Migration Services

Factsheet Microsoft Solutions 13/12/2005

Microsoft Windows Server 2003: the essential upgrade made easy

Microsoft certified gold partner To meet growing business demands, the modern organisation relies more and more upon IT. At the heart of the infrastructure, the server operating system must support an ever-increasing range of resource services. Among many other functional benefits, these services have to deliver the best possible availability, reliability and scalability, all within a secure environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is today's most secure, robust and popular server operating system. Your ideal partner to ease transition, with no loss of business continuity, is ISC: the UK's premier IT solutions provider. ISC's highly-skilled Microsoft Migration team will ensure detailed planning, design and testing of Windows Server 2003 are conducted ahead of phased implementation. Alternatively we will have an experienced Technical Architect ratify a design at planning stage and be on-hand as you implement the solution in-house.

We will also ensure you gain maximum benefit from Active Directory Microsoft's multipurpose distributed security backbone and service publishing framework via detailed structural planning, solution design and testing, and phased rollout.

Free consultancy to gauge migration benefits
Scoping workshop for migration plan document, including Active Directory design, technical & business impact analysis of migration
Estimate of schedule & explanation for each working phase
Administrators' & users' training (including official or bespoke courses onsite or offsite, floorwalkers for implementation launch)
Telephone, web, e-mail or onsite support services to ensure seamless delivery
Two-way customer partnership as little or as much support as you choose

But why move from Windows NT Server 4.0 or Windows Server 2000? The reasons lie in the many new tools, services and features of Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

Benefits of migrating from Windows NT4 Server

Security: Microsoft code accordance since 2002 with Trustworthy Computing Initiative: a long-term, collaborative effort to provide more secure, private & reliable computing experiences
Active Directory: group policies enable easy infrastructure management
Windows NT Server 4.0 incident/security hot-fix support discontinued in 2004
No single point of failure in domain controller
Scalability: new hardware & application support
Increased performance means potential server consolidation
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Terminal Services
Rights Management Services (documents lockdown)
Clustering capabilities
Volume Shadow Copy (version control & easy documents rollback)

Benefits of migrating from Windows Server 2000

Security: Microsoft code accordance since 2002 with Trustworthy
Computing Initiative: a long-term, collaborative effort to provide more secure, private & reliable computing experiences
Active Directory improved
Increased performance means potential server consolidation
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and improved Terminal Services (up to 25% more users per server)
Rights Management Services (documents lockdown)
Clustering capabilities improved
Volume Shadow Copy (version control & easy documents rollback)

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