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How SAMTech Can Assist You to Migrate to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Using tested best practices, SAMTech's professional engineers can help you to design and implement an effective in-place upgrade strategy that avoids productivity disruption, lowers long-term maintenance costs, and makes your MS Exchange 2003 solution simpler to manage. For complicated multi-server or multi-site migrations, SAMTech has the experience to finish your move on schedule and within your budget. SAMTech's Exchange help, repair, and consulting services include expertise on the integration of third-party enhancements that are best aligned to your business goals.

Advantages of Upgrading from Exchange Server 2K
Exchange Server 2003 offers improvements in functionality over Exchange 2000 Server in strategic areas such as disaster recovery, performance, protection, mobility, team computing, and simplicity of management.

• Exchange 2003 Server offers enhanced recovery by adding the capability of eight-node clustering, cluster failover speed enhancements, support for mount points which overcome the 24-drive designation limit, standard storage area network (SAN) connectivity, Volume Shadow Copy Service for database backup, a Mailbox Recovery Center utility, and a Restore Storage group.
• MS Exchange 2003 Server enhances performance via features that include /3GB and /USERVA startup switches for tuning the allocation of use of memory and memory address space, public folder store replication improvements, distribution list caching enhancements, and control of Out of Office messages.
• Security improvements offered by MS Exchange Server 2003 include Internet Protocol security (IPSec) support for front- and back-end clusters, signed Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) requests to Microsoft Active Directory, front-end and back-end Kerberos validation, IIS 6.0 security, restriction of distribution lists to authenticated users, real-time Safe and Block data, download filtering, attachment restrictions in Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access (OWA), and public folders permissions improvements for unknown users.
• MS Exchange 2003 Server includes better support for remote and mobile users by adding an Outlook Web Access (OWA) user interface (UI) and a more extensive feature set for Web Outlook client, Outlook 2003 speed enhancements through MAPI compression, HTTP compatibility from Outlook 2003, cHTML and HTML mobile phone browser capability, plus up-to-date synchronization of notifications for Pocket PCs.
• Manageability and service are simplified by centralizing queues on a per-server system, improving the user interface (UI), revealing all system queues, enabling cookie authorization, utilizing Exchange System Manager to move queue data, including a multiple-client Move Mailbox function, and providing dynamic distribution lists, public folder Send hierarchy, and public folder affinity to manage referrals.