Exchange Migration

Can you imagine your life without e-mail? Neither can anyone else. Messaging is without a doubt one of the most business-critical applications in your environment. It is also one of the most complex to manage. Since the introduction, enterprise-messaging applications such as Microsoft Exchange have continued to evolve, adopting technological innovations to meet the ever-changing needs of users.

SupportSpread offer a complete solution to help you successfully manage and migrate your messaging environment – ensuring that your e-mail service works efficiently and at full capacity everyday, all day, even during migrations.

SupportSpread can offer solutions for assessing and executing your migration projects to Exchange 2003 from Exchange 5.5, 2000, or 2003. These powerful solutions help to ensure a seamless, migration process, providing a centralised place for project management.

Domain Migration – Migration to Active Directory

SupportSpread can offer solutions for migration from Windows NT to Active Directory (AD). These solutions efficiently manage domain splits and consolidation, update resources and user profiles, and simplify post-migration cleanup tasks. These powerful, database-centric solutions enable invisible control over enterprise-wide migrations and deliver clear-cut advantages and benefits:

Reduce Impact on Users and the Help Desk

Help to ensure an invisible migration by automating workstation profile updates. Administrators need not visit each workstation. Users need no assistance from the help desk. And since passwords are migrated, users can log on using their old passwords.

Support Uninterrupted Business Workflow

Migrated users maintain access to both NT resources and migrated resources. In addition, they can continue to access their Exchange mailboxes, SQL Server databases and other resources.

Optimize Your Active Directory Investment

You can standardize directory data with selective property migration and common name rules. AD can be populated by using an HR database, Exchange 5.5 or other data sources. And your domain can be reconfigured during the migration so that the AD design best fits your business operations.

Shorten Migration Timelines

Project length is reduced due to finely-tuned account migration and the ability to run multiple resource updating sessions in parallel.

Reduce Workloads

Scheduling automated, unattended tasks frees you up to perform other work. The project’s progress is easy to manage and track due to powerful reporting and status information available on demand.

Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity

Automation and simplified project administration minimize the migration project length and keep costs under control. Zero user disruption further assures that no downtime costs are incurred.

Deploy Active Directory in an existing environment with no
impact on the users

• Maintain passwords and access to resources
• Automatically update local/roaming profiles

Streamline the migration project for IT:

• Delegate tasks and track progress
• Move objects during normal business hours
• Schedule migration tasks to run after hours
• Eliminate calls to the help desk and visits to user workstations

Leverage Active Directory:

• Operate in native mode from the beginning
• Restructure and migrate in one step

Maintain security:

• Preserve passwords and permissions
• Rollback changes, if necessary
• Remove source accounts and SIDHistory entries

For information on Quest Migration Solutions please email: enquiries@supportspread.co.uk