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 hardware 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.

A PRIMER ON SERVER ROLES AND EXCHANGE HARDWARE

 Home: Introduction
 Part 1: Microsoft's hardware recommendations
 Part 2: Server roles
 Part 3: Mail servers
 Part 4: Public folder servers
 Part 5: Bridgehead servers
 Part 6: Gateway servers
 Part 7: Front-end servers
 Part 8: Conclusion
 Part 9: Related links

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Brien M. Posey, MCSE Brien is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his work with Windows 2000 Server and IIS. He has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and was once in charge of IT security for Fort Knox. As a freelance technical writer, he has written for Microsoft, TechTarget, CNET, ZDNet, MSD2D, Relevant Technologies and other technology companies. Copyright 2005 TechTarget

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