Microsoft® and Guided Technology team up to offer a QuickStart Deployment Program-- a great way to get your project moving. The Microsoft QuickStart Planning for Microsoft Exchange 2013 Service is designed to provide you with expert technical services to help in the early stage of a deployment and upgrade projects.

Key to the value of the service is the interactive design sessions during which our consultants gather information about your environment and needs, educates on the critical architecture decisions, and determine the best solution for your environment. Guided consultants then prepare and review an architecture document with you. The project includes the following main elements:

·      Requirements Analysis. A review of the business requirements and the vision and scope of the project. Key project criteria will be 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 Analysis. 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.

• Microsoft Active Directory™ (Microsoft Exchange 2013 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 SharePoint integration.

• Operations. Review principles of complete Microsoft Operations Framework models and essential operations procedures.

·      Assessment. Information will be gathered on the existing environment during the design sessions so that the plan addresses any potential issues, including those related to legacy systems:

• 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

·      Interoperability. Coexistence with current systems is vital to a successful information technology deployment and migration. Our consultants will provide direction on interoperability with other e-mail systems, directories, and security infrastructures as needed.

·      Deliverable. The Microsoft QuickStart 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 Microsoft Exchange 2013 Server. This summary will highlight areas unique to the environment that will require further detailed follow-up.

Exchange 2010 Time Frame. The Microsoft QuickStart Planning for Exchange 2013 service is delivered during a three to four-week period.

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