Expert Advise Required on Exhange Server Location

[Kris]

Hi Exchange Server Gurus & MVPs,

I would like to know expert suggestion regarding having the Company
Exchange Server with in the company premisis or out side companies premises
(ie., May be third party solution at an ISP.The nearest ISP is @ Min 100 Kms
away from the (company). Is it best to be inside the company.what are the
advantages and disadvantages.The Solution of Exchange server serves for 2000
+ employees.

I appriciate if you give best openion with some documentations or
presentation or links that would support the above openion or suggestion.

Thanking you in advance

[James Whelan [MSFT]]

Hi Kris,

This is not going to be straightforward to answer!! So ok, you can have
your server outside your company premises, but you need to consider how
Exchange will talk to AD? What size is the link between your users and your
server? What about redundancy? How far away will the Exchange server be
from your users?

I highly recommend that you read the following:

Planning an Exchange Server 2003 Messaging System
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/messsyst.mspx

I hope this helps you!
--
James Whelan

Rapid Response Engineer - Messaging
Premier Field Engineering
Microsoft United Kingdom

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Post by Kris
Hi Exchange Server Gurus & MVPs,
I would like to know expert suggestion regarding having the Company
Exchange Server with in the company premisis or out side companies premises
away from the (company). Is it best to be inside the company.what are the
advantages and disadvantages.The Solution of Exchange server serves for 2000
+ employees.
I appriciate if you give best openion with some documentations or
presentation or links that would support the above openion or suggestion.
Thanking you in advance

[Harry]

better if internal bcoz of following reasons
1. by having external, u are putting great traffic on ur wan link which may
affect ur internet speed.

2. if ur AD is managed by u it will take great time for authentication.
first ur machines will send request to exchange then it will ask u for
credentials and after that it will again come to ur AD to get them
authenticated.

3. moreover internal exchange servers will be more secure

4. the most important is the quick repair of xchange if it gets down and i
think you will be able to troubleshoot it faster and better inside ur campus

Harjeet

Post by James Whelan [MSFT]
Hi Kris,
This is not going to be straightforward to answer!! So ok, you can have
your server outside your company premises, but you need to consider how
Exchange will talk to AD? What size is the link between your users and
your server? What about redundancy? How far away will the Exchange
server be from your users?
Planning an Exchange Server 2003 Messaging System
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/messsyst.mspx
I hope this helps you!
--
James Whelan
Rapid Response Engineer - Messaging
Premier Field Engineering
Microsoft United Kingdom
Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for
newsgroup purposes only.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Post by Kris
Hi Exchange Server Gurus & MVPs,
I would like to know expert suggestion regarding having the Company
Exchange Server with in the company premisis or out side companies premises
away from the (company). Is it best to be inside the company.what are the
advantages and disadvantages.The Solution of Exchange server serves for 2000
+ employees.
I appriciate if you give best openion with some documentations or
presentation or links that would support the above openion or suggestion.
Thanking you in advance