Winter Consolidated Server Deployment Guide for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5 Philippe Maurent Principal Consultant Microsoft EMEA / Communication Sector

Agenda Introduction Technical Overview Required Components, Optional Components Architecture, Server Roles Platform Capacity Sample Control Panel

Introduction to the Consolidated Server Deployment Guide Scaled down version of Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) version 3.5 Reduces initial investment while providing features of full HMC 3.5 platform Limited to 1,000 users on base platform Planning guide provides guidance on how to grow the platform to increase capacity Architecture designed for minimum number of servers No redundancy or high availability features Full HMC 3.5 platform architecture designed for redundancy and high availability

Consolidated Server Deployment Guide contents Documentation Consolidated Server Planning Guide Consolidated Server Deployment Guide Consolidated Server Sample Control Panel Users Guide Sample Control Panel Source code included Technical Support for the Control Panel  The sample Control Panel for the Consolidated Server platform is not a supported Microsoft application. However, Microsoft will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide assistance if you need technical help installing and troubleshooting the application. Available to download from: ging.mspx ging.mspx

Platform Features A segmented network configuration for enhanced security Hosted messaging with rich services, calendaring, scheduling, and mobile device synchronization Automated configuration of components and environment settings during deployment Automated provisioning of customers organizations and users Monitoring and reporting on the health of your system environment Advanced firewall and traffic filtering services (optional) Hosted customer team sites using Microsoft ® Windows SharePoint ® Services (optional) Hosted instant messaging services using Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 (optional) In addition, a sample Control Panel has been created specifically for the Consolidated Server Platform to automate a variety of administrative and operational tasks performed when running the platform

Technical Overview Required Components Optional Components Architecture Server Roles Platform Provisioning Deployment Overview Platform Capacity

Required Components ComponentTechnology Centralized Management Microsoft Active Directory ® service Hosted ExchangeMicrosoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 Service ProvisioningMicrosoft Provisioning System (MPS) MonitoringMicrosoft Operations Manager (MOM) ReportingMicrosoft SQL Server ™ 2000 Reporting Services

Optional Components ComponentTechnology Windows SharePoint Services Hosting Windows SharePoint Services Live Communications Server 2005 Hosting Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 firewall ISA Server 2004

Architecture

Server Roles 4 or 5 Servers Deployments of HMC version 3.5 Server NameRoles AD01Active Directory domain controller BE01 Exchange back-end Live Communications Server back-end FE01 Exchange front-end Provisioning Web front-end Live Communications Server Access Proxy Web hosting Web server (WEB01) External DNS MPSSQL01 MPS Engine MPS SQL Server (SQL Server 2000) Live Communications Server SQL Server (SQL Server 2000) Data Hosting SQL Server (SQL Server 2000) Windows SharePoint Services SQL Server (SQL Server 2000) MOM 2005 Server MOM 2005 SQL Server (SQL Server 2000) SQL Server Reporting Services COLLAB01 (Optional)Windows SharePoint Services front-end (COLLAB01)

Deployment Overview Deployment procedures reference HMC version 3.5 deployment Follow procedures in HMC version 3.5 documentations Exceptions are noted Requires that you have HMC version 3.5 solution documentation and installation software available from the following link:

Platform Provisioning Includes the same Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) components as the full HMC version 3.5 solution Also includes a fully featured and customizable Sample Control Panel Sample Control Panel is built on top of the same Web services as HMC version 3.5

HMC version 3.5 Web Services Integration and Dependencies Integrated with HMC version 3.5 Web Services ASP.NET sample code calls Web methods that expose selected public procedures of MPS Namespaces shipped with the HMC version 3.5 solution Dependencies Hosted Exchange Namespace and Web Service Exchange Resource Manager Namespace and Web Service Windows-based Hosting Namespace and Web Service Hosted Exchange Mobility Namespace and Web Service Hosted CDI Namespace and Web Service Managed Active Directory Namespace and Web Service Managed Hosting Namespace and Web Service

Platform Capacity Consolidated Server platform can host up to 1,000 users with a typical usage profile defined as: 80 percent Concurrency (800 connections active at the same time) 100 Business Organizations  Each with one Global Address List, one Offline Address List, and one Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) domain 60 percent Outlook 2003 (RPC over HTTPS) 40 percent OWA Adding Capacity Consolidated Server Planning Guide provides details on adding additional capacity to the platform in order to host additional users and organizations

Sample Control Panel Overview Sample Control Panel Features Sample Control Panel Pages - Examples Customizing the Sample Control Panel

Sample Control Panel Features FeatureDescription Simplified Active Directory navigation Bread crumb navigation enables you to quickly browse Active Directory levels, moving from reseller organizations to customer organizations to customer users. Delegated administration Service providers can enable reseller and customer organization representatives to perform administrative tasks while keeping them within their organizational boundaries. Branding customization Control Panel text and images can be modified for branding or other purposes. Enable, disable, and add user controls (plug-ins) You can control which services and user settings are enabled and viewable in the Control Panel through XML file editing.

Sample Control Panel Pages Logon page Form-based logon page Active Directory browser The page displays one of three levels of Active Directory information depending upon your current context and administrative role:  A service provider administrator views reseller organizations  A reseller administrator views customer organizations  A customer administrator views customer users Create a new organization Create a new organization based on your current Active Directory context Create new user Create a new user based on whether you are at the reseller or customer level Account Settings This page allows you to add/modify/delete settings for the currently selected user or organization Services This page allows you to add/modify/delete services for the currently selected organization

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Customizing the Services and Account Settings Service and Account plug-ins can be enabled or disabled Text labels can be modified

Customizing the Sample Control Panel Interface You can change the graphics, colors, and text applied to the Control Panel to meet your branding requirements UI ElementFile Location and NameDescription ImagesMPSWeb\Images Replace existing image files with your own Colors and stylesMPSWeb\CSS\Main.css Edit the.css file to change background colors and other styles Field LabelsMPSWeb\XML\Content.xml Edit the content inside the XML tags to change the UI text

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© 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.