How to Grow Your Business In a New Region with Exchange

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Remote Offices provide a unique challenge to IT departments. The business units need the IT Department to deliver the same level of collaboration and tools enjoyed by users at the main offices.

Remote offices can be anywhere, in high streets of major towns and cities; they could be on major construction sites, or even in emerging markets. Usually remote office locations do not enjoy the luxury of being able to host lots of servers. They certainly don't enjoy the benefit of having fully skilled IT staff on site. How do you deliver IT services in these environments?

Virtualization provides a solution to these challenges. The ability to deliver virtualized server environments to remote users solves two key issues. First that all users, regardless of location, can have access to the applications they need. The second is that management of these services and the applications that interact with them can be managed from the datacenter. Updates can be applied easily to the central location, licenses can be controlled and the amount of data crossing the internet can be reduced drastically. To connect to these resources a user simply needs an internet connection.

Microsoft Exchange Server can be virtualized to provide each office a secure, managed email and calendaring environment. The steps on this page shows you how to you can deliver Exchange collaboration solutions to new locations as your business requires.

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Microsoft Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments
Learn the terminology and best configuration practices for using Exchange with Hyper-V.

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Understanding Remote Desktop Services
TechNet Library explains how RDS extends hosted services to remote users.

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Exchange Virtual Labs
Six Exchange 2010 virtual labs give you a live environment for learning, before you touch your own systems.

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Planning for High Availability and Site Resilience with Exchange 2010
The TechNet Library steps through hardware, storage, network and other requirements.

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The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Exchange 2010
Forrester Consulting lays out the ROI and productivity impact of Exchange in this white paper.

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Installing Remote Desktop Session Host Step-by-Step Guide
Work through the process of creating Active Directory domains, install RD Session Host and testing.

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Download Windows Server 2008 R2
Get the evaluation version of Windows Server 2008 R2.

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Licensing Microsoft Server Products in Virtual Environments
Learn when and how to add the licenses you need to run Exchange 2010 in a virtual environment.

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Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide to Remote Desktop Services
Download this comprehensive solution planning toolset.

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Hands-on Lab: What’s New in Microsoft ExchangeServer 2010
This Microsoft Learning lab walks through the configuration and testing of Exchange 2010 administrative tools.

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Connect with IT Pros Deploying Exchange 2010
TechNet Forums is your link to an IT community working on Exchange 2010 deployment.

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Best Practices Analyzer for Remote Desktop Services
Guidelines and tools for ensuring your organization is applying best practices with virtualized Exchange services.

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Understanding Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery
TechNet explains how to setup server backup and recovery as part of a comprehensive protection plan.

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Learn about Scripting for Remote Desktop Services
The Scripting Guys, from TechNet Blogs, provide free scripts and guidance for RDS tuning.

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Understanding Exchange Performance
Get to know all the variables that can affect your system, including user configuration, architecture and hardware.

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Find an Microsoft Exchange Partner
Sometimes you’ll need outside help. Here’s where to find Microsoft Certified assistance.

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Virtualization Counters
Learn about counters, a critical monitoring and performance tuning tool for virtualized applications and servers.

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Exchange Hosted Services
Microsoft’s hosted Exchange services can be more efficient or easier to use in many situations.

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Join the TechNet Forums Discussion on Exchange 2010
Connect with IT pros dealing with the same challenges as you.

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Understanding Domain Security
Explore a set of functionality that simplifies secure communication with external business partners.

 

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