EXCHANGE SERVICE UPDATE DECEMBER 2, 2008 ISC Networking & Telecommunications
Overview of Service Availability Report Rates Roadmap Q&A Agenda
Overview In production since July Windows servers in 3 campus data centers 2 TB of mailbox storage Data replicated in Levy and Nichols campus data centers
Overview Over 2,800 users About 230 BlackBerry handhelds About 295 ActiveSync handhelds Default quota is 250 MB (more than 800 users purchased higher quota)
Service Review Target: 99.5% (43 hours, 48 minutes) Exchange: 99.99% (3 minutes, 30 seconds) BlackBerry: 100% Averaged across multiple servers/services
Remedy Cases SLA: 24 hour response Since October, 45 cases Shortest: 23 minutes <24 hours to resolve 36% of cases Longest: 16 days (response, complexity, vendor escalation)
Rates No change to base price since July 2007 New rate for FY10 – No higher than $9.50/user/month (up from $7.50) Additional storage: $1.25/250MB/month (up from $1) Quota over 1 GB - $50 onetime setup fee All future migrations charged T&M
Market Rate Stanford - $12/month Columbia - $21/month Outsourced - $0-12/month depending on features and quota
Short-term (0-3 months) Medium-term (4-12 months) Long-term (>1 year) Roadmap
Zimbra Free/busy November - Zimbra GAL Changes December - Internal ISC Pilot February - Zimbra GAL sorting to [Lastname, Firstname] March - General Availability
Mobile Devices December - PDA policy review 6 characters to 4 characters
SP1 Rollup 5 Late January - Upgrade Service startup fixes OWA blank page fixes Missing recurring calendar items in OWA view
Future Investigate Sharepoint Recommend a hosting provider Manage service of a hosted provider Run Sharepoint centrally Investigate brick-level backups
Q&A
Q&A - Customers Current - Purge Junk mail every 14 days Goal - Also purge deleted items every 14 days Goal - Deleted accounts max grace of 6 months
Q&A – Your topics Self-service disabling of POP/IMAP by user or group? Can we allow server-side address books by groups/schools/divisions? Can we allow server-side distribution lists? Can we pull LN, FN, and MI from PCOM? Can we sort GAL by LN, FN?
Q&A – Your topics What are best practices for Outlook cached/online mode? What's the behavior for device remote wipe? Do SD cards get cleared after a remote wipe? What is the behavior of large mailboxes? Can account management help with PDA policy compliance? Are we considering offering Sharepoint?
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