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If your company has decided to migrate to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, our assessment service provides a comprehensive analysis of your existing Exchange environment and detailed recommendations on how to best reduce the complexity and the associated costs of planning, deploying, and managing the transition.

Process and Deliverables

We offer Microsoft-certified experts that follow a rigorous, well-established process using industry best practices and procedures to perform a complete assessment that includes:

• Discovery and analysis of existing Exchange infrastructure, configuration, and related documentation including all mail servers.
• Review and analysis of the current Exchange email archive strategy.
• Review and analysis of the current network layout, including internet and WAN configuration and performance.
• Interviews with key IT personnel.
• Generation and delivery of a final report that contains all findings and detailed recommendations, including potential upgrades and migrations of hardware and software that will best take advantage of the new features and functions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.  The report also provides details on how to best manage each recommended upgrade or migration and any mitigating circumstances that may affect the overall deployment strategy.

Benefits

• A clear understanding of how to best prepare for a transition to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
• Simplified deployment, migration, and management of future resources.
• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership.

Requirements

The following criteria must be met in order to gain maximum benefit from this service:

• Access and availability to email administrator and other key IT personnel for discussion and interviews.
• Local and domain administrator (root) access to existing servers to gather the level of data needed to perform a complete analysis.

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