Exchange Server Quick Start
The Exchange Server Quick Start provides you with 160 hours of expert technical services to help in the early stage of a deployment project.The key value of this service is the interactive design sessions during which our consultant gathers information about your environment and needs, educates your staff on the critical architecture decisions, and guides you to the best solutions. Our consultants then prepare and review an architecture document with you.
Major milestones include:
Requirements. The Quick Start engagement begins with a review of the business requirements and definition of the project vision and scope. Key project criteria is considered in the context of your business objectives. Framing the vision and scope focuses the project to produce more valuable results with less risk.
Design sessions. Our consultant will lead a series of interactive design sessions covering the core decisions that must be made to successfully develop a first pass design. The design sessions cover:
- Logical design. The first step is to consider the ideal system design that will guide later sessions as they address issues with practical realization of the vision.
- Active Directory™ (Exchange Server integration with and requirements for Active Directory). Review an existing Active Directory design or make recommendations to the design team.
- Physical design. Review implementing the logical design through consideration of server design, routing topology, Internet e-mail, secure e-mail, and administration.
- Upgrade and coexistence. Discuss upgrade strategies along with best practices for handling coexistence and migration and deploying the Active Directory Connector or other directory synchronization tools.
- Client issues. Review choice of client, use of Microsoft Outlook™ Web Access, public folders, and enterprise calendaring.
- Collaboration features: Choose options for deploying instant messaging and Live Communications Server.
- Operations. Review principles of complete Microsoft Operations Framework models and essential operations procedures.
- Wide area network design
- Network operating systems
- Existing e-mail infrastructure
- Current and future administration models
- Corporate namespace standards and requirements
- Application integration requirements
- User population breakdown by location and role
Deliverable. The Quick Start Architecture Plan document will detail all the information gathered and decisions made during the project. It will include a summary of the next steps needed to successfully deploy Exchange Server. This summary will highlight areas unique to the environment that will require further detailed follow-up.
Outline of Topics Covered
| Logical design | |
|---|---|
| Administration model | Deployment model |
| Active Directory | |
| Administration Model | Recipient policies |
| Integration | Group design |
| Address lists | Connector |
| Physical Design | |
| Deployment model | Routing topology |
| Server design | Internet e-mail |
| Implementing the administration model | Secure e-mail |
| Upgrade and Coexistence | |
| Upgrade strategy | Directory synchronization tools including Active Directory Connector |
| Coexistence and migration | |
| Client | |
| Public folders | Client issues |
| Calendaring | Outlook Web Access |
| Client choice | |
| Operations | |
| Management and monitoring | Anti-virus measures |
| Exchange operations | |
| Collaboration Features | |
| Public folders | Microsoft Live Communications Server |
| Instant Messaging | |