Thought out loud

We have gotten the task to set up a new communication and collaboration infrastructure for our department to work with both external partners, contractors and customers.

The old environment consists of an Exchange 2003 Server with OWA enabled, a Windows Sharepoint Services server 2.0 and a SQL 2005 server as back-end. All three Servers run on separate virtual systems hosted on two ESX 2.5 servers (1 for SQL and 1 for Exchange and Share Point).

Access control is realised through Active Directory where the Server hosting Exchange is also Domain controller.

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Today we look at the hardware that we will need for the new infrastructure. Let us look at the requirements:

• Mail communication with Web-Access
• Collaboration through Share Point
• Expandability for future Applications (Time-Reporting is a hot topic)
• SQL-Server supporting both Share Point and other web-applications
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