Anyone using Exchange 2007 in production?
Discussion
At present we do fall into the "beefy server with a few hundred mailboxes" category, and that server is up for replacement at the end of the year which means I need to start thinking and planning.
We currently have a SAN and a couple of clustered ESX boxes, redundant switches etc. although that's new so things like the Exchange system are still on physical hardware.
For mobile access we're already making use of OWA and of course RPC over HTTPS.
The thing that strikes me is that the license costs alone for 400 or so Exchange 2007 CALs could buy quite a lot of hardware to make a more redundant 2003 based setup.
In short as with IT departments everywhere I'm being squeezed and I'll need a bloody good justification to move to 2007 from 2003.
We currently have a SAN and a couple of clustered ESX boxes, redundant switches etc. although that's new so things like the Exchange system are still on physical hardware.
For mobile access we're already making use of OWA and of course RPC over HTTPS.
The thing that strikes me is that the license costs alone for 400 or so Exchange 2007 CALs could buy quite a lot of hardware to make a more redundant 2003 based setup.
In short as with IT departments everywhere I'm being squeezed and I'll need a bloody good justification to move to 2007 from 2003.
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