Webinar held April 18, 2007. One hour.

Microsoft Exchange 2007 represents the most significant release of Exchange to date. In this webinar, Ferris Research presents the findings of its Exchange 2007 Implementation Survey. We also hear from industry experts who have worked hands-on with Exchange 2007.

The focus of the webinar is on implementation. Topics include premigration planning, deployment, coexistence, administration, and management.

Webinar 698.

Important Questions Addressed by This Webinar Include:

• What are the biggest implementation challenges for Exchange 2007, and what do early adopters find to be good ways to handle those challenges?
• What are the best ways to simplify deployment?
• How soon will organizations deploy the unified messaging capabilities in Exchange 2007?
• How are server roles implemented?
• What are the most useful planning resources?

Speakers

• David Sengupta, Ferris Analyst. David is a well-known analyst and an annual recipient of Microsoft’s Exchange Server MVP award since 1998. His expertise is in enterprise systems management, archiving, monitoring, diagnostics, hosting, reporting, analysis, recovery, regulatory compliance, legal discovery, enterprise information management, and enterprise content management from an electronic messaging perspective. In addition to his role at Ferris, David is the Director of Product Management for Messaging Solutions at Quest Software.
• Paul Robichaux, Principal Engineer, 3sharp. Paul is an experienced software developer and author. He has helped validate enterprise deployments for security, storage management, and scalability and has developed Exchange-related products for several major software vendors. Paul has worked on UNIX, Macintosh, and Win32 development projects and is an MCSE and Exchange MVP. He has written several books, including the Exchange Server Cookbook, the Administrator Shortcut Guide to Email Protection, and the Definitive Guide to Exchange Disaster Recovery and High Availability. Paul maintains an Exchange-themed blog at http://www.e2ksecurity.com/.
• Donald Livengood, Senior Solution Architect, HP’s Technology Leadership Group. Donald focuses on messaging and directory services and has worked on many of HP’s largest accounts. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft, HP, and other industry events and a frequent contributor to Exchange and Outlook Administrator. Donald is a Microsoft Certified Architect: Infrastructure and an HP Certified Architect. He is the co-author of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Infrastructure Design: Co-existence, Migration, and Connectivity.
• Matt Smith, Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering, Royal Bank of Scotland. Matt has more than 10 years of experience managing, architecting, and delivering complex corporate messaging systems to large enterprise organizations. He is currently responsible for delivering core Microsoft collaborative technologies into the Royal Bank of Scotland’s global investment banking division in London. As part of the Rapid Deployment Program for Exchange 2007, Matt has been involved in a large global deployment of Exchange 2007, Live Communications Server, and SharePoint 2007.

Who Is This Webinar Suitable For?

This event is suitable for IT staff, management and executives, messaging consultants and systems integrators, Exchange hosting providers, and vendor product management staff.