A primer on server roles and Exchange hardware

You probably wish that your Exchange servers were running on 32 processor machines with huge RAID 10 arrays. But your budget is likely a limiting factor when shopping for server hardware. You can still have a well-performing Exchange organization in spite of your budget constraints, though. The trick is to know what type of har

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dware to buy, based on a server's role within your organization.

This guide provides a primer on the various types of server roles that can exist within an Exchange organization and how they affect hardware requirements.

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