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Most organizations today are dependent upon a solid communication infrastructure that is highly available and low-cost to operate. A new survey conducted by a leading research firm found that 68 percent of users become irate in as little as 30 minutes without email access. This same study found that almost a third of IT Managers surveyed would rather suffer a divorce than an email outage. Pressure is increasing on all sides, particularly for the companies that depend upon a 24x7 e-mail access. Another recent survey found that a majority of organizations find email more important than phone . Increasingly email is being augmented with other forms of electronic communication such as web portals and instant messaging to provide benefits to both end users and team. Email has become the primary communication tools and needs to be up to the task.

Exchange Server 2003 is the latest version of Microsofts industry, leading communications server. Exchange Server 2003 provides many new features and enhancements to improve reliability, manageability, and security. Exchange Server 2003 helps IT to deliver the service levels and capabilities demanded by end user while helping organizations to reduce their TCO through areas such as server and site consolidation. Although this new version of Exchange will run on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 is the first version of Exchange designed to run on and take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Data Center 's Microsoft Exchange Consulting Services provide a rigorous process that helps ensure your environment is designed and developed to get maximum business value from your investment.

Microsoft Exchange Consulting Services Overview:

Requirements:

We begin complete a review of your business requirements and the vision and scope of the project. Framing the vision and scope early in the process focuses the project, creating more valuable results with less risk.

Existing Environment:

Next, our consulting team captures key data points about your existing environment so that the design accommodates your needs. Our team assesses your current infrastructure readiness and configuration.

Design Considerations:

We begin design from a logical perspective, taking your business drivers into account, then cover address and recipient management, migration, coexistence, upgrades and deployment models, routing topologies, and administrative models.

Physical Design:

We discuss design for the following: server, migration, coexistence, routing, transport, public folder, client access, calendaring, OWA, and mobile client.

Operations Design:

After our professionals have reviewed major decision points and risk analysis, we focus on operational design, monitoring, and management. We will also cover Microsoft Operations Framework and support options.

Security Meeting:

We then review Messaging Security Design and close out the session with a high level Design Review and an overview of project readiness and risks.

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is a central element of our consulting practice and is incorporated into all activities. Early identification of these risks is vital so that they can be addressed quickly, before they jeopardize your ability to complete your project on time and on budget.

Deliverable

You will receive a detailed written report that includes information gathered, decisions made, and a summary of the next steps needed to successfully deploy Exchange 2003.