Consulting Services Available from Exiis Corporation
Since 1996, Exiis Corporation has been involved with Microsoft Exchange Server technologies—that’s over a decade of experience—from Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 to the current release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Exiis Corporation has been the industry leader in e-mail communications and collaborative solutions. As a valued Microsoft Partner, Exiis Corporation has worked closely with Microsoft on numerous beta teams, providing invaluable access to evolving technologies and Microsoft releases before they go to market. Exiis Corporation consultants participate in numerous on-going training classes, vendor seminars, and highly focused advanced training from Microsoft to ensure they are current and up-to-date with the latest in technology advancements. Our consultants bring real-world experience to the table, sharing and collaborating with organizations of all sizes from small business owners to enterprise-class infrastructures. Exposure to such a wide encompassing selection of messaging environments allows our consultants to analyze and apply the perfect solution for your e-mail environment.
Enterprise and Small Business Consulting Services
Exiis Corporation is the nation’s leader in Microsoft Exchange Server Products and Technologies. Our in-depth experience comes from a wide base of clients from many industries, organizational sizes, and professions. For small business and mid-size organizations, Exiis Corporation can assist your organization in making the move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and to begin enjoying the many benefits the server has to offer.
Enterprise organizations benefit from our vast experience and understanding of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Unified Messaging, including taking advantage of advanced application services provided by Microsoft Office Communications Server. Exiis Corporations experience designing, building, and deploying cross-forest environments, federated Instant Messaging, and in building highly reliability messaging environments with fail-over continuity features.
Solutions Based Approach
Exiis Corporation consultants take time to ask questions, listen intently, to fully understand our client’s vision. Understanding our client’s expectations and building on those expectations with additional available technologies, Exiis Corporation is able to plan and create a complete solution that is best mapped to our client’s industry, organization, and size. Building a messaging environment requires more than just hardware and software—it requires understanding how the client works, how they communicate, and how their messaging infrastructure will ultimately increase communication between vendors, partners, and customers.
Enhanced Features in Microsoft Exchange 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 continues to build and improve upon the latest innovations in e-mail connectivity, real-time Instant Messaging, and Unified Communications. New and advanced features significantly lower costs associated with mailbox management, moves, and cross-forest communications. Improved tools in the area of: Archiving, Compliance, High Availability have been added for greater ease and management.
In keeping with improved management features, Microsoft has included a vast array of additional PowerShell CmdLets. Microsoft has also listened to small business and enterprise clients by adding features to the Exchange Management Console which provides for advanced management of Exchange Server services through a friendly user interface.
Small and mid-size business owners who are considering an expansion or upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 will find that their new and improved messaging environment will be highly robust, stable, safe and secure. As small business and mid-size businesses move into the Microsoft Exchange Server space, they will find that Exchange Server 2010 will allow them plenty of room to grow, provide high-end messaging options, and will ultimately save them costs associated with any messaging platform.
Migrations – Novell GroupWise, Lotus Notes, Third-Party POP Mail
Clients with existing systems, whether it be a simple UNIX SMTP mail server, a Novell GroupWise implementation, or a Lotus Notes environment, Exiis Corporation consultants can assist in mapping existing and future business processes to a Microsoft Exchange environment. Migrations from existing messaging environments can be complex and challenging; oftentimes there are many concerns and questions regarding e-mail integrity, storage groups, security, and distribution lists. Consultants at Exiis Corporation can address these concerns and show you how we work with existing messaging systems to ensure a safe and smooth transition to a Microsoft Exchange environment.
Upgrades – Microsoft Exchange 4.0, Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, and Exchange 2003 Server Environments
Legacy Microsoft Exchange Server clients are faced with unique upgrade challenges. Depending on the version of Microsoft Exchange you are utilizing, the upgrade process could involve several steps—these steps can include several version upgrades between releases of Exchange to arrive at Exchange 2010 to simply installing a new messaging environment and providing a solution to move mail from the older release. An added challenge moving from legacy servers to Exchange 2010 are the basic hardware requirements involved—Microsoft Exchange 2010 is built entirely on 64-bit hardware and software—legacy 32-bit hardware and software platform servers are not capable of supporting Exchange 2010, requiring an upgrade. Consultants at Exiis Corporation can assist organizations and IT groups in choosing the correct hardware and software, build on existing backup processes, and assist in planning for fail-over and continuity processes.
Unified Communications
Microsoft introduced Unified Messaging Servers with Exchange 2007 Servers and continues to support the move towards Unified Communications with Exchange 2010 Server environments. At the most basic level, Unified Communications breaks down the barriers between telecom, IT, and wireless technologies providing a solution that combines all these technologies into a single solution or repository that is managed and accessed from a centralized location. Microsoft has determined the most functional and logical location for this single point of access is from within the Microsoft Outlook client. The “Universal Inbox” concept in its simplest terms means all e-mail, voicemail, instant messaging, and fax communications are delivered to and access from your desktop inbox.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft Exchange 2010 does not meet all the requirements for a complete Unified Communications environment. While Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 will deliver a large percentage of these requirements, such as integrating with IP telephony systems and delivering messages to mobile devices, Exchange 2010 does not natively provide FAX communications (Exchange 2007 Server clients should be aware of this change prior to migrating to Exchange 2010), Instant Messaging, nor real-presence information; these services are provided by third-party providers, add-on software products, and by integrating additional server technologies such as Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS).
While Microsoft Exchange 2010 may not be the complete answer to Unified Communications, it is a strong contender for providing a sufficient amount of Unified Messaging throughout the organization. Exchange 2010 is a solid choice for building the foundation towards a complete Unified Communications solution; with built-in “hooks” for developers and plenty of third-party providers developing software that fills in the gaps, Exchange 2010 provides plenty of Unified Messaging options to build upon. Exiis Corporation consultants can explain the missing gaps between a complete Unified Communications environment and Exchange 2010, provide solutions based on your organizations infrastructure and messaging requirements, and deliver a complete project plan that addresses business requirements.
Professional Documentation
Professional documentation is included with every engagement. Exiis Corporation professional project managers, system architects, and enterprise administrators work within a highly collaborative environment utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office Project Server for reporting and documentation purposes. Clients are assigned a dedicated SharePoint Team Site where they are encouraged to review, collaborate, and participate with their on-going project. Once completed, all documentation, including rough drafts, decision documents, quotes, communications and more are available 24X7 for the clients review.