Delivering an Messaging Solution Progressive designs an end to end messaging solution for India’s Leading Engineering and Construction Company.
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ne of the leading Engineering and Construction company in India, head quartered in North India wanted to have a centralized operation center from where it can operate across all across its locations in India, with latest messaging solution.
In Brief Challenge One of India's Leading Engineering & Construction Company wanted to deploy a centralized messaging solution which can address their all end to end messaging needs with secure transfer of information across all branches.. Since the client is major giant in Engineering and Construction in India, this was as an esteemed project for us. Solution e provided an integrated Progressive solution with by setting up their head quarter as a centralized data center operating all administration activities from one place and migration from Exchange 2003 to 2010 & AD 2003 to 2008. Also provided Disaster recovery, on top of Microsoft Virtualization technologies messaging solution Benefits The solution delivers high availabilitty, business continuity against any disaster. Also with centralized data center & administration, operational cost is reduced and transfer of information is more secured and structured with Microsoft Hyper-V V Virtualization Solution for Deploying Exchange 2010.With With its new solution based on Exchange Server 2010, Company has increased flexibility, efficiency, and control. It also expects to reduce long-term term storage costs by 15 percent, cut recovery time by 20 percent,
Enhances Agility and Efficiency With Exchange Server 2010, employees have seamless access to messaging tools and data from a single inbox. “From a collaboration standpoint, everything our users do starts with e-mail,” e says Evans. “And with the new features in Exchange Server 2010, productivity tivity will go up across the company. It provides a portal that integrates tools like e-mail, e IM, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM so that information flows more easily. Employees also get the same experience regardless of where they ey are or what device they are using.” Administrators can easily update the solution to meet users’ needs. For example, employees will no longer have to struggle to maintain a small mailbox to meet system limitations. “In the past, creating a 2-GB 2 mailbox x for a large number of employees was too expensive,” Evans says. “With Exchange Server 2010, we can quickly set up large mailboxes for all of our employees without making drastic changes in architecture and storage.” Boosts Control and Compliance Today, employees have greater control over e e-mail. “New capabilities in Exchange Server 2010—from 2010 MailTips to end-to-end end Message Tracking—are Tracking big deals to us,” explains Evans. “We're an Engineering institution, so it's all about how fast we can exchange information. formation. Sometimes employees need to know when an e-mail mail message gets to its destination, and today they can do that on their own.”
Cuts Recovery Time by 20 Percent The company can also increase system stability and recover more quickly from outages. Databases are no longer associated with a specific server computer; instead, they are spread across server computers in Database Availability Groups, which improves resilience. In addition, having multiple database copies reduces the time required to recover from a failure—or the recovery time objective (RTO).
Leveraging Microsoft Expertise Microsoft’s Active directory 2008 & Exchange server 2010 are well known for its robust solution. With a complex exchange & AD infrastructure it was a very tough challenge to integrate all branches through a centralized data center by keeping the downtime to minimum and zero tolerance in data security. All the servers including AD, exchange server with high availability, deployed on the Microsoft virtualization environment (Hyper-v).
Increases IT Productivity by 30 Percent The new solution is more stable and easier to manage, so the IT staff has fewer issues to resolve. Setting up remote access for employees has also become less complex because IT administrators no longer have to set up VPN access or configure multiple applications for e-mail and IM. “By taking advantage of Outlook Web App, employees can start being productive from new locations almost immediately A New End to End Solution The Engineering and Construction giant wanted to have centralized messaging & disaster recovery solution with a secured & robust system for transmitting digital information. Progressive came up with a solution constitutes of high availability & security of information. The entire solution provided the end to end resolution for all their needs. Progressive's solution constitutes of setting up a centralized data center, well connected with all their branch locations. The up gradation to Windows Active Directory 2008 & Exchange 2010 were suggested over existing AD & Exchange for making simplified network & administration. The Company chose to go with this solution as it was convinced by Progressive’s technical expertise. This was a prestigious project as one of the leading Engineering and Construction Company of the country chose Progressive to deliver end to end messaging solution for them.
Highlights
Progressive highlights following points during the deployment of Servers •
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Prepare test lab setup according to scenario before going to start implementation in production. Make a Proper plan to do cross forest migration with Customer. Merge two different Active directory forests into new created forest Users, Groups and Password Migrated through ADMT tools. Installation and configuration of Hyper-V Virtual machine. Installation and configuration of Exchange DAG on Hyper-V virtual machine Cross forest migration of Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange server 2010.
vided the Flexibility & The system provided Efficiency for controlling the entire administrative task from a single location through a dedicated link facility— Solution Architect, Progressive
The Messaging Solution Active Directory Migration from 2003 to 2008: For a centralized entralized active directory for all locations Windows ows 2008 Server OS & Exchange 2010 Cluster Server: A consolidated DAG cluster based Exchange helps in as a centralized domain controller for Emails Exchange 2010 servers (Two): For redundancy & load sharing of CAS/HT roles
Centralized exchange & Load balancing with disaster recovery boosted the availability of system and downsized the operational cost since all the administrator related activities were now be taken care from a single location. Also, with HP storage and Symantec BackUp solution to rising database size controlled & taking mail backup reduced the threat of any loss of information. To make the solution more reliable, Right Management System were implemented to avoiding any threat to digital information & providing customized security levels. High Levels of Service Progressive was committed to working closely with the client to provide training aining and support to ensure that the installation and the user acceptance periods went smoothly.. Once all the systems had been setup and installed, the solution was also tested to ensure that it would perform as per the requirements. Ease of Management
Dedicated CAS server: for faster webmail & active sync.
Windows 2008 Active Directory Rights Management Services:: For content management and defined access levels for users on Emails, Documents etc.
With this solution, the client got a solution that was not only user friendly and with low operational cost, but that was also more robust. This is a critical issue for managing different sites with different architecture with high administrative cost, and Progressive’s e’s solution has been able to deliver deli that to the client.
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