nostros damos
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Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:05 am Post subject:
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Hi,
I'm setting up an Exchange 2003 environment.
It is likely that due to various constraints that in my multi-physical site setup, I will only be able to have a single Backend
server.
So, one office will get fast access to mailboxes and the other will get slow access. (always on but only a 1MBit/s link)
I am concerned about the performance of their Outlook 2003 clients.
Now, if I deploy the mailboxes with Cached-mode, will this work for the users who have 1 or 2 GB of mail!?
Also, what happens when people share PC's? Will this still work?
What about mailbox security as it will be stored on the local disk?
I am concerned about complications such as these.
rgds,
Nick.
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Al Mulnick
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Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:05 am Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 Cached mode with slow link and large mailb |
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The data would be accessible off-line, so if you're concerned about people
having access to the OST for hacking, you would want to ensure they use AD
accounts for logon. You may want to enable some sort of encryption locally
as well, but that's totally up to your security policy.
Will it work for 1-2GB mailboxes? Define work and I can answer that better.
After about a 1.5 GB file it could get to be a performance problem,
especially if they choose to change a view or something. The initial
download and synch would take a while as well. You may want to keep those
mailboxes smaller via PST's etc, but again, define work and I can answer
better.
Remember that cached mode is about the user experience. Once sync'd,
they'll feel like they're getting better performance because they'll work
with the local copy and sync changes to the server. They'll still need to
pull the large files and you'll still want to prevent spam from reaching the
mailbox.
Also, a 1Mb network connection might be fine if you're talking 10 users with
plenty of available bandwidth and small message sizes. It might be
different with 1000 users, no available bandwidth to speak of, and large
binary messages traversing the link.
Al
"nostros damos" <nick@eoeooo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
I'm setting up an Exchange 2003 environment.
It is likely that due to various constraints that in my multi-physical
site setup, I will only be able to have a single Backend
server.
So, one office will get fast access to mailboxes and the other will get
slow access. (always on but only a 1MBit/s link)
I am concerned about the performance of their Outlook 2003 clients.
Now, if I deploy the mailboxes with Cached-mode, will this work for the
users who have 1 or 2 GB of mail!?
Also, what happens when people share PC's? Will this still work?
What about mailbox security as it will be stored on the local disk?
I am concerned about complications such as these.
rgds,
Nick.
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nostros damos
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Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:10 am Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 Cached mode with slow link and large mailb |
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Al,
thanks for the reply. Extremely useful answers.
OK, sorry yes the OST accounts will be securely withheld as different users log in via their AD account.
We have about 300 users. About 100 have 400MB mailboxes and approx 10 have 1-2GB. These are Notes database sizes. I don't know what
the Exchange mailbox or OST sizes would be. I've read OST files can be twice as big an the Exchange mailbox size. I think we'll have
to encourage the users to archive some emails.
Basically, I have the option of a single Exchange 2003 mail server or multiple (per site). Each site will require a cluster and
redundant storage which means a distributed architecture will be much more expensive! If Exchange Cached-mode was perfect, we could
implement a centralised topology and sit pretty.
NB I have approx 300 users split between the 1MBit connection, but internal and external email averages to only about 300MBytes per
day - bandwidth hardly ever maxed out.
NB2 Additionally, I hope we'll move into the 21st century and upgrade the 1MBit connection, too!
Before I say single server, cached mode is the way to go, also we will have a good amount of Public Folders! Can I setup a public
folder server near the users - I doubt it unless the user's mailbox is on that server, too ? Actually, if I setup a Public folder
server, I may aswell put the mailboxes on it anyway.
Thanks again!
rgds,
Nick
"Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@ncDOTrr.com> wrote in message news:eoKct%237vEHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | The data would be accessible off-line, so if you're concerned about people
having access to the OST for hacking, you would want to ensure they use AD
accounts for logon. You may want to enable some sort of encryption locally
as well, but that's totally up to your security policy.
Will it work for 1-2GB mailboxes? Define work and I can answer that better.
After about a 1.5 GB file it could get to be a performance problem,
especially if they choose to change a view or something. The initial
download and synch would take a while as well. You may want to keep those
mailboxes smaller via PST's etc, but again, define work and I can answer
better.
Remember that cached mode is about the user experience. Once sync'd,
they'll feel like they're getting better performance because they'll work
with the local copy and sync changes to the server. They'll still need to
pull the large files and you'll still want to prevent spam from reaching the
mailbox.
Also, a 1Mb network connection might be fine if you're talking 10 users with
plenty of available bandwidth and small message sizes. It might be
different with 1000 users, no available bandwidth to speak of, and large
binary messages traversing the link.
Al
"nostros damos" <nick@eoeooo.com> wrote in message
news:41856201$0$43585$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
Hi,
I'm setting up an Exchange 2003 environment.
It is likely that due to various constraints that in my multi-physical
site setup, I will only be able to have a single Backend
server.
So, one office will get fast access to mailboxes and the other will get
slow access. (always on but only a 1MBit/s link)
I am concerned about the performance of their Outlook 2003 clients.
Now, if I deploy the mailboxes with Cached-mode, will this work for the
users who have 1 or 2 GB of mail!?
Also, what happens when people share PC's? Will this still work?
What about mailbox security as it will be stored on the local disk?
I am concerned about complications such as these.
rgds,
Nick.
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