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Conference chefs::ms-exchange

Title:	Microsoft Exchange Server
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Moderator:	FLASK2::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 17 1995
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Number of topics:	1099
Total number of notes:	5174

1042.0. "Info on Digital's NT rollout?" by WOTVAX::lzodhcp-182-48-148.lzo.dec.com::hiltong (hiltong@mail.dec.com) Tue Apr 29 1997 21:46

Are there any whitepapers which give an overview of how/why Digital 
has rolled out NT, what we use for system mgmnt, backup, the domain 
model we chose etc etc?

This is to discuss with a customer.

Thanks,

Greg

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1042.1	gpsnote1	PARZVL::KENNEDY	nuncam non paratus	`Wed Apr 30 1997 01:02`	11
	Greg, Most of the NT Program docs are at \\gpsnote1\gpswinnt They're (Digital Internal) public. You should probably contact the authors before using in a customer presentation. I'm sure some of your questions are answered there, though perhaps not the big one (why NT?).
1042.2	Am I missing something?	IOSG::PYE	Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice	`Wed Apr 30 1997 12:06`	4
	<<<< I'm sure some of your questions are answered there, though perhaps <<<< not the big one (why NT?). Er, surely it's because that's the best (only) thing to run Exchange?
1042.3	The NT decision came before Exchange	tunsrv2-tunnel.imc.das.dec.com::foster	Stan Foster - foster@mail.dec.com	`Thu May 01 1997 06:02`	17
	We dont use NT because Exchange needs it. Its more the other way around. We use Exchange because it was the best (best integrated, most complete, most scalable etc) groupware product available on NT when we started this project two years ago (and arguably the best still today). The NT infrastructure is three times the size of the Exchange deployment and is used for Authentication, WINS/DHCP, File, Print, RAS, Web and database applications as well as groupware. The Digital NT domain supports 50,000+ users using the two-tiered multi-master domain model (the only model that can scale to this size) and we currently have 42,000 Exchange users in the "production" network with probably another 1000+ in various sattelite networks that may or may not be integrated at some point in the future. Thats why MaryEllen says the bigger question is why NT and the NT based distributed run-time environment, not why Exchange.