The Customer infrastructure is distributed across multiple locations; primary site, backup site and remote offices in Egypt and in different countries, serving 1000+ users
This project objective is to design and deploy a scalable, highly available, secure messaging infrastructure based on Microsoft Exchange 2010 and to consider proper coexistence with Microsoft Exchange 2003 current environment, moving forward to a full migration to Exchange 2010.
This strategic decision had been taken by the customer in order to be able to implement the new features of Exchange 2010 especially high availability new technologies, site resilience, unified messaging, and to achieve greater mail security.
Objectives
Business Objectifies:
- Ensure that viruses will not disturb users productivity
- Spam will be reduced as much as possible
- Ability to archive mail messages without impacting overall messaging cost
- Achieve the highest possible availability and the minimum down time for exchange services
- Site wide disaster recovery with full functionality
- Ability to host 900 mailboxes with 15% growth
IT Objectifies:
- Centralized management and administration of all exchange servers
- OWA clients to have the same functionality as the Outlook client
- Simplified exchange high availability techniques for enhanced operation
- Enhanced support and improved security for Smartphone and Windows Mobile devices
- Secure messaging system with minimum operational burden
- Better mailbox recovery tools and Exchange Server-specific management tools that can be used to centralize and simplify the management
- Secure and stable firewall and protection services
- Smooth backup and restore operation
Near to 10 years in the IT service delivery, and since 2013, I have managed 25 experts and with them, we delivered 700 successful projects, through 10k Man days of service, added to $100M hardware to draw a 700 beautiful IT infrastructure architecture. Experience and result-oriented approach, side by side with professionalism and team-work achieved a strong track record in developing and implementing successful strategic business plans, demonstrating a strong technical, leadership, business, communication, presentation and analytical competencies.
