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Exchange Server Implementation

Hi,

We are about to embark on setting up an Exchange Server company-wide, & I have no experience whatsoever with Exchange, so I am looking for some advice.

At the moment all of our mail comes from 1&1 Hosting which is fed through End Users Outlook 2003/2007/2010 clients & all PST files are local to their respective PCs/laptops.

The Exchange Server will not be linked to Active Directory at the moment but it will in the future.

I believe this will be a major job as we have about 450 staff & all of their PST files will have to be transferred to the Exchange Server once it is up & running. Is there any automation software which can make this part easier?

Any pointers for an Exchange newbie would be fantastic!
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I agree with Simon.  That's very sound advice!  The PST import is the least of your worries in this situation.  And it'll save you a lot of headaches to get the Exchange system up and running in the correct manner using a knowledgeable resource.  After the system is up, then you can worry about importing PSTs from the old system.
Hello, once your Exchange server is setup, you may still continue to keep all the messaging data in the end users’ Outlook client as PSTs as you do now. Downside is that it will be quite an inefficient practice from storage perspective as single instance storage architecture of Exchange will not work in that case.
Single instance storage wouldn't apply in this case for two reasons:

1. You don't get SIS with a PST import.
2. There is no SIS in Exchange 2010.

Simon.