@crustachio Totally agree. I also hate how slow it is. The C# client is way better.

OMG. I feel dumb. LOL - But in my defense, you don't normally type into a drop down menu.

Does anyone know why I don't have the option to tag the traffic? I have the options for External Switch Tagging "0" and Virtual Guest Tagging VGT "4095". Where is my VST option?

Cool. Thanks guys. I will tag the vswitch and the physical switch and make sure that the vswitch exists on all 3 of my hosts.

I have to create a VLAN for an Ubuntu server running on ESXi 6 and wasn't sure if I need to create the VLAN tagging on the Ubuntu server's NIC, as well as the VMware vSwitch and physical switch or just the vswitch and physical switch. Anyone know?

@scottalanmiller said:

The NEW Scale Cluster just arrived!! Three more nodes. Our last one was an HC2100. This one is the HC2150, the pure SSD cluster. Can't wait to test this out!

:drool:

@DustinB3403 At the hypervisor level. I am most familiar with VMware and I use Veeam.

For people using Xen or KVM, what do you use for backups?

Thanks to everyone for participating. Anything else that should be considered?

@Dashrender Litigation hold is usually for certain users at a time and not retroactive if something has already been removed. Kind of like half-way archiving.

@scottalanmiller So you would basically add a 3rd party archiving service?

@Dashrender Email archiving software/appliances.

@scottalanmiller No, I have not. But I know I will get asked this- what if someone intentionally deletes messages past the deleted items retention period?

Also, what would someone use this for if everything is baked in (specifically the Exchange part)
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uspartner_ts2team/2015/12/31/microsoft-partner-azure-iur-skykick-cloud-backup-offer/

@DustinB3403 Are you referring to the equivalent of the Enterprise User CALs?

@Dashrender Hmm. So far, from some brief googling, the ability to recover/restore seems underwhelming.

@Dashrender Exchange Database backups.

@Dashrender I remember SAM saying something about NTG providing migration services. I don't know much more than that.

I am starting the planning for migrating our on-prem Exchange 2010 server to a hosted solution. I have been leaning toward Office 365 for some time, as we have been using the pro plus subscription for the client side of things for a couple of years and have heard mostly good things about it for the Exchange hosting side of things. If other people have service providers that they think are way better for hosted Exchange, please chime in.

I also wanted to build a check list of things that need to be considered when migrating and running Exchange as a hosted service.

• I am currently using Azure AD Connect (was using dirsync) to sync AD user accounts and passwords for Office 365.
• What should I use for backup of the databases?
• Service provider to perform the migration?
• Do I need additional spam filtering/ AV?

Any other tips or suggestions that I should consider or plan for are greatly appreciated.

@scottalanmiller You scared me. I had a brain fart and was trying to figure out if I didn't plan correctly.

@scottalanmiller Two switches?