Dear all,

I need info on managed exchange hosting, about the control panels available for providers.

I would like to start providing managed exchange hosting services.

Zaheer

There’s a wide array of control panels available for Exchange, Microsoft have their Hosted Messaging solution, SWSoft have PEM, HSphere, DotNetPanel (2007 only), Ensim, plus a few others. They vary from needing only one server (such as dotnetpanel) to needing 8 or more (MS and SWSoft). It all depends on what sort of infrastructure you are looking at.

Thanks sam_cogan

Any recommendations??

What is the ideal setup for an hosting company? How many servers etc? roles?

Infrastructure requirements?

Thanks

Well it really depends on how much you have to invest. You can offer hosted exchange with just one server (not reccomended) or a couple of redundent domain controllers and a FE-BE setup, right the way up to multiple redundent DC's, Clustered Exchange, Sharepoint and Live Communication Servers.

Do you guys know where I can get the EXCHANGE license? Hopefully for a monthly cost?

Thank you

If your offering hosted Exchange, teh only way to do it is with SPLA licencing, which is a monthly amount. You'll need to sign up with an SPLA provider.