Microsoft Services
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Jumpstart
Overview
To compete successfully in today’s challenging business climate, organizations must enable more efficient ways for information workers to communicate and collaborate. Employee productivity must be enhanced while providing an email environment that is secure and reliable. Additionally, organizations want to take full advantage of past email server investments so they can reduce or maintain IT costs. This service provides a rigorous process that helps ensure your environment is designed and developed to get maximum business value from your investment. This is the first step in the larger Microsoft Portfolio for Collaboration, a comprehensive service delivering Microsoft best practices and implementation guidance that will efficiently lead you through design and testing, into deployment and long term operations and maintenance.
This service covers the following main areas:
- Requirements
We begin with 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 a SMP Jumpstart 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
Interactive design sessions, in which your team learns how to apply Microsoft best practices to your environment, are a key benefit of a SMP Jumpstart. Understanding how the decisions were made is critical to your ability to implement the recommendations. 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.
Consulting Team
QuickPlan consulting offerings are delivered by Microsoft Services consultants working together with our Microsoft Certified Partners. This gives you Microsoft best practices combined with a third-party perspective.