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Although we are able to design and implement nearly any type of Microsoft solution, the following are the areas in which our skills and experience make us your best choice as a partner.
Active Directory
Design, Implementation and Migration 2003, 2000, NT 4.0
What is an Active Directory Deployment?
A single, global authentication source based on Microsoft Active Directory.
It is the standardisation of network infrastructure that reduces both its complexity and cost of administration, improving reliability and security and eliminating some of the regional barriers hindering application globalisation.
Active Directory impacts performance throughout an organisation's infrastructure and can therefore be a driving force in creating a more productive, secure and reliable technology environment. By analysing the current business environment, taking hardware, software and network infrastructure inventories, and reviewing the organisations IT goals and corporate growth strategies, Comsys forms a plan for Active Directory deployment, proof of deployment testing, and post deployment monitoring.
How does the Implementation of Active Directory take place?
Comsys begins with these tasks:
 Site Survey. Examine the status quo.
Analyse current business environment.
Inventory hardware, software and network infrastructures.
Review goals and strategies.
Engage management leaders to learn the organisation's IT infrastructure, internal expansion and corporate growth strategies.
Combining the knowledge gained with solution expertise, Comsys formulates the basis for a well-architected Active Directory design and deployment that meets capacity and scalability issues key to the organisation's day to day performance and future potential.
Design phases that ensure success, Comsys performs the following:
Logical Structure.
Site topology.
Domain controller capacity.
DNS, WINS, DHCP.
Authentication strategy.
Resource authorisation strategy.
Empty forest root/or forest root domain.
Restructuring NT 4.0 domains.
Implementing a well-designed Active Directory structure facilitates, within an organisation's system, valuable integration features:
Group Policy, which enables desktop lockdown, software distribution and user, group workstation and server administration.
Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2000, NT 4.0.
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
Domain-based distributed file system (DFS).
Live Communication Server.
Integrated SharePoint Portal environment.
Past the planning and deployment: Test and Prove
Elevating Comsys’s Active Directory success record is its Proof of Deployment and Testing criteria:
Create a test plan.
Plan and design a test lab.
Design test cases.
Conduct and document tests.
Create a test plan.
Plan and design a test lab.
Design test cases.
Conduct and document tests.
And key to long-term success:
Post-deployment testing.
Post-deployment reviews.
Post-deployment testing.
Post-deployment reviews.
Exchange
Exchange Server Planning Design and Implementation 2003, 2000
Migrating to Exchange Server
E-mail systems in most organisations have evolved into business-critical operations. Messaging and directory architecture and maintenance have become increasingly complex, with organisations investing heavily in multiple-vendor solutions running on different platforms and protocols. Messaging technologies are also fast evolving into full collaboration environments and mission critical business productivity tool sets.
What are the business drivers that lead to a Microsoft Exchange Migration effort?
Stability and reliability of Microsoft Exchange 2003.
Leverage user application, server and directory capabilities.
Strengthen administrative model.
Leverage Active Directory and advanced security features.
New Microsoft Exchange Remote Messaging capabilities.
Greater Microsoft Back Office application integration capabilities. Stability and reliability of Microsoft Exchange 2003.
Leverage user application, server and directory capabilities.
Strengthen administrative model.
Leverage Active Directory and advanced security features.
New Microsoft Exchange Remote Messaging capabilities.
Greater Microsoft Back Office application integration capabilities.
More and more, enterprises view messaging infrastructure as a mission-critical application due to the value of automation and the major impact on employee productivity that can result when your messaging system goes down. Comsys assists customers throughout the move to Microsoft Exchange 2003 by working to firmly understand your business and technical requirements through the use of our proven consultative and discovery best practices.
The Migration to Exchange provides customer assurance that their new environment will scale effectively, providing:
Increased reliability and stability based on Microsoft's Exchange platform.
Lower server management costs and the opportunity for server consolidation.
Proper sizing of the migration to protect data, time and money.
Improved scalability and responsiveness.
Stricter policies and tools provide greater security against internal and external threats.
Expand server capacity quickly as business grows and evolves.
Reduced growth and support contract costs as vendors stop supporting end-of-life products.
Decreased planned and unplanned downtime.
Valuable Expertise.
Comsys Professional Services has the expertise in Microsoft technologies and multi-vendor protocols to successfully design and deploy enterprise class messaging and directory infrastructures. Comsys can assist in complete re-designs of messaging architecture, or enhancements to existing deployments through Exchange 2003 with experience that allows our Exchange solutions to reduce implementation time, cost, and risk, and maximize customer return on investment.
Comsys works collaboratively with you and your staff to design a scalable and robust strategy that includes detailed design documentation, a comprehensive validation strategy, and a mature deployment plan. Deliverables Include engineering documentation at solution component level, detailed build documentation, master project plans and often, comprehensive technical specification documents.
Focus on your objectives.
Our planning and validation services, which frequently follow the completion of an Exchange Migration Readiness Assessment and Architecture service, support your goals and objectives that may include:
Establishing a migration strategy.
Lab build-out for all testing.
Representation of customer's current and future messaging solutions.
Promoting rigid change control standards.
Validating sizing and performance assumptions.
Integrating your migration plans with your support teams.
Comsys Delivers.
Industry-leading services accompanied by documentation and guidelines that ensure successful adoption deliver:
Detailed Exchange architecture leveraging Comsys’s and Microsoft's best practices and latest technologies with buy-in from all pertinent parties.
Planning customised for migrating from messaging platforms such as Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise to Exchange 2003.
Design recommendations report.
Detailed Exchange design requirements.
Detailed hardware requirements.
Other Microsoft Capabilities
Additionally Comsys has much experience and exposure to and not limited to
SMS:
Installation and Configuration.
Deploying Clients.
Deploying Packages.
Software and Hardware Inventory.
Administrator Training.
SharePoint:
Design.
Compliance requirements.
Administrator Training.
User Training.
MOM:
installation and configuration.
Management Pack Tuning.
CRM:
Design and Planning.
Installation and configuration.
Importing data from legacy CRM systems including ACT, Goldmine, Maximiser.
Fine tuning and customisations.
Training for users and Administrators.
Dynamics GP (Great Plains):
Design and Planning.
Installation and configuration.
Comsys Australia has Technical Project Managers available specifically trained in Microsoft Technologies and Project Management Methodologies to ensure you receive the best advice and rapid delivery.
Please note only a selection of Comsys Microsoft capability has been described in this document, for further Microsoft Capability Statements please email
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