There was me expecting them both to go out of the window.
Getting money to replace server kit is like pulling teeth sometimes.
It is much easier to keep rebooting that old Exchange box you want to replace to cause downtime. Of course you would move the MDs mailbox on to that server before you starting your campaign of random reboots. The project gets of the ground quite fast after the MD can't access his mailbox of few times.
Of course I have never done this and you can't prove I did. ;)