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2000 employee new company architecture help

Hi,

2000 employee new company architecture help
I have a friend who wanted my help accessing what kind of hardware would these services need for a 2000 member company. can you experts help me with some details on how many servers each service needs and configuration.

List of servers/services
File Server
Print Server
Exchange 2007/2010 Server
Active Directory
DHCP
Antivirus server
Bright Mail
Proxy/ISA Server
Blackberry
Backup
DLO
SCCM
SCOM
OCS
patch updates/WSUS

regards
Raja

David_Hagerman

1 X Exchange 2007/2010 Server
1 X Active Directory; DHCP ;
1 X File Server, Print Server( will couple as you Backup DC)
1 X Antivirus server, Bright Mail; Backup
1 X Proxy/ISA Server
1 X Blackberry

I am not sure what these are but presumably they can go on the same machine
DLO
SCCM
SCOM

bsharath

ASKER

thanks would i server do for exchange 2007?
Also whats the configuration suggested

David_Hagerman

All the questions depend on what sort of budget you have? i would run one exchange server on full redundant server and you shouldn't have any issues.

What information are you looking for with regards to configuration?

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David_Hagerman

here is some doco that might answer your questions

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125169%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx

bsharath

ASKER

Thank you all

matt how r u doing. Long time :-)

This is a very old company which have 50,000+ people already and this is for a new site in a different citi. It will start with 2000 employees and grow to 25,000 in next 5 years. Investment is not a matter for them.

My friend has the above services in his hand to decide on whats needed for all those specially. Just the ones mentioned in the Question is what he wanted to be assessed.

the rest i guess other teams will take care.

Can you please suggest according to my above info

Toxacon

I say that you will end up in huge problems if you believe lists like "1 x Domain Controller" and putting an extra DC role to your file/print server on a 2000 user environment. Please, think of availability of services and impact to your business if one component fails. Such things do not come with short advisories on a website.

If money is not a problem, do hire a experienced local IT consultant to do the design for you. (I'm not saying that I can't do the design but it will take enormous amount of work and it's beyond the scope of this site as well.)

Keith Alabaster

No offence - but tell your friend that you value the friendship - and that he should therefore approach a consultant. The above responses regarding the first response you got have been polite in their wording and make it fairly obvious that without knowing the business requirements any 'list' of equipment is pointless.

A new company of 2000 employees..... this is sounding almost like a home work question. Whether it is or not though it is rhetorical as there is no right answer without requirements.

Keith