Hello, I have a Dell Dimension 8100 System. Now, I am planning to make it into an Exchange Server with Windows 2000 or 2003 Server on it. The Processor speed is a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz and the amount of memory is 512 MB of memory. Is it recommended to make this an exchange server or must I get a better computer than that. Must I install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or will it be better if I can install Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.

Perhaps this will help:

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows...

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I hope this isn't for production use...

Server class hardware exists for a reason.

FYI, 512M of RAM for an Exchange server is paltry.

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unfortunatly no... you'll barely get it up and running with that... trust me...

i had a phase over exchange 2003 at college... we had to use old dell workstations with 256M of ram... i couldn't do anything... literally...

I have exchange running on my production (home) envirnment running on a dual P3 500, 1gb ram (poweredge 4300 server)

works just fine for my limited use. I would not make this a corp server but more then enough to test on.