migration project

Shieldfire · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

We are looking at migrating from FirstClass to some other communication
system that is easily integrated into EPiserver and other systems being
developed. Exchange is an obvious candidate.

What I am a bit worried about is the management costs in HR to maintain
our current network as well as the Exchangeserver. The organisation
isn't all that big;

(Currently) 4 main offices and a number of satellites
c 75 users at HQ office
c another 100-150 users worldwide
reality of bad connection to some offices (like bad power supply and low
bandwidth) and users on the road

We would also possibly need webmail access to the server.

What would your general guesstimate be of resources in means of
bandwidth to/from local offices, expertise in local office, expertise at
HQ office, number of servers and admin to manage it all from HQ.
Any suggestions on intro docs for setting up all this. and guesstimate
of time for the migration project?

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John Oliver, Jr. [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 823

I would suggest calling a Consultant who is a Microsoft Certified Partner or
Microsoft Regional Sales Office. They can assist you with any questions you
may have regarding your interest in migrating to Exchange Server. For such
a critical migration I would not start guessing at what your bandwidth
needs, among others, would be necessary without more detailed information
about your network.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2008
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Shieldfire" wrote in message @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> We are looking at migrating from FirstClass to some other communication
> system that is easily integrated into EPiserver and other systems being
> developed. Exchange is an obvious candidate.
>
> What I am a bit worried about is the management costs in HR to maintain
> our current network as well as the Exchangeserver. The organisation isn't
> all that big;
>
> (Currently) 4 main offices and a number of satellites
> c 75 users at HQ office
> c another 100-150 users worldwide
> reality of bad connection to some offices (like bad power supply and low
> bandwidth) and users on the road
>
> We would also possibly need webmail access to the server.
>
> What would your general guesstimate be of resources in means of bandwidth
> to/from local offices, expertise in local office, expertise at HQ office,
> number of servers and admin to manage it all from HQ.
> Any suggestions on intro docs for setting up all this. and guesstimate of
> time for the migration project?

Shieldfire · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

John Oliver, Jr. [MVP] skrev:
> I would suggest calling a Consultant who is a Microsoft Certified Partner or
> Microsoft Regional Sales Office. They can assist you with any questions you
> may have regarding your interest in migrating to Exchange Server. For such
> a critical migration I would not start guessing at what your bandwidth
> needs, among others, would be necessary without more detailed information
> about your network.
>
Of course I can see that. What I'm more interested in is a general idea
of resources needed to maintain the server.
When it comes to implementing this, we will of course use a consultant
with extensive Exchange experience (if we decide to use Exchange).

John Oliver, Jr. [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 823

It really depends on how many servers. One centralized server would make
things easy to manage if you have no Admin staff at the other offices. Now,
with the slow links at some Offices it might be necessary to stick an
Exchange Server at those offices or use Outlook Anywhere if they can work
offline, but it really depends on how critical email is at the sites if they
have no access to it for a period time. Exchange 2007 Server is very robust
messaging system and can accomodate any size network. With that being said,
reading up on Exchange 2007 Server Roles and placement of these would be
helpful in your implemenation. This a general response to your question
that I can give. Others may chime in but at least it gives you some general
idea.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2008
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Shieldfire" wrote in message
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> John Oliver, Jr. [MVP] skrev:
>> I would suggest calling a Consultant who is a Microsoft Certified Partner
>> or Microsoft Regional Sales Office. They can assist you with any
>> questions you may have regarding your interest in migrating to Exchange
>> Server. For such a critical migration I would not start guessing at what
>> your bandwidth needs, among others, would be necessary without more
>> detailed information about your network.
>>
> Of course I can see that. What I'm more interested in is a general idea of
> resources needed to maintain the server.
> When it comes to implementing this, we will of course use a consultant
> with extensive Exchange experience (if we decide to use Exchange).

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