Exchange Server 2007 Partners: Migration

SI Enterprise Communications Solution built on Exchange Server enables collaboration, enhanced communication and sets the foundation for Unified Communications. Avanade offers proven Exchange Server 2007 solutions and expertise to help customers optimize employee productivity and business success, with an integrated messaging and collaboration platform from Microsoft that is easy to use, reduces management overhead, and is flexible enough to accommodate changing business needs. Avanade has specialized Exchange Server 2007 consultants worldwide and eight Microsoft Certified Architects on staff. We have invested in assets and IP to reduce customer costs to speed delivery time and minimize risk and offer proven experience from hundreds of Exchange engagements with companies across all industry sectors. Enterprise Communication Solution: Enhance e-mail functions, centralize messaging, and introduce real-time communication and collaboration on a foundation of Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Avanade has a collection of assets and IP to help customers seamlessly migrate from legacy email- systems or to upgrade to Exchange Server 2007.

Exchange X.400 Bridgehead: Boldon James, the Microsoft messaging specialist for Defence, Intelligence and Homeland Security, is delighted to announce it has developed a new X.400 Bridgehead Server for Microsoft Exchange 2007. The Bridgehead will provide continued interoperability for existing users of X.400 on Exchange, especially in the Defence and Aviation Sectors. Boldon James’ new X.400 Bridgehead for Exchange 2007 is the result of the continuing close working relationship between Boldon James and Microsoft’s Exchange Development Group in Redmond, Washington, USA. It supports the very latest X.400 interoperability standards for both Defence and Aviation sectors, and demonstrates the flexibility of the Microsoft Exchange Server to support 3rd party connector development. The Bridgehead supports the latest 1999 ITU X.400 standards, as well as the important Defence (STANAG 4406, ACP123, ACP120 and ACP145) and Aviation (ICAO Doc 9705 SARPS) industry standards. It is packaged as an Exchange Extension Component with all configuration and management via a MMC Snap-In. In addition, it also makes full use of Microsoft’s Active Directory and Exchange management tools. Boldon James has a series of related products in the process of being ported to Exchange 12. Contact us now for details of, ACP145 Gateway, Multi Function Gateway for Defence, AMHS/AFTN Gateway for Aviation, DMS Domain Fortezza Server for Exchange 2007 and Draft and Release Message Workflow for Defence.

Centerlogic provides planning, design, configuration and migration from a Legacy Exchange Server to Exchange Server 2007. Centerlogic offers a unique approach to our consulting services, and as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we pride ourselves on delivering solid technology solutions driven by business realities to further enable your success. We believe that a project requires more than just the deployment to guarantee an accurate solution that addresses needs of your company. We follow a framework based on Microsoft Best Practices which focuses on clearly defined and managed scope.

At CodeCenters International, providing global Exchange 2007 Mail solutions is our specialty. As a Gold Certified Partner, we focus on design, implementation, training and disaster recovery services for enterprise level messaging systems. Our Microsoft Certified Technicians and Trainers are available around the clock to offer infrastructure solutions that will ensure your mission critical Exchange servers are up and running 24/7. Our past implementations cover thousands of users in industries from health care to industrial mining. So whether you’re migrating from an older version of Exchange or implementing a large-scale Exchange Server 2007 messaging network, CodeCenters International has the hands-on experience, global reach and technical know-how to ensure your success.

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant's 45,000-plus employees have a single-minded passion to collaborate with clients and leverage information technology to make their businesses stronger. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and the S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is ranked among the top information technology companies in Business Week's Hot Growth companies (June 2007). Cognizant's IT Infrastructure Services Practice provides end-to-end Exchange migration solutions covering architecture, design, implementation, management and on-going support across the entire enterprise technology infrastructure. The comprehensive portfolio includes consulting, systems integration and predictive remote monitoring and management for the application, server, storage, security, network and end-user computing environments. Cognizant’s innovative Exchange migration and deployment assets, methodologies, and expertise allow it to deliver successfully and comprehensively while lowering the overall program risk and cost. With its expert capabilities, innovative assets, and comprehensive service offerings Cognizant is the clear leader in messaging, directory, and application migrations to the Microsoft platform. Cognizant is recognized by Microsoft as a leading global system integrator and Microsoft has inducted Cognizant into their distinguished Microsoft Global Alliance Partner program. As a Global Alliance Partner, Cognizant has exclusive access to early Microsoft internal training, access to product groups such as Exchange and Windows, and is a preferred partner to their Enterprise Services organization.

The EMC-Microsoft partnership is built on a long history of integrating best in class storage, software and services that create a dynamic information infrastructure and help customers maximize the value of their information throughout its lifecycle at the lowest total cost. EMC’s Microsoft Practice provides end-to-end professional services (strategy, design, implementation and management) enabling you to optimize Exchange 2007, Active Directory and Windows Server. Throughout the project lifecycle, EMC guarantees quality management using its Assured Performance methodology to ensure proper planning, identify communication requirements, and design a solution to meet your specific goals and objectives. Whether you are upgrading from earlier versions of Exchange or migrating from a competitive platform such as Novell Groupwise or Lotus Notes, EMC has the skilled consultants and proven delivery experience to mitigate the risk of implementation and accelerate the productivity benefits of Exchange 2007 to your organization. Additionally, EMC’s market leading storage systems and software provide a proven infrastructure for Exchange 2007 that delivers security, performance, availability, protection and compliance capabilities.

Enabling Technologies has the expertise needed to help your company implement this powerful messaging solution. We can analyze your current messaging infrastructure, prepare your Active Directory, plan your implementation, run the testing and pilot program, and make the final installation. As a Microsoft Gold Solution provider, Enabling Technologies will plan, design, and implement your client’s MS Exchange solution. We are actively migrating customers from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 and performing implementations of Active Directory. When availability is a critical requirement, we will implement an Exchange solution in a high availability clustered environment. Along with these services, we offer support and troubleshooting to ensure stable, reliable messaging infrastructure. Make sure you’re taking full advantage of Exchange. Our certified technical staff can seamlessly integrate the enterprise upgrade for Unified Messaging, speech-enabled Outlook, fax solutions, anti-spam, email/IM archival and emaill/IM content filtering.

HP and its strategic partners offer a broad, rich, and integrated portfolio (servers, storage, PC's, mobile clients, software and services) of proven Microsoft Exchange solutions. HP Exchange services provide global consulting and support for Microsoft infrastructure needs -- Windows 2003, Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2007 - delivered by the recognized Prime Integrator for Microsoft infrastructure solutions. Our full life-cycle services are tailored to meet your objectives. We offer end-to-end support - including services such as environment reviews, rapid pilot, planning and design, migration, systems integration, deployment, hosting, management, outsourcing, and high availability for mission-critical environments. HP Microsoft solutions, services and methodologies have been tested and proven in thousands of customer environments, from small businesses to the largest global enterprises. HP has been the partner of choice for Microsoft Exchange services since it was introduced in 1995, and is the 2005 Microsoft Technology and Services Partner of the Year. The Microsoft and HP partnership is one of the oldest of its kind in the industry with 20 years of combined marketplace leadership. Our focus on innovation and synchronization, our technical expertise and track record, and stability-driven approach enable us to offer proven Frontline Innovation for the way you run your business, for the way you work and for the way you experience technology.

InfoWAN provides full migration services for your migration projects. It offers a full service from the design to the implementation and completes the migration services with migration tools to enable a fast, secure and reliable migration. Personal Address Book Importer and other tools for the migration enable a fast and reliable migration. infoWAN offers email, calendar and address book migration from Lotus Notes/Domino and other systems to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook in Germany.

Effective Messaging, Collaboration, Knowledge & Identity Management, and Security have become critical to the success of every enterprise. With Janalent’s ADE2 Success Framework for Microsoft Exchange, we ensure your business and technology success. To remain competitive in today’s globalized marketplace, organizations must maintain and enhance their competitive advantages wherever possible. The convergence of technologies along with the increased competition in emerging markets have created wonderful opportunities, but also significant challenges for organizations across the globe. As a trusted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Janalent has helped organizations across five continents to migrate, and manage their Microsoft Exchange & Collaboration infrastructures. Janalent offers solutions focused on the analysis, alignment, design, deployment, migration, knowledge transfer, and infrastructure evolution for Exchange 2003, and Exchange 2007. Our consultants have successfully delivered strategic solution architecture, technical leadership, and implementation solutions for many of the largest technology deployments and migration initiatives in the world. From diamond and copper mines in the remotest parts South America to the banking and commerce centers across the globe, Janalent solution architects & consultants have successfully deployed or migrated literally millions of Exchange mailboxes throughout the product’s lifecycle. Our consultants have executed over 400 Exchange projects in the last five years. In addition to being a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Janalent is also an Elite Quest Software Partner with the most migration toolset experience of any partner globally. By using our proven ADE2 Success Methodology, Janalent will ensure success on both your strategic business and tactical infrastructure project needs.

M3 Technology Group (M3TG) provides enterprise collaboration, messaging, and directory expertise, services and support for Fortune 1000 Companies and government agencies. Our customers require unbiased expertise in building, operating and maintaining the most pervasive and vulnerable areas of business environments. M3TG solutions and services revolve around secure electronic messaging, infrastructure, monitoring, collaborative solutions and technologies, meta-directory technology, and handheld wireless communications. M3TG provides lifecycle support and migration services for platforms such as Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, Sharepoint, Systems Management Server (SMS), Microsoft Operations Manger (MOM), Live Communication Server (LCS), with migrations from GroupWise, IBM Domino, and all Unix mail platforms.

Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry’s leading information management solution for Microsoft Exchange. NearPoint supports Exchange 2007 and will extend Exchange 2007 functionality in the key areas of archival, recovery and mailbox management. NearPoint unifies archival, eDiscovery, storage management, fine-grained and immediate recovery, and user self-service access to all historical e-mail. NearPoint is an application-intelligent solution providing deep integration with Exchange and Outlook. It is based on Microsoft technologies, runs on standard Windows Server™ hardware. Administrators configure policies and perform immediate restore using the standard Microsoft Management Console. NearPoint provides end-users and auditors with instant search and access to e-mail that has been protected and archived via a standard Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access (OWA) user interface. NearPoint extends Exchange 2007 with: 1.) Enterprise enabled search and discovery and automated retention and disposition of all email records for regulatory compliance and corporate governance. 2.) Continuous data protection based on Exchange log files with no restrictions on Storage Groups or Mailbox Stores. 3.) Immediate recovery for Exchange data of any scope, from complete information stores to mailboxes, or individual messages. 4.) Storage optimization for Exchange with features to manage both online storage and offline storage, supporting unlimited mailbox capacity for business end users.

Email, instant messaging and real-time collaboration tools enable your people to work better, smarter and faster - together - to achieve your organization's goals. If your organization is seeking to abandon a disorganized array of unreliable, collaboration-inhibiting applications, or just improve ease of communication both within and beyond your enterprise, please talk to us. We can help your organization implement Microsoft-based solutions that improve the quality and speed of communication, enhance organizational agility, and accelerate information sharing. Leveraging the Microsoft technologies you already own, PointBridge will partner with your organization to improve internal collaboration, expedite external communication with partners and leverage timely information across diverse business units. Our clients count on us to migrate and manage email systems and we’re known for our special expertise with Domino/Notes to Exchange 2003/2007 migrations. We strive to accommodate the productivity needs of an on-the-go workforce through the implementation of real-time communication capabilities that speed communication and facilitate decision making. PointBridge has the expertise to architect, deliver, support and service messaging and communications solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies, including Exchange 2003/2007 and Live Communications Server. We won the Microsoft Exchange Solution of the Year Award in 2005, and we continue to build winning solutions for our clients.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Project Leadership Associates (PLA) offers a full spectrum of Microsoft Unified Communication (UC) Solutions using Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Real-Time Collaboration solutions. Our experience has proven that Microsoft’s UC solutions have a positive direct impact to our customer’s business processes and collaboration. Improved communication and collaboration means a more productive and effective staff that can be measured to increased revenues and a competitive edge for our customers. Our solutions include the design and deployment of Microsoft Windows, Office Communication Server, SharePoint technologies and Exchange 2007 with Unified Messaging. PLA was the first Midwest partner to design and deploy pre-release versions of Exchange 2007 with Unified Messaging for a global enterprise customer as part of the Exchange 2007 Rapid Deployment Program (RDP). The RDP provided PLA with specialized training as well as an opportunity to work with pre-release versions of Exchange 2007 in a production environment before the final release. PLA has also provided expertise and led a number of customers through full scale migrations from legacy Exchange platforms and competitive email platforms such as Lotus Domino/Notes and Novell GroupWise. Our experienced consultants work with each organization to understand their business issues and requirements as we plan, develop and implement their new communication and collaboration infrastructure. PLA was recently selected out of 200 Midwest Gold Certified Partners as the Midwest Enterprise Partner of the Year because of our commitment to customer satisfaction and expertise delivering complex Microsoft Unified Communication solutions. PLA is one of the founding and leading sponsors of the Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group (www.mmcug.org) created to drive education and awareness around Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Microsoft Real-Time Collaboration solutions.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Strategic Solutions Group, Inc., has been at the forefront of Exchange migration, integration, and development for medium to small size businesses in the IN/OH/MI area since the product was initially introduced. Get connected with Exchange Server 2007 Exchange Server 2007 is the Microsoft messaging and collaboration server designed to help you communicate more effectively. Along with the rich client functionality provided by Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Exchange Server 2007 offers: • Easy upgrading, deployment, and administration • E-mail-based collaboration • High reliability and outstanding performance • Lower cost of ownership through the services provided by Microsoft Windows Server 2003 • Mobile, remote, and desktop e-mail access with state-of-the-art security and privacy Better Together: Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 are designed to work together to provide you with the highest available levels of performance, reliability, security, and manageability. Built on the success of Exchange 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 continue to drive new standards and help you reduce total cost of ownership for messaging and collaboration. A few key additions to the 2007 versions are: • Active Directory performance enhancements in Windows Server 2003 help you install Exchange Server 2007. • Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and Windows RPC Proxy service in Windows Server 2003 enable communication between Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 by means of HTTP • HTTPS connections enable more secure access to Exchange Server 2007 over the Internet without the need for a virtual private network (VPN).

Transend Migrator is an e-mail migration tool that converts mailbox data from a variety of messaging systems into Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007. It is a MAPI-enabled client application that interfaces between the source system and the message stores for Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007, as well as earlier versions of Exchange Server and Outlook. Source messaging data that can be converted to Exchange and Outlook include: Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise, various Internet clients (Netscape, Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus), IMAP, POP, Outlook Express, AOL, CompuServe, Yahoo, Hotmail and more. Transend Migrator converts messages/folders, archives, attachments, contacts/address books, calendars and tasks. Message properties and fields from the source system are maintained in Exchange and Outlook, as are folder names and folder structure. Messages, contact and calendar entries are fully compliant with Exchange Server 2007 features such as Outlook Web Access, Journaling and Message Classification. It includes a wizard-driven interface that’s suitable for end users or smaller scale migrations and a powerful batch mode processor that enables the unattended conversion of thousands of mailboxes. The batch mode processor runs in conjunction with a user created parameter file (DAT) that tells Transend Migrator what to convert and how to convert it. An array of command line switches add features or alter behavior without requiring any changes to the user interface. Switches can be used with the wizard interface or batch mode processor and enable Transend Migrator to run in virtually any environment or specialized situation. Transend Migrator has been used for individual user migrations as well as migrations by international enterprises with over 100,000 mailboxes. In total Transend Migrator has converted well over 3.5 million mailboxes worldwide. A free trial version is available at www.transend.com.

As messaging continues to growth in both volume and business importance Exchange Server has maintained the pace through significant improvements in performance and availability, client/server communications, and server consolidation strategies. Moving from earlier Exchange versions to take advantage of high availability and reliability, storage, and mobility enhancements to meet more stringent service level goals and provide increased user flexibility is leading the rush. Exchange Messaging Upgrade - Trinity Consulting’s Migration service provides a comprehensive review of the existing infrastructure, gap analysis, and an initial to end state mapping of technologies. We make every possible effort to reduce the size of the environment while avoiding single points of failure to provide as high a level of availability as required. Design Process & Deliverables - Once our Assessment is complete, we apply the same design principles to Exchange Upgrade Migrations that we do to all of our architecture and design projects. We lead your messaging administrators through each of the project phases and major milestones prior to training and migration: Conceptual Design. Detailed Design, and Design Validation. For a detailed outline and description of each of these deliverables, refer to our Exchange Architecture & Design services offering. Our service ensures minimal disruption to the existing messaging environment; provides complete coexistence and functionality with the earlier version system throughout the migration. Trinity Consulting provides this service offering using a mix of fixed and project-based rates. This approach can be most cost-effective and allows our clients to make accurate cost projects on migration efforts throughout the migration effort.