
From a technical support perspective, email management is the most demanding technology component in any business. The advances in new media technology have created legitimate business needs for sharing large media presentations via email. Such presentations are known to consume large amounts of storage on email servers and present a challenge to administrators who must balance system performance with business requirements and costs.
In addition to facing the growing demand for storage, technology professionals must also address spyware, spam, and viruses which constantly present time consuming and labor intensive challenges. The end result of these challenges are increased costs in both money, performance and client confidence.
However, the challenges do not end here for a support professional, as risk and contingency planning must also be considered for a business environment. Best practices for backing up email systems and archiving messages is now a legal requirement for many businesses. This requirement translates to yet more storage, equipment, software and labor costs.
Russell Nomer has a background in addressing each of these problems in multiple enterprise environments. Whether you need to find a better storage solution, combat a virus or spyware infestation, perform a migration from one messaging platform to another, or put together the proper business recovery plan, Russell's experience will add value to your project.
For more information on how we can help you, please call 516 932-2121 or email russsell@russellnomer.com
Exchange Migration plan for moving forward:
- Perform Due Diligence on your network
- Identify existing components - users, groups, login variables
- Document proposed AD structure
- Project kickoff meeting
- Install Windows Server 2003
- Install Active Directory
- Configure, Patch and Connect
- Review Event Log, resolve any errors
- Connect AD environment to existing Windows 2000
- Identify existing printers
- Identify existing components in Exchange
- Build Exchange, configure, patch
- Install and configure virus software,Spam solution and Fax Software
- Configure OWA in DMZ
- Verify Installation
- Perform and Verify Backup
- Perform Mailbox Move
- Install Outlook 2003 on all desktops.
- Review Event Log, resolve any errors
- Setup Test workstation/perform testing
- On-Site to handle any issues with the migration
The above steps are only an estimate of work needed to be perform a successful migration. After we perform the Due Diligence Russell Nomer will have a more definite outline in MS Project to fully detail the breadth of work needed to perform the migration . This Due Diligence will identify issues that we can resolve before the migration is performed.
Migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003