Microsoft Exchange 2007 Support - Loveland, Colorado

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If you are experiencing a mission-critical, server-down situation call 877-752-1122 for immediate assistance.

About Exiis Corporation
Exiis Corporation is the nation’s premier provider for enterprise-class messaging solutions based on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server Products and Technologies. Since 1993, Exiis Corporation has been providing local and national support consulting services, starting with the initial release of Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 and continuing forward with the latest release. Our extensive experience with Microsoft Exchange Server Technologies makes us an ideal choice when local resources or current IT staff lack the experience and expertise to take your messaging environment to the next level.

Exchange Server Migrations and Upgrades
Organizations that currently have Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 looking to migrate to Exchange 2007 will need to plan for the deployment. The planning process in migrating an environment involves ensuring the existing environment is ready for a migration, and that the hardware necessary for to accept the migrated server roles is compatible. Since Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is based entirely on a 64-bit environment, there is no way to perform an “in-place” upgrade from earlier releases.

Organizations that currently have Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 looking to migrate to Exchange 2007 will need to plan for the deployment. The planning process in migrating an environment involves ensuring the existing environment is ready for a migration and that the hardware in place is ready for the migrated roles. Since Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is based entirely on a 64-bit environment, there is no way to perform an in-place upgrade from the 32-bit version of the software.

New Exchange 2007 Deployments
If your organization currently utilizes legacy POP3 mail servers, or have other messaging systems, such as Apple Macintosh Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise, Apple OS X, UNIX, Linux, and Sun Solaris;, Exiis Corporation has the migration experience and expertise to seamlessly move your users to a Microsoft Exchange 2007 messaging platform without fear of losing your valuable email messages.

Exchange 2007 Server Help and Exchange 2007 Server Support
Exiis Corporation has access in the best Microsoft Exchange Server Administrators who have experience in providing Exchange Server Help and Exchange Server Support at any level required to assist you in getting your Exchange server environment up and running the way it was designed to work. Regardless of your situation, you can rest assured our administrators can assist you in everything from a miss-configured component, to routing rules created by Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA), to complete backup and restore after a disaster and recovery process has taken place. Many of our in-house Exchange consultants come from large enterprise environments where they worked exclusively on supporting complex messaging systems that also included other server services, such as Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Live Communications server deployments. These diverse backgrounds bring additional skill sets to the table, providing additional support options and experience.

Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise Support Experience
Organizations that have additional requirements, such as front-end servers, bridgehead servers, and back-end servers need to prepare their migration plan very carefully. Exiis Corporation performs these types of migrations on a daily basis and has established several “Best Practice” approaches to enterprise-level migrations. Contacting an Exiis Corporation Exchange specialist assures you have the depth and breadth of experience available to you during your migration process.

Understanding Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server Roles
Implementations of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server environments have three primary layers to their architecture: the network layer, the Active Directory layer and the messaging layer. Beginning in 2007, Microsoft introduced Exchange Administrators and Organizations to a new, secure messaging platform designed on the concept of server “roles”. Server roles allow organizations to deploy a more secure messaging platform while providing for the flexibility to upgrade, expand, and off-set server load processing as the organization expands. Not all server roles can be installed on to a single server, specifically, the Microsoft Edge Transport Server, which requires its own hardware to operate. Fortunately, the remaining server roles which provide the core messaging solution to smaller company’s can still be installed on to a single server, provided the messaging requirements are small and the traffic is relatively light. The drawing below demonstrates how these new server roles are deployed in the typical enterprise environment.

Contacting Exiis Corporation
Exiis Corporation is available by calling 877-752-1122 and also by email: support@exiis.net. The company’s business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM Eastern Standard Time to 8:00 PM Pacific Standard time.

For more information about planning your hardware for Exchange 2007, see Planning Your Server and Storage Architecture.

 Operating System

This section describes the operating system requirements for Exchange 2007 SP1 and Exchange 2007 RTM.

Operating System Requirements for Exchange 2007 SP1

The following table lists the required operating system and Windows components for Exchange 2007 SP1.

 

PART 47

 

Managing Exchange 2003 Settings in a Coexistence Environment

Applies to: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Topic Last Modified: 2007-03-27

This topic explains how and where to manage Exchange 2003 features and settings in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2003 coexistence scenario.

 Administrative Differences

Exchange 2003 uses Administrative Groups to organize Exchange objects for the purposes of delegating permission to manage those objects. Exchange 2007 does not use Administrative Groups as a logical management unit for administrative delegation. However, to support coexistence between Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, all Exchange 2007 servers are automatically included in a single Administrative Group when Exchange 2007 is installed. This Administrative Group is recognized in the Exchange System Manager of earlier versions of Exchange as Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT). Administrative groups are not displayed in the Exchange Management Console in Exchange 2007.

Caution:

Do not move Exchange 2007 servers out of Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) and do not rename Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) by using a low-level directory editor. Exchange 2007 must use this administrative group for configuration data storage. We do not support moving Exchange 2007 servers out of Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) or renaming of Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT).

 Exchange System Manager Features

In Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 coexistence scenario, the following functionality applies to the Exchange System Manager:

• You cannot use Exchange System Manager to manage Exchange 2007 features. You can use only the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange Management Shell.
• You can delete or remove Exchange 2003 features by using the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange Management Shell, but you cannot create Exchange 2003 objects. However, some Exchange 2003 objects can be edited from Exchange 2007.

For more information, see Planning for Coexistence.

Organization Settings

The following table lists organization settings for Exchange System Manager and where you should manage them. In some cases, you can edit Exchange 2003 features from both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. Any feature name changes are displayed in the "Exchange 2007 Equivalent Name" column. If the name has not changed, or if the feature has been deprecated, the field contains "NA".

Exchange 2003 Feature	Exchange 2007 Equivalent Feature Name	Can be administered from Exchange 2007	Can be administered from Exchange 2003	Comments
Delegate Control	NA	No	Yes	Delegation control rights for Exchange 2003 must be administered in Exchange 2003.
Internet Mail Wizard	NA	No	Yes	In cases where an Exchange 2007 Edge Transport server is identified, this feature will not work.
Stop Public Folder Content Replication	NA	Yes	Yes	Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and later will use this setting.

Global Settings

The following table lists Exchange 2003 features in the global settings of Exchange System Manager and where you should manage them in an Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 coexistence scenario. In some cases, you can edit Exchange 2003 features from both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. Any feature name changes are displayed in the "Exchange 2007 Equivalent Name" column. If the name has not changed, or if the feature has been deprecated, the field contains "NA".

Exchange 2003 Feature	Exchange 2007 Equivalent Feature Name	Can be administered from Exchange 2007	Can be administered from Exchange 2003	Comments
Internet Message Format	Remote Domains	Yes	Yes	This feature is directly replaced by the Remote Domains feature in Exchange 2007. The feature can be managed from either version of Exchange. However, after they have been edited by Exchange 2007, the object is considered upgraded and cannot be edited by Exchange 2003.
Message Delivery Properties - Sender Filtering, Recipient Filtering	Sender Filtering and Recipient Filtering	No	Yes	The Exchange 2003 global message delivery settings are replaced by new entries in Exchange 2007. These settings are managed in the Exchange Management Console on an Edge Transport server or in the Exchange Management Shell on a Hub Transport server.
Message Delivery Properties - Connection Filtering	IP Allow List, IP Block List, IP Allow List Providers, IP Block List Providers	Yes	No	The Exchange 2003 global message delivery settings are replaced by new entries in Exchange 2007. These settings are managed in the Exchange Management Console on an Edge Transport server or in the Exchange Management Shell on a Hub Transport server.
Intelligent Mail Filter — Gateway Blocking Threshold	Edge Transport Server Content Filtering - Actions	No	Yes	Exchange 2003 stores the Intelligent Mail Filter threshold and action configuration in a different location than Exchange 2007. Therefore, each Exchange server's threshold actions must be maintained separately as two independent settings.
Intelligent Mail Filter Store Junk E-Mail Configuration settings	Set-OrganizationConfig SCLJunkThreshold	Yes	Yes	This property can be maintained from either Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2003.
Sender ID Filtering	NA	No	Yes	There is no interoperability of this feature. Exchange 2003 objects must be maintained in Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 objects must be maintained in Exchange 2007.
Mobile Services	NA	No	Yes	In Exchange 2007 Outlook Mobile Access, Always-up-to-date (AUTD) System Management Server SMS, Exchange ActiveSync, and DirectPush have been moved into each of the respective sections in the Exchange Management Console for the Client Access servers. Exchange 2003 objects must be maintained by Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 objects must be maintained in Exchange 2007.

Recipients

The following table lists where you should change Exchange System Manager recipient features in an Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 coexistence scenario. In some cases, you can edit Exchange 2003 features from Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. Any feature name changes are displayed in the "Exchange 2007 Equivalent Name" column. If the name has not changed, or if the feature has been deprecated, the field contains "NA".

 

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