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by amy.macgregor

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Hi there, For the last 2-3 years i have been pulling my hair out at my current place of employment as they have rolled out over 300 terminals but would not allow a domain for all the upfront costs. they had trouble justifying the expense, as they never had terminals before, operating manually didnt cost them all that much money was their argument. So now im in a situation where i have 300 terminals on a bl00dy workgroup, yes very painfull and a lot of the terminals are running XP home edition *grins due to pain* Now i have bitten the bullet and basically put my foot down, i have to write a proposal to introduce exchange, so we can at least have exchange and as terminals are upgraded i will roll them over to a domain.

i require some help writing this proposal as im not experienced in Exchange at all. Im very experienced in send mail and outlook integration (not much to do there) but we have been operating like that for the last few years. So i can administrate it fine.

Where would i start?
Has anyone already done a similar proposal?

does anyone have any good docos on step by step exchange rollout? or how to use it? maybe exchange for dummies? :P i really appreciate your help!

thanks

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by doug.vanderhoof

You deserve a medal! 300 on a workgroup, indeed!

I plan to roll out Exchange at my location within the next year as well and my "research" has led me to the MS website for a number of docs on implementing and best practices. Not to say that the MS way is the best way, but it's probably a good starting point.

As for your employer, you might try demonstrating what their true "cost" is in keeping you occupied with maintaining the security database on 300 systems versus controlling it through Active Directory. You could be doing much more productive things with your time.

by amy.macgregor

I totally agree, i have so many things that i want to do, we have rolled out an optic network and our own copper for them to sit on a workgroup it really upsets me, they dont see what the point is, as they were operating manually for the last 45 years the rollout has taken almost 2 yrs on top of the 45. So they are old school very much so, and the company accountant "overseas" IT as they do. He doesnt know how to build a pc, or forward attachments as it is let alone anything else.

ill give the msdn site a look :)

any other info will be welcomed.

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