it pretty much runs itself. Besides adding new users, which is mostly taken
care of when you add the users to AD; and creating DL's, there really is not
much of a maintenance issue or workload with an Exchange box.
A.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:03 PM, JPDS Tech <techpurchases@jpds.org> wrote:
> We are a small school, with under 100 email accounts. We are considering a
> shift from POP3 to Exchange 2007 but I am concerned about adding a great
> deal of administrative overhead. The proposed new set-up would be Exchange
> 2007 running on (VMWare-virtualized) Server 2008; we would continue to use
> Postini to reduce our spam load. We're hoping to achieve universal access
> for staff and shared calendars and distribution lists. I also hope that
> the
> SIS described in the thread below will reduce our storage requirements.
>
> I'm aware that Google Apps and Microsoft Live offer these things but I'm
> specifically asking about Exchange 2007. One techie tells me that 2007 is
> so stable that there is little maintenance work. Would I be taking on a
> nightmare of administrative tasks? I am a one-person tech office.
>
> With trepidation,
>
> Dan Berger
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators
> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of TJ Rainsford
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:01 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Public Folders Exchange 2003 and iPhones
>
> Renee:
>
> If only it were that simple :-)
>
> In order to reclaim disk space and white space when users clean up email,
> you actually have to run a offline defrag of the Information Store in
> Exchange. This is actually something that should be done on a regular
> basis
> as part of maintenance (the interval is dependent on the how big your
> information stores are). It is a pretty straight forward task but must
> necessarily be done after hours as it will take down any users who are part
> of the specific information store as long as the process is running.
>
> Running regular offline defrags is a really good idea. Not only will it
> clean up disk space, it will compress the information stores (and defrag
> them) which will improve overall performance and keep the system happy.
>
> Please note that this is NOT a disk defrag! In fact, running a disk
> defragmentation process on the disk where your Exchange data resides is a
> fundamentally BAD idea (things will likely go BOOM in a really bad way).
> And as with all major maintenance, make DARN sure you have a backup of
> EVERYTHING (the OS, server system state, Exchange databases, etc) before
> doing this.
>
> TJ
>
> TJ Rainsford
> E: tjrainsford@gmail.com
>
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