Enterprise or Standard?

[polymath5]

Hi all,

We are thinking about going with Exchange as there are add-ons that only exist for Exchange that management wants.

My question is which do we need Ent or Std. Currently we have 22GB of PST for our 70 users. I see in MS specs that Std has a max DB size of 16GB. Am I looking at the right number to base my needs on? This number is only their live mailbox.pst files, it doesn't count archive.pst files. (of which there are quite a few)

Thanks!

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[AJ1982]

Exch Std will only support storage groups of 16Gb, you can go two std servers or an entterprise, depending on how it works money wise

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[xmsre]

The storage methods used by a pst are fairly ineffiecient, and you'll see some shrinkage as you import the mail into exchange. Even with that, you'll be pushing the limit of standard as it appears you have no limits in your environment. You'd be better off with enterprise from the get go.

 

[polymath5]

Thank you both!

No limits is right. E&O issues and the fact that I can barely get management to go with archiving off their mailboxes make it look like Enterprise is going to be it.

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[ntinlin]

Enterprise is about $4000, standard is about $1000 excluding CAL costs.

Depends on power of your server but you might want to have two standard servers rather than one enterprise. You'd also have to take server O/S license into account of course.

 

[polymath5]

We've decided to go with Enterprise (assuming we do move to Exchange). Thanks to all for their suggestions!

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