RE: understanding storage groups, stores, and exchange databases

  • From: "A. M. Salim" <msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:33:06 -0500 (EST)

Hi Mark,

> Standard can only have 1 Mailbox Store and 1 Public Folder Store

Thanks!  So ... what is the benefit of being able to have up to 4 storage
groups and 5 databases per store when you can only have one mailbox db and
1 public folder db?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. M. Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 January 2005 14:17
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] understanding storage groups, stores, and
> exchange databases
>
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Can anyone shed light on this official Microsoft description of Exchange
> 2003 editions:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/editions.mspx
>
> According to this page, in the table labeled "Choose Your Edition" the
> Standard Edition can have 4 storage groups, with 5 databases per storage
> group.  But then the next row states that there is a limit of 1 mailbox
> store database per server.  So what am I missing?
>
> Can I have 20 mailbox store databases on the server (4 SG's with 5 DB's
> per SG) or just one?  There seems to be some fine print here that I am
> just not seeing.
>
> Any pointers to a desription of the difference between "databases" and
> "mailbox store databases" (and MAPI and Public Folders) would be most
> helpful, the more detailed the better (more info than found in KB 258509
> at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258509).
>
> best regards
> Mike
>
>
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