Life of an Admin

I am back blogging after a long time now. Well, just bored and tired from reading about Exchange so took a break.
Exchange 2003 , the lastest project at my company..
After reading a little about it here and there.. i think it is not as easy as it may seem. The first tast at my hand is deciding the hardware.
So i dedicating the next few days on planning the architecture, and then deciding the hardware. For our company size i think a 1 dual processor server with enough harddrive storage in Raid Configuration should be enough,, will also evaluate the need for Storage array but i doubt we would need it.
the machine.. i think will go with a 2u server with 4 channel Raid and 8 hot swap SCSI Drives. Think this should be enough .. lets see..
also need to evaluate the backup and recovery procedure...
In a way its good.. atleast something new and exciting to do..

Time frame.. well i think i should have this in production within a month.. this includes.. planning, hardware ordering, configurations, testing and deployment..

Lets see if i am being too optimistic ..

:)