Client Profile
The client has over 1,200 employees and has operations spanning 13 countries in Asia Pacific. The group’s annual revenue is over US$ 450M.
Client Infrastructure
- 13 sites and each site had its own domain controller, running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server OS on single domain structure
- Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server at Singapore as bridgehead which interlinks to similar servers at the external 12 sites.
- Another site configured with different exchange organisation and domain
Client requirements
- To deploy and manage centralised domain structure
- To overcome the limitations of the older version of Exchange 5.5 mail system
- To establish common desktop environment across organisation using GPO
- To establish common GAL between two different email domains
- To achieve better performance and higher security
Solution Overview
- Fine tuning of AD site connectors in the existing Windows 2000 Domain controllers located at 13 sites
- Migration of existing Windows 2000 domain to Windows 2003 domain at HQ
- Implementation and Migration of existing DNS, WINS and DHCP services to Windows 2003 services
- Implementation of WSUS on a member server
- Migration of existing Exchange 5.5 servers to Exchange 2003 Cluster Servers at HQ
- Commissioning of 2 cluster backend servers with 4 nodes–one for special group of users and another for all other users
- Commissioning of one front-end (OWA) server
- Commissioning of two new Exchange 2003 servers with load balancing to perform as Exchange Connectors, SRS, SMTP routing
- OMA, OWA, RPC over http and IIFP which is used for GAL synchronisation with different Windows 2000 forest
- Migration of about 1,200 user mailboxes
Project Responsibilities
- Site study
- Designing and planning
- Project kick-off
- Site survey and health checkup
- Review meetings
- Issue log and solutions
- Review and update project schedule
- Proof of concept (POC)
- Pilot test
- Actual implementation
- Technical incidents reports
- Documentation, briefing
- Post implementation support
- Project signoff
Pricing Model
Project Duration
- 5 Man-months/2 Calendar months