Exchange Server 2007 Partners: Management

Attachmate's NetIQ AppManager for Microsoft Exchange Server (AppManager for Exchange) extends AppManager Suite (AppManager) and provides the knowledge necessary to monitor, troubleshoot and optimize Exchange Server performance. AppManager for Exchange monitors end-to-end connectivity and assures availability through automated event detection and correction. It also serves as a single point of management for all versions of Exchange Server.

CA Intelligent Storage and Information Management solutions enable you to proactively simplify, securely manage and to protect Microsoft Exchange information and storage assets while optimally aligning with your business objectives. The key is our management software — it intelligently manages your Exchange assets in concert with the needs of your business. Our Information Management solutions for Exchange enable you to effectively manage your most rapidly growing corporate information store, your email and instant messages. Through a comprehensive set of modules that address management, archival and retention, discovery and compliance, CA can help you to address the compliance needs of your business while managing email across multiple email applications. Our Resource Management and Recovery Management solutions help you create better disaster recovery plans, lower storage-related costs and manage information through all stages of its lifecycle. Together these centralized information, recovery and resource management products will enable customers to optimize Exchange application availability, data protection, email archiving, compliance and electronic data discovery across large Exchange environments.

CommVault provides unified enterprise data-management solutions to ensure high-performance data protection, archiving, compliance/content management and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company’s focus is to deliver simple, fast, and scalable products that fit seamlessly into SAN-, NAS- or LAN-based infrastructures. The CommVault solution, based on the CommVault Common Technology Engine, integrates application integrated Backup and Recovery, data migration (HSM), Snapshot and VSS management, high availability, storage resource, and SAN management software solutions into 1 Unified Data Management product. Customers can deploy individual products or seamlessly integrate new elements into an existing CommVault solution at a fraction of the time, effort, and money that would be required to deploy separate products. CommVault’s Single Unified solution makes managing Exchange easier as CommVault restore mailboxes based upon requests from Active Directory OR recreate an individual user’s profile within AD if their mailbox restore warranted it. This enables a single user interface to gain better control of an Exchange and Windows environment.

The EMC-Microsoft partnership is built on a long history of integrating best in class systems, software and services to help customers realize the benefits of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for Microsoft environments. EMC’s Microsoft Practice provides end-to-end professional services (strategy, design and implementation) enabling you to optimize Exchange 2007, Active Directory and Windows Server deployments, upgrades and migrations. Additionally, EMC’s market leading storage systems and software along with documented best practices, provide proven infrastructure for Exchange 2007 that delivers performance, availability, protection and compliance capabilities. EMC solution for Exchange management allows you to improve control of your infrastructure investments with a centralized storage architecture and software management tools.

Cortex offers Hosted Exchange and Collaboration solutions service providers a secure provisioning and user identity management platform that allows managed services providers to integrate multiple vendors’ services and applications into business solutions that are tailored to the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market and larger organizations. For example, Microsoft Hosted Exchange can be integrated with archiving and user policy / content filtering products to offer a secure business messaging solution. The initial customer solution is easily extended to include other products such as Citrix, desktop backup or Microsoft SharePoint to meet additional customer needs, while maintaining the single sign-on and single user identity management across all applications.

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.

GOexchange Preventive Maintenance from Lucid8 is the only automated maintenance solution for Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007 . Designed to optimize the performance of your Exchange Servers—and the critical email, calendaring and other personal productivity tools that depend on them—GOexchange comes with powerful built-in maintenance routines that help prevent costly data loss or server failure while freeing your IT resources to focus on other things. GOexchange is painless to use and saves you time by running automatic expert preventive maintenance while you attend to more important things. Prevent Disasters: Minimize unplanned downtime and prevent disasters caused by unstable and inefficient databases. Repair Problems: Expert knowledge for Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003 is built-in to check and correct errors, warnings and more. Accelerate Performance: Databases are re-indexed and defragmented to permanently remove white space and deleted items. The end result is increased performance and stability with a compact efficient database that's 30-55% smaller.

Messageware is the world's leading provider of productivity and security solutions for Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access. Our award-winning Outlook Web Access Suite extends the power of Outlook Web Access 2007 with features such as complete integration of Outlook Web Access 2007 with desktop applications such as Microsoft Office, enhanced attachment viewing, attachment security, enhanced calendaring, and prevention of unauthorized access to OWA sessions. Founded in 1993, Messageware is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Global Exchange ISV. Thousands of the world’s most successful organizations including 15 of the Fortune 40 use Messageware’s Outlook Web Access solutions to enhance and secure their production email environment.

PROMODAG Reports is the leader of the messaging system monitoring business. It gives administrators and IT professionals detailed and summarized reports on the traffic and email content of their Exchange servers. With over 130 customized reports, easy to find and use, you can now understand the usage and trends of your Exchange organization. Using traffic reports, executive management, IT managers and administrators can perform thorough analysis on both internal and external traffic patterns. They can also generate statistics, establish the cost of email usage, and analyze the behaviour of individual users or groups either by department, distribution list, containers. Content reports enable administrators to analyze public folders and mailbox content by item types (message, delivery reports, contacts, meetings, attachments…), analyze the items number, size and age. Information store size evolution, access rights to public folders and other parameters, can also be retrieved. Decision-makers are able to base their plans, evaluate the success of their operations, justify budgets, and thus reduce the costs. Administrators can optimize the system configuration and design in response to changing traffic patterns, volume, and capacity. The combination of these features makes email traffic monitoring easy and ensures better security, higher performance, and business continuity for your organization. Promodag software doesn’t have to be installed on the exchange server; it can reside on any workstation. You can import directory and log files, manage your database, and start reporting immediately.

Quest transforms messaging information into knowledge that drives profitable business action. Ensure you have all your management requirements covered with the following Quest Intelligent Messaging tools: With Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange, organizations can reduce the cost of e-discovery in addition to providing end users with message-level data recovery services. Recovery Manager enables individual message-level items, including e-mails, appointments, tasks, contacts and attachments, to be restored from regular Exchange backups and un-mounted .edb information stores without setting up a dedicated Exchange recovery server. Quest Archive Manager controls data volumes, reduces the cost associated with storage management and quickly produces evidence for compliance purposes. Archive Manager provides everything you need to capture, index and store your messaging data. Finally with Quest MessageStats™ measure e-mail traffic, report on policy compliance, defend SLAs, trend capacity growth to ensure sufficient capacity, and assess Exchange migration readiness. MessageStats provides Microsoft Exchange reporting and analysis to assist IT managers, Exchange administrators, and business users. Optimize your messaging assets as a strategic resource and fuel the drive towards improved enterprise performance and agility with Quest Intelligent Messaging Solutions. A total solution, one which doesn’t impact your bandwidth, is simple to deploy, and intuitive to use. From migration, to high availability, to messaging information management, Quest Intelligent Messaging is the answer. Realize the potential of your corporate messaging infrastructure with Quest Intelligent Messaging Solutions.

Sirana AppAnalyzer for Exchange is a web-based reporting and analysis tool that helps Exchange administrators and IT personnel manage Microsoft Exchange usage. Through an extensive list of pre-defined, automated reports, AppAnalyzer displays comprehensive usage data about your Exchange servers, including message traffic analysis, message delivery times, historical and current mailbox and public folder storage data, OWA usage, chargeback information and message content analysis. Leveraging the power of Microsoft's SQL Server and SQL Analysis Services, AppAnalyzer provides unmatched scalability and flexibility for analyzing and understanding your Exchange infrastructure – without the need to install an additional agent on your Exchange servers.

Folder Permissions Manager allows administrators to centrally manage all permissions on mailbox folders and public folders on Exchange 2007, 2003, and 2000. Folder permissions can be listed and changed manually, or using templates with permissions settings created using the built-in wizard. Permissions can be applied to any number of mailboxes and folders at the click of a button. Implement and maintain permissions policies, support users in maintaining permissions, support solutions that require specific permissions on specific folders, and more. Symprex also offers a number of other software add-on solutions for Exchange Server to improve administration, compliance and collaboration. Our products cover areas such as automatic signatures and disclaimers on all e-mails merged with contact information from Active Directory, managing out-of-office settings and messages for users and groups, configuring auto-archiving for all users, spam filtering, group calendaring and resource booking for Outlook and OWA, and more.

Trinity Consulting provides multi-tiered support and remote management and monitoring service offerings for all aspects of your local or global messaging environment. Many clients have chosen to transfer day-to-day administration and operational procedures to Trinity with the goal of relieving their messaging administrators and free them up to focus on other IT initiatives. Trinity relies on proven technologies such as Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to remotely monitor Exchange Server and ancillary messaging components. This lets us provide 24x7 monitoring and alerting for real-time problem resolution to assist organizations’ high availability goals. Additionally, Trinity may use proprietary tools to assess performance and provide vital information to client’s key people. Our tools provide real-time and historical messaging data including performance and mail usage metrics. This data is used for forecasting growth; to make architectural changes; to ensure optimal performance and operations of messaging infrastructure servers.