Exchange 2007 Upgrade

Description: The purpose of this project is to deploy Exchange 2007 into Ball State University's production environment. During this project we will be working to deploy new features, provide increased quotas and to create a better experience for our end users. Some new key features that will be added include: an improved Outlook Web Access experience, support for Windows Mobile 6 devices and increased security.

*Project Goals - Completed*	Date Scheduled	Status
Original Project Planning	November 15^th, 2007	Completed
Complete Server Farm Design	November 9^th , 2008	Completed
Order Servers & Exchange License	November 20^th, 2008	Completed
Deploy New Frontend Web Mail Servers	November 30^th, 2008	Completed
Internal Testing of New Environment	December 15^th, 2008	Completed

*Project Goals – Ongoing*	Date Scheduled	Status
Wide Scale Internal Testing		Ongoing
Updates to User Management System	April 2008	Scheduled
Migration of Exchange 2003 users to Exchange 2007	May 5^th - May 8^th	Scheduled

Impact to University Community: The Exchange 2007 migration project should have minimal impact on the users of the university. The Outlook Web Access experience will be noticeably different after your mailbox has been migrated to the new servers. Some of our Mac users may need to redo thier profiles in Entourage.