Just wondering, which server hardware do you guys use for Exchange Servers - we use Dell, curious to know what you are using - John Adams

Dell, IBM and HP all have good enterprise class hardware. The following link has some good info on64-bit and the underlying hardware requirements. http://www.microsoft.com/servers/64bit/overview.mspx Tony www.activedir.org

I using servers Dell edge 2850/2950 for Front and Back-end exchange, also 860 and 1950 as Back-end serverfor small size domains. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2950?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_860?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_1950?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd Before purchasing, you need to know how many users you will have to use the server and what services will be deployed on the server. This link to Server Consolidation Recommendations from Microsoft http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998499.aspx PS Please forgive me for my English

We are deploying on HP & IBM hardware (blades, towers & racks) for our clients - both platforms are reliable & stable with the customer preference leaned towards HP side, mind you mine too - the HP servers are IMHO far more user friendly than both Dell & IBM although they are all equal products when it comes to doing the job. In fact from previous experience I seem to prefer dell for reliability even though when they do fail they can normally cause more headache than the others to bring back up. (rebuilding RAID on a Dell IS rocket science, well almost,where with HP, I'm sure my little niece in grade1 can do it. lol)