Hi all,
Greetings from New Zealand and Happy New Year.
I would like to implement an Exchange 2007 Server but would like to find out if it is possible in my current situation.
Background
My company has about 160 email users and 12 sites nationwide and operates in a WAN environment. All Servers are located in our head office in Wellington and all traffic to the WWW is also passed through our proxy in Wellington (primative? Yes)
Each site has a direct 2mbps pipe to the head office.
We are currently using POP3 and running Mailmarshal. Administration is a nightmare, wrongly configured settings by an untrained staff may also be a cause.
we are also slowly migrating all our Phone systems to Cisco VoIP.
I want to install one and only one Exchange Server in the Wellington Head Office.
I have been told that this is impossible in a WAN environment and that we will require one in each site which would not be cost efficient.
I don’t understand how a consultant can come to that conslusion.
Obviously in a WAN environment, access to files will be slower and more bandwidth would be used.
Please help me clarify if what I’m doing is possible and help me identify some of my major downfalls of just implementating 1(one) Exchange 2007 Server Enterprise Edition?
Greatly appreciated
Sam
