[H-GEN] Exchange Woes
Adrian Sutton
adrian at intencha.com
Mon Apr 19 19:32:11 EDT 2004
Hi all,
Yesterday we discovered our primary domain controller and exchange
server had a hard drive crash. This is the second time it's crashed in
the past year, last time it took a week to recover and it's looking bad
for this time as well, despite having some very knowledgeable Windows
server admins set up the backup system.
Basically, we need a more robust system in the face of catastrophic
disaster - particularly something that isn't tightly coupled with
Active Directory. All we really use Active Directory for is to run
exchange which is only used for:
a) email. Nothing fancy - about 15 users and 9GB of email data.
b) Storing email in public folders.
c) pretty basic calendar functions. Reminders that pop up on screen
and grab your attention are a must here.
We don't use roaming profiles and can do without the central login
pretty easily. We have a mix of windows, solaris and Mac clients
though accessing email and calendar is exclusively done from Windows
atm.
We have a Sun e250 server sitting around doing pretty much nothing that
could be used or a linux or windows server could be set up. There is
no knowledge in the company of server administration at all but a
particular fear of UNIX systems.
Since there's a whole bunch of very talented sys admins around here
that mostly don't use exchange - what systems could we put in place?
Muchos bonus points if it's free - even more if you can come up with a
way to convince people that we can maintain it easily (there's no
sysadmin in this company, just a bunch of programmers).
Thanks,
Adrian Sutton.
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