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mbressman · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

Hi,

I was hoping I might be able to get a few questions I have answered here.

I am relatively new with Exchange, but am now in charge of managing it for a 20-person company. We are running Exchange Server 2003 Standard SP2. Here are my questions:

1) I am pretty sure Exchange 2003 came with an Outlook 2003 CD. Does anyone know more about this? We are currently running Outlook 2000 on our workstations, so how would using the copy of Outlook 2003 that came with Exchange 2003 work? Does Exchange 2003 require each workstation connection to have a license (if so, then I guess we're good there since we have all workstations connecting with no problem)? Could we upgrade each workstation to the included Outlook 2003 copy, or are there only so many copies of the included Outlook 2003 that we are allowed to install? What about the product key that it says is required on the Outlook 20003 CD that came with Exchange 2003? Can someone direct me to a site that might provide some more information about licensing and CAL's, especially as they related to Exchange (and maybe to Windows Server 2003 as well)?
2) I'm not sure if our current set up is optimal or not, but we have Exchange 2003 installed on our Primary Domain Controller, and have certain ports opened in our firewall to allow incoming/outgoing email traffic, OWA access, etc. Is this a good set up? With Exchange 2003 Standard, can we set up a second Exchange server on our network to server as a backup in case something happens to the primary one? If so, how would we set it up with the firewall, with replication, etc. so that it would automatically fail-over to the backup Exchang server if the primary one went down?
3) Can someone provide some best practice information for mailbox size limits, other limits we can impose with Exchange, Exchange database size limits, maintenance of the Exchange server, etc.? Also, what is the best policy for dealing with users with lots of email when we implement mailbox size limits? Do we tell them to archive their old email into PST files? What about going forward? Auto-archiving into PST files? Is there a better solution? If not, what about PST file corruption? Can we have them place their PST files on the server so at least they are getting backed up nightly, or is there peformance issues here?

I apologize for the multitude of questions, and any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks again

Marc

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