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The_Boulon's avatar
The_Boulon
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8 years ago

EV 12 Infra review

Hi Ladies and Gents!     I am currently migrating AD domain to include them in forest where EV is already present. Now, I need to install additionnals EV servers (yes yes, more than one) for DE, ...
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VirgilDobos's avatar
VirgilDobos
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Hi there,

Yes this is possible, just be aware of the following:

1. You will have to publish these new EV servers externally and specify them in the relevant Desktop policies for Outlook Anywhere access. Also, use them for the relevant sites' office mail app configuration. Note this will not necessarily improve performance unless you move some of the users to these new servers but you said that you do not plan to be configuring any vault stores on them.

2. For the indexing servers, ideally, you should group them by location and use them accordingly.

Let me know if you have questions.

The_Boulon's avatar
The_Boulon
Level 5
8 years ago

Hello Virgil,

Many thanks for your answer and yes, you confirm what I thought.

 

1. It's pretty simple by that customer: everybody got the same policy, no exception (COO,CEO, whatever the title is)! And no external access to your mail (need to first VPN to the HQ). Vault Stores will be on each archiving server.

 

2. All will be in Belgium as this is the HQ for Europe (and trust me, the WAN lines are pretty good)!

 

Thanks for all!

 

Olivier

  • VirgilDobos's avatar
    VirgilDobos
    Moderator
    8 years ago

    Sounds good mate. Have fun! :)

    • The_Boulon's avatar
      The_Boulon
      Level 5
      8 years ago

      OK, 

       

      Currently installing and configuring new server.

      Just one question: Do I still need the indexing service and task on all the other servers knowing that I have a server for that purpose?

      For me, I believe I can delete the task and service as the other service will do the job.

       

      By the way, I needed to configure an indexing server group and add the vault store. Also changed the location (file copy + task).

       

      Let me know

       

      Cheers!

      • GertjanA's avatar
        GertjanA
        Moderator
        8 years ago

        Hello,

        If a server is not doing a specific task, you can remove the service. In my environment, I have an Index Server Group of 4 servers, which only have the Admin, directory and index service. The archiving servers only have Admin, directory, storage and taskcontroller service. Only 1 has shopping, but that is due to this being only Journal Archiving.