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Exchange 2010 Topology Best Practice

Scenario:

Currently we have 4 different sites with around 200 employees at each site. All our servers and Internet is hosted at a Data Center. We are planning on upgrading our DC's and Exchange servers at our Data Center and could use a little guidance on what the best practice would be. If someone could give us a few scenarios on what the best practice would be we would really appreciate it.

We will be installing 2 new DC’s and 2 or 3 new mail servers.

How many servers for exchange 2 or 3?
What roles to assign each server?
We want to use DAG.
Will a barracuda for spam be recommended or should we do Microsoft forefront protection?

abhijitmdp

Better you plan all your deployment using Microsoft Deployment Assistance, can follow below link for referance.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff709381.aspx

Using barracuda will be a good option for all your flows but you can also go for Microsoft forefront protection.

dufff

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thanks for the link. I guess what I am really looking for is a response from someone that has already completed an upgrade similar to my scenario. what servers they used and topology. Before we do the deployment we want to make sure we have the best equipment and layout. We are at the stage of picking equipment and best practice as a whole.

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dufff

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thanks