Thursday, November 29, 2007

Microsoft's Exchange group has a odd view of scale

If you look at Microsoft’s install documentation for Exchange 2007, they seem to have an odd sense of scale.
Planning for a Standard Exchange Organization
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124367.aspx
…Other distinguishing characteristics of the standard Exchange organization include:
  • The Service Delivery Location (SDL) and Client Service Location (CSL) reside on the same local area network (LAN).
  • There are more than 1,000 mailboxes in the organization.
  • There are fewer than five routing groups, and between one and five Active Directory directory service sites. Multiple locations and Active Directory sites introduce the multi-site routing protocol and role discovery algorithms, as well as a requirement to use IP site links.

Standard = 1000+ Mailboxes? I don’t think I have a single STANDARD installation, then…

This also explains the lack of support and tools for smaller companies.

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