Exchange Server Support in Milton Keynes
Love it or hate it Email is with us to stay and is an essential tool for most businesses in the modern world. Making the most of Email however can be difficult. That is where we can help by setting up and configuring your Microsoft Exchange server and Microsoft Outlook clients so that you get the best email experience and your email can become a valuable tool and asset to your business.
As a local business based in the Milton Keynes area we are perfectly placed t0 respond to any problems you experience with your Microsoft Exchange Server either remotely or if needed with a quick site visit. Nothing can debilitate a business as quickly as a loss of email services and down time costs money.
Harnessing the full power of exchange server frees up more of your time to concentrate on running the business. Utilising Auto Responders, Email signatures, Email groups, Spam filtering, Anti Virus protection, Microsoft hosted filtering services, TLS for message security, Transport rules, Managed Folders, Clustering, PowerShell Commandlets Automated Exchange Server backups will fine tune the performance of your business.
Exchange Server provides a complete messaging system that can run on a single server � meaning that all Exchange services reside on one server, as with the Microsoft Small Business Server product. However, there are significant gains in deployment, management, and security that come from having a flexible, modular system that can be installed across more than one machine. This concept was first introduced in Exchange 2000 Server, where a front-end server could be configured to proxy inbound Internet client protocols to the appropriate mailbox server. Front-end servers are optional and can reduce the load on mailbox servers and simplify Microsoft Office Outlook� Web Access (OWA) and Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) user access. Having front-end servers in medium-size and large organizations made Exchange more scalable by concentrating particular tasks on a limited number of servers. In Exchange Server 2007, role-based deployment has been expanded, allowing you to assign predefined roles to specific servers. These roles allow organizations to control mail flow, increase security, and distribute services
Exchange Server provides many end roles which can benefit your business in Milton Keynes:
- Client Access role. Similar to the front-end server in earlier versions of Exchange, this server proxies Internet client traffic to the correct mailbox server.
- Mailbox role. This role hosts user mailboxes stored in databases that can be replicated or clustered.
- Hub Transport role. This role provides internal routing of all messages � from Edge servers, Unified Messaging (UM) servers, or between two users on the same mailbox database. The Hub Transport role is also where messaging policy is enforced for messages moving within and outside the organization.
- Unified Messaging role. This role enables PBX integration to allow voice mail and fax messages delivered to Exchange mailboxes, and provides voice dial-in capabilities to Exchange Server. This role and its services are explained in more detail later in this paper.
- Edge Transport role. This server resides outside your internal network and provides on-premise e-mail security, antivirus, and anti-spam services for Exchange. Off-premise filtering can be provided by Exchange Hosted Filtering, discussed later
Exchange Server productivity
Why is it so important to embrace these tools and harness the power and flexibility they offer?
Users are becoming more and more sophisticated, and their productivity relies on their ability to find, share, and use information. Power users like these were once the exception but are now the rule. These users require centralized access to information from anywhere. With its deep integration with Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 facilitates data sharing between data sources (Exchange, SharePoint, file shares) like never before, leading to greatly enhanced productivity.
Separating employees from each other can have a major impact on productivity in most organizations. Yet with remote offices, roaming and traveling users, and organizations spread across several time zones, users are more geographically dispersed than ever before.
To bring users back together again, at least virtually, Exchange Server 2007 allows integrated access to several different sources of information using tools built for collaboration. Highlights include:
- Unified Messaging gives users anywhere access to all of their vital business communications, including e-mail, voice mail, and fax messages in desktop, mobile, web, or phone clients.
- LinkAccess allows you to access SharePoint sites and file shares through Outlook Web Access, eliminating the need to expose your internal SharePoint topology or files shares to the Internet or require a virtual private network (VPN) connection to gain access.
- Calendar Concierge refers to a set of features that simplify and automate scheduling people and resources
- Scheduling Assistant analyzes attendee and resource schedules and suggests meeting times using a color-coded user interface based on who�s available when. Users interact with it in Outlook Web Access or Outlook 2007.
- Calendar Attendant runs on the Exchange 2007 server and, without any end user interaction required, marks meeting requests as tentative on recipient calendars until users act on the request, and assures that only the latest version of calendar requests are in your mailbox.
- Resource Booking Attendant also runs on the Exchange 2007 server and, without any end user interaction required, manages resource availability and allows for resource policies such as available hours and scheduling permissions.
- WebReady Document Viewing in Outlook Web Access 2007 can transcode a variety of document types � including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and PDF files � from their native format into HTML so that they can be viewed in a client browser even if the application that created the document is not installed on the client. This allows users to be productive from almost any machine and keeps viewed documents safe, even on kiosk machines, since HTML documents are purged by Outlook Web Access at logoff or session timeout.
- Flexible Out of Office rules allow you to configure a different Out of Office rule for internal users and Internet users. Each rule can also be given a start and end date.
So if you are based in Milton Keynes or the surrounding areas please don't hesitate to give us a call to aid you with implementing Microsoft Exchange Server to give your business the productivity boost it needs to succeed.