How to host Exchange 2013 with Minimised Cost ?
I just tried to find some answers for that . and create a step by step procedure
Step 1:
Find the best Location – With Good Power , Can Withstand disaster
If you don’t have a good infrastructure . Never worry , There are Cloud Servers you can rent .
There are many providers in the Market.
Step 2:
Choose a good Control Panel to Server the clients
There are good Software’s in the market.
Citrix
http://www.ems-cortex.com/
If you feel you don’t want to invest on a huge licensing cost for a Control panel. There are open source Control Panels available in the market
WebsitePanel
Note : No much documentation available , You may need to spend much money on Support in fixing some issues
Choose Simplest Architecture – With Good High availability and Best options to Expand
Step 3:
Purchasing Part
Required Hardware –
64Bit Servers – 5
1 hardware load balancer – It can be Cisco ACE , F5 , Kemp
Windows server 2012 licences – 5
Required Public IP – 2
Required Public DNS records – 4 ( As per diagram )
Exchange SSL Cert from Digi Cert, Go Daddy with those DNS entries
Exchange Servers Will need 16GB Ram Each , with high Processor Range
Domain Controllers will require 8 GB Ram Each
Websitepanel Server will require 16GB Ram
All Servers are High availability Configured with this configuration
Website panel Portal server will be single point failure (As is not going to disrupt the service even when it goes down)
Step 4:
Promote 2 Machines as Domain Controllers
https://www.azure365pro.com/how-to-promote-windows-server-2012-as-a-domain-controller/
Step 5:
Install Exchange 2013 all roles on 2 Servers
https://www.azure365pro.com/how-to-install-exchange-2013-on-windows-server-2012/
Step 6:
Configure Database Availability Group for MBX Role
https://www.azure365pro.com/how-to-create-a-database-availability-group-in-exchange-2013/
Step 7:
Configure Client Access High Availability for CAS Role
Step 8:
Configure your Public DNS records to VIP
https://www.azure365pro.com/configuring-public-dns-and-mx-records-for-exchange-2013/
Step 9:
See How to Install and Configure Open source Control panel for Exchange 2013
How to Install Website Panel 2.1 Windows Server 2012
https://www.azure365pro.com/how-to-install-website-panel-2-1-windows-server-2012/
How to Configure Website Panel 2.1 for Exchange Server 2013
https://www.azure365pro.com/how-to-configure-website-panel-2-1-for-exchange-server-2013/
Step10:
Test the High Availability
Step 11:
Buy a SSL Cert from anyone of the Certificate Providers like Digi Cert,Go Daddy
Configuring 3rd Party SSL Exchange Certificate in Exchange 2013
https://www.azure365pro.com/configuring-3rd-party-ssl-exchange-certificate-in-exchange-2013/
Step 12:
Find a Client – Start Selling mailboxes
Tough part
Hope Its helpful guide to start from scratch.
Thank you very much.
Mohammed,
Thank you for the information. I am having difficulty figuring out how to make each client’s mail have an appropriate header.
Can the system be set up so that each tenant appears to have their own email. IE Set the “Sent By / Received From” server name for each of the hosted domains? Then how do you deal with the requirement that mail servers have an RDNS record?
Thanks.
Hosted exchange . All email going to sent from same server .
Just we are segregating users .
Where one tenant cannot see the other .
Hi
We currently have a 2010 SP2 multi-tenant hosted enviroment. When setting this up i know there was a lot of stuff to do with setting up each Tenant to make sure they had no access to other tenants etc in the organisation. We now currently have Powershell scripts that we run to create new tenants and new users within those tenants.
Is there anything special that needs to be done to Active Directory here as i notice this guide has none of that information?
The Control panel takes care of all those things.
Hi dear
What about the password sync? means the local AD on the tenant how will be sync with their Ou ?? is there and power shell script can be installed on both side ??
Sorry for the Delay.
Providers like ExtendASP provide Ad Sync solutions inbuilt.
Pretty! This has been a really wonderful article.
Thank you for providing this information.