now please explain where you read this: :)
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As for Exchange hardware requirements, our organization has a dozen employees that use email somewhat frequently during the day at the office and another dozen or so that will only have access using the web client. We don't have the thousands of dollars to outfit a server that I've read is recommended, multi-cpu type system board that supports more than 32gb of memory.
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jon_ak
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Posted - 02/26/2012 : 10:54:38 AM
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| Thanks for the input, it's been a big help. I guess I misinterpreted the MS guide for sizing servers concerning CPU cores. It just seemed that each server role was requiring 4 cores and left me buying a high end xeon system board. I like the idea of a single 4 core I7 much better and I'm sure my boss will also. |
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