Best disk / mail setup for this solution?

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In the process of setting up a SBS 2003 server for the office, mainly to have Exchange ( we are 6 users)

Currently we have a Proliant DL380 G3 with 2 x 36.4 GB Ultra3 SCSI drives.

Will be adding another 4 of these drives for some more storage space.

Currently with the 2 they only show up as one drive 36.4 Gb in total - why is this?

Also is POP3 connector the best way to get our e-mails onto Exchange or is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks in advance, I'm new to this !
 
HP will automatically configure the disks in RAID 1 if there are two identical drives.

So you do have two drives but in RAID 1 - when you are loading there is an option to go into the RAID controller (F8?) so do this and then you can see the drives and change the arrays.

Alternatively when you load Smart Start you can do it then.



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Yep, one disk can die and it'll continue running.

Regarding exchange, it all depends on your connection. If the office connection is decent and reliable i've setup sbs2003 were the mails go straight to exchange, in other situation were the connection was iffy i've used the pop3 connector.
 
If you have pop3 setup already, it's very easy to setup in exchange. Stick all the username and passwords into the connector, set it to download every 15 mins and put the relevant pop3 email addresses into each person in active directory
 
Great - will be patient and wait for my other drices to turn up so I can redirect My Documents/Desktop etc. for everyone.

Shame that Vista Home doesn't work with SBS 2k3 :(
 
make sure your other two disk are using raid1 and not raid 0, but sounds like a good plan to stick all your important data in raid 5
 
as long as youre not on dial up and have a static external IP you should be able to get your ISP to route all of your mail to your exchange server. easy peasy.
 
neil_g said:
as long as youre not on dial up and have a static external IP you should be able to get your ISP to route all of your mail to your exchange server. easy peasy.
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How would we go about getting this done for the e-mail going to our domain?

We don't have a static IP here- can we use something like DynDNS?

What DNS settings would I need to change (if we can use DynDNS that is)
 
have you already installed sbs onto the server? i always prefer to have two seperate arrays for sbs, install the first disk (basic server 2003) onto the first array (something like a raid1), and then continue the install shifting everything else to be installed over to the other array (something like raid5). this just helps to separate duties between different sets of disk i/o as there is quite a bit going on with sbs.

edit: last server i put in, a few months back, was a poweredge 2900 iii - ran that with 15k sas drives, a pair of 72gigs in raid1 for the basic os install, and then quad 72gigs in raid5 for everything else that needed to be installed (incl sql on top of everything) and for all their data too. works a treat.
 
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OoOverclockaoO said:
Without joining domain is there still a way of sharing printers, fax services etc?
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Kinda - if you create a user account on the domain, then setup a matching account name and password on the machine, then it will authenticate to the domain as that user. It's not as seamless as being on the domain but does work.
 
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