Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

Compiled by: Andy Scott

Summary

The purpose of this document is to explore in slightly greater depth, and in some ways, a deep dive into some of the high level considerations, processes and activities that will need to be accommodated when planning a successful, transition from an in-house implementation of Exchange 2003 Organisation. Due to the vast amount of authoritive information available on the web, and due to the need to rapidly compile a document that was comprehensive, structured and informative; I have included research material into the body of this document, and cited my sources, in accordance with standard research methods.

• An in-house transition to a cloud based messaging and collaboration solution using Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS)

• An in-house transition to a cloud based messaging and collaboration solution using Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE)

• An In-house transition to Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010.

Why hosted email?

Before we can get into the pros and cons of Google Apps and Hosted Exchange, we first have to examine why people are moving over to hosted email in the first place. I think it is safe to say that most users expect email to work ALL the time. For small companies with a small or non-existent IT department, providing a service with 99.9% uptime is fairly difficult and expensive. Anytime that there is a disruption in service, such as the