What would be the recommended setup for a new Exchange 2010 Deployment. AD infrastructure is already present and accounted for. We have approx. 2500 mailboxes that need to be supported. Central administration. Fault tolerant. Offsite access. OWA and Outlook. What would be the hardware requirements (number of servers) and what would be the best setup for those servers.

That's a consulting engagement question, a question that requires and even deserves the thoughtful analysis of a consultant who can ask you lots of questions about your environment. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "prytzen" wrote in message news:17d2e5f6-efc4-4e47-8429-5c4a57c5c788... What would be the recommended setup for a new Exchange 2010 Deployment. AD infrastructure is already present and accounted for. We have approx. 2500 mailboxes that need to be supported. Central administration. Fault tolerant. Offsite access. OWA and Outlook. What would be the hardware requirements (number of servers) and what would be the best setup for those servers.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Hi, I would like suggest you use our deployment assistant and have a look at TechNet library articles, it can cover most of your questions: Exchange 2010 deployment assistant http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home Getting Started With Exchange 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124265.aspx For customization and optimization of Exchange 2010, as Ed mentioned, it will engage lots of questions. I would suggest you contact our consulting service: http://www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices/en/us/home.aspx Thanks, Elvis

Hi, I would like suggest you use our deployment assistant and have a look at TechNet library articles, it can cover most of your questions: Exchange 2010 deployment assistant http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home Getting Started With Exchange 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124265.aspx For customization and optimization of Exchange 2010, as Ed mentioned, it will engage lots of questions. I would suggest you contact our consulting service: http://www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices/en/us/home.aspx Thanks, Elvis

That's a consulting engagement question, a question that requires and even deserves the thoughtful analysis of a consultant who can ask you lots of questions about your environment. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "prytzen" wrote in message news:17d2e5f6-efc4-4e47-8429-5c4a57c5c788... What would be the recommended setup for a new Exchange 2010 Deployment. AD infrastructure is already present and accounted for. We have approx. 2500 mailboxes that need to be supported. Central administration. Fault tolerant. Offsite access. OWA and Outlook. What would be the hardware requirements (number of servers) and what would be the best setup for those servers. Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." What Ed said. If you're asking these questions and planning to do this yourself, you're doing your employer/customer a disservice. Post a targetted question on any of the forums here and I and many others here will provide you with good information, but, you're asking for way more than any of us can fit in a couple paragraphs.Active Directory, 4th Edition - www.briandesmond.com/ad4/