Exchange Standard and Enterprise question

[Joshua1]

1. Can you have an Exch Standard and Exch Enterprise enviroment?
2. How is the upgrade from Exch standard to Enterprise?

3. What is the difference between Exch Standard and Enterprise for 5.5 and E2K?

 

[Gafer]

Joshua1,

1. Both Exchange standard and enterprise can co-exist within both the Exchange site and organization as much as you might like.

2. It depends. For something like a bridgehead server that doesn't have any mailboxes on it you should be able to just install over the top to upgrade. With mailboxes on the server you would want to make sure you have good backup's etc.

3. The enterprise edition contains all of the connectors that you might want to use i.e. X.400 and there is no restriction (other than disk space) on the size of the information stores whereas the standard edition has a 16GB limit. There are a ton of differences, too many to list here between Ex 5.5 and E2K, chiefly that E2K uses Active Directory and other "exciting" things.

Graham

 

[Joshua1]

On question #3
What differerences are their between E2K standard and E2K Enterprise besides the 16 gig limit?

 

[Joshua1]

Also can I migrate from Exch 5.5 standard to E2K Enterprise
edition?

 

[Gafer]

#3 Support for clustering, multiple databases on the same server, chat services etc.

Migration from Exch 5.5 to E2K is normally done by having E2K on a seperate server and using the AD connector but you can do a "single server" upgrade (if you are brave). Take a look at

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/interop/55.asp

for more info.

 

[Joshua1]

So if I want to cluster two exchange 2000 servers what version would I use Standard, enterprise, or either?

 

[Gafer]

Enterprise

 

[Joshua1]

Can I use Exchange2000 standard just for the smtp connector
and use two exch2000 enterprise servers for the active cluster?

 

[Gafer]

You can mix and match as much as you like and put connectors, mailboxes etc on either version but if you want Exchange cluster support then you need the Enterprise version.

 

[Joshua1]

The reason why I ask these questions the company I work for purchased Standard before I got here, now that we want to cluster exch 2000 we purchased enterprise edition they just wanted to know if we can still use and not waste the standard edition. So I figure I can use standard for an smtp server and use enterprise for the cluster.

 

[Gafer]

Sounds a reasonable plan to me and I don't see any reason why it should not work.

 

[Joshua1]

Thanks for your help..

 

[Joshua1]

Sorry to bother you again in the same site standard and enterprise can co-exist and do you know of any documentation
or case study that I can show to my group?

 

[Gafer]

Standard and enterprise can co-exist is the same site. I do not have any docs or a case study, you might want to try in the Exchange 2000 forum to if someone there can help.