Server Setup for Legal Firm
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@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
Server Brand, Family Model and Server OS
I like Dell, but HPE is very good, too.
R740 is the "go to" general purpose server from Dell. HPE would be the DL380.
Hit up xByte for better Dell pricing.
Server OS - you never deploy old software, and since you already stated it was Windows, there is no possible variance in the answer here, right, it is Windows 2016 (unless 2019 releases again before your project starts.) But in any case, you always deploy "current Windows" if Windows is the requirement.
You never mention hypervisor. In your scenario, if it were me I'd use KVM, especially for security, stability, performance, and ease of use. But Hyper-V is quite good and your rule about no open source means your options are pretty limited - basically only Hyper-V.
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@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
Any help will be appreciated
You should be reading the replies to your post here instead of creating accounts all over the web and pasting the same question, especially on that one site
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@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
We need AD and share point = Server A, Server B File Server (Heavy usage due to Documents and archives) (File Share back up to Cloud) Which cloud service should I Use? Web Hosting and one to for Client Database Management. Server C (Can the web hosting and Client database management system be on one Server?)
By "server", I am believing that you are intending to say "VM"? You only want one server, surely. Even at your top end projection of seventy users, you are not big enough to consider a second server yet.
Server A - you never put AD and Sharepoint together. Very different systems that are meant to be on their own. AD should be one VM, Sharepoint another.
Server B - why a separate file server from the file server you just mentioned, Sharepoint? And if you need to mix AD with something, it should be the fileserver, not Sharepoint.
Which cloud service? For what? To host your servers? Vultr is popular around here and supports Windows. Azure would be popular typically, as well.
Server C - web host and client data on the same VM seems like a very bad idea.
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@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
I am leaning to Floor Standing Server Rack (foresee future need to add storage), Intel Xeon processors,
I am assuming that you mean a Tower server? Physically, obviously, you need only a single server. So having a server rack is likely overkill. A whole rack just to hold one small server probably doesn't make sense.
Intel Xeon processor, singular. A single processor will be way more than what you need unless there is something that you have not mentioned here. File servers, Sharepoint, AD, web servers are all things that use very little processor and only seventy users, that's not much at all.
I'm confused you ask what form factor but earlier you asked which cloud host. Surely it is one or the other. If you are going with a cloud system you will have no physical server. If you have a physical server, you will have no cloud host?
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@reid-cooper Yeah a lot of what Hari has said don't add up.
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
Server Brand, Family Model and Server OS (security has to be top notch no opensource please
)?This is a conflict in two ways.
First: Never apply arbitrary rules when they aren't in line with your goals, this is illogical.
Second: Open source is specifically vastly better specifically for security. I think you worded this incorrectly. If security was your goal, it is closed source you'd be wary to use, not open.Do you have a macro to respond to stuff like this, or do you type it up each time?
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@BRRABill said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
Server Brand, Family Model and Server OS (security has to be top notch no opensource please
)?This is a conflict in two ways.
First: Never apply arbitrary rules when they aren't in line with your goals, this is illogical.
Second: Open source is specifically vastly better specifically for security. I think you worded this incorrectly. If security was your goal, it is closed source you'd be wary to use, not open.Do you have a macro to respond to stuff like this, or do you type it up each time?
LOL, I type it up each time. If I get to the macro point, I write an article and link it.
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If you do a search on the title here, you get this same topic, with no responses from the OP, in a few other locations. I think he ran away or something.
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The best answer I've seen from another site is the one from LastChip at Tech Advisor by IDG:
"Why do you think many of the top tech companies in the world use Linux?
If you mean you're bringing this in house, you'd better have a world class security expert to monitor it. Security for a legal firm would be a nightmare and any breach could be catastrophic to your companies reputation.
I for one, wouldn't offer any guidance as it needs in depth analysis by an expert in your field.
With respect, the fact you're asking theses questions suggests you don't have that level of expertise."
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Following up @hari, you had loads of responses in minutes. And we keep watching over this. I haven't seen you follow up here or any other community you joined for this question. Is there more that we can help with?
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@Texkonc it's been a long time since ML has seen a 1PW.
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what's 1PW?
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one post wonder?
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@Donahue said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
one post wonder?
Exactly.
1PW's drive me absolutely insane. Between here (which has been realllllllly nice) and
, I wish their was a count at the top for how many times the original poster replied.Nothing worse than seen 5 pages of replies asking for further info to solve their problem when the 1PW abandons the post.
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I've seen other forums that required things like higher post counts before being able to start a new thread. I am not sure of that solves the problem or just moves it to somewhere else. I think I have also seen where new users must post to the "newbie" section before a moderator would unlock their access to post in the other sections, that way they didn't dilute the main content. I am not sure if that is a good idea or not, but it is something that is sometimes done.
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@pmoncho said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@Donahue said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
one post wonder?
Exactly.
1PW's drive me absolutely insane. Between here (which has been realllllllly nice) and
, I wish their was a count at the top for how many times the original poster replied.Nothing worse than seen 5 pages of replies asking for further info to solve their problem when the 1PW abandons the post.
Its' super rare here, this is one of the very few. On
it's the norm, I swear. So common. -
@Donahue said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
I've seen other forums that required things like higher post counts before being able to start a new thread. I am not sure of that solves the problem or just moves it to somewhere else. I think I have also seen where new users must post to the "newbie" section before a moderator would unlock their access to post in the other sections, that way they didn't dilute the main content. I am not sure if that is a good idea or not, but it is something that is sometimes done.
The upside of allowing anyone to start a thread, is that at least we have good discussions from it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@pmoncho said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
@Donahue said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:
one post wonder?
Exactly.
1PW's drive me absolutely insane. Between here (which has been realllllllly nice) and
, I wish their was a count at the top for how many times the original poster replied.Nothing worse than seen 5 pages of replies asking for further info to solve their problem when the 1PW abandons the post.
Its' super rare here, this is one of the very few. On
it's the norm, I swear. So common.I agree and that is why I hang out here more than anywhere else.
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@JasGOt Hi Thanks for the reply and your recommendations, sorry for the delayed response. Had to research more on 'our requirements' vs what 'we think we need' rather 'what we do need' As you were knew from the Post i am new to this.
About G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook 4.0.16.0 we have here.
Setting the mailbox size to 1GB and getting them to use Gmail for older emails. Than will raise it according depending on user needs. This has fix most Outlook Syncing from Gsuite issues here.The below KB help to clearing identify what wont sync..
https://support.google.com/a/answer/6209363
This statement from the vendor was surprising 'We are strongly advice to use the web interface and not 3rd party apps to connect to our mail services.'
Just sharing on what i found and fix here. Thank again.
