I know this sounds like a obvious question, but it’s for an individual I know who works at a not-for-profit. She wants to use a Windows 2003 server to host the organizations’ email via Exchange and to store the organization’s user data files as well.
I’ve advised her strongly that is very dangerous to store any kind of corporate – organizational data/user files on any server with direct access to the internet and irrespective of the server’s operating system.
However, she is skeptical as she considers it a waste of hardware resources to have a single program running on one server.
If my fellow computer experts could offer their opinions, I would appreciate it. No troll/zealot replies please. I know the various OS zealots would want her to use something else than W2K3/Exchange. That is not the issue. The issue is solely the danger of storing organizational data files on an Exchange (or any kind of internet access) server.