Make a Exchange mail server

[stlcardinals]

To deploy a proper exchange environment with redundancy you are going to need
2 to 3 Domain Controllers
2 Exchange Front end servers
A Load balancer in front of the front end servers
Some sort of SPAM Filter
2 Backends in a DAG
Backup Power
External IP Address and a server running MS Forefront TMG and UAG for protection
Exchange based antivirus software
UCC Cert
Backup solution either by having another backend server with a LAG copy or an Enterprise backup suite like CommVault to backup the databases

Of course you can skip all this headache and just go with Office365 and not have to worry about all of the above.

 

[Ketchup]

Of course you can skip all this headache and just go with Office365 and not have to worry about all of the above.

I was surprised at just how good Office 365 is when we switched last year. We have over 100 people here (not including remote offices) and only had 1 issue since then. Response time in the office, at home, and on my phone is very good.

 

[riahc3]

I'm curious - are you doing this because you've been ordered to do it? Or because you feel it's the best way to go?

From earlier posts it feels like the latter but the quoted post is the former...

Ordered. At the moment I was ordered, it sounds like a good idea. Thanks to you guys, I rethought about it and brought up some points to my superior attentions but they still want to go ahead and deploy it.