Case Studies About Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

With Exchange Server 2007, Lifetime will eliminate its current voice mail system and provide the foundation required for a unified communications environment that excludes desktop phones.

Tracy School District deployed Exchange Server 2007 with unified messaging capabilities and has experienced better communication and more efficient management.

The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General has experienced simpler administration and more efficient management and predicts that the improved mobile access, calendaring, and information storage capabilities will increase employee productivity.

By taking advantage of the enhanced features of Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access and the new Unified Messaging capabilities in Exchange Server 2007, Guardian is giving employees unfettered real-time access to calendar, e-mail, and voice mail messages.

Del Monte decided to deploy Exchange Server 2007. Users appreciate the new, full-featured Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access interface, the ease of connecting with their wireless devices, and the expected fourfold increase in mailbox size.

Banque du Luxembourg migrated its 650 employees to the new solution and trained them on how to use it. Now, employees can easily access messages anytime, anywhere, and on nearly any device, improving productivity.

As one of Europe's busiest airports, e-mail is a mission-critical technology for the Vienna International Airport. In order to keep their e-mail flying smoothly despite increasing threats from viruses and spam, the airport is deploying Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server throughout the enterprise.

The School District of Philadelphia chose Exchange Server 2007 to support the messaging infrastructure, because the application provides features that meet requirements for content filtering and journaling-and facilitates high levels of availability, scalability, and manageability.

Koehler calls Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server 2007 a “strategic” choice that will allow it to upgrade confidently and eliminate third-party security products-crucial given e-mail’s mission-critical importance to Koehler and the company’s small IT staff.

"By filtering spam, viruses, and oversized attachments before they arrive at our network, we estimate that we’re freeing one-third of our bandwidth. That improves performance and saves thousands of dollars a year."
-- Adam Bresson, Corporate IT Manager, Montgomery and Co.

After deploying the EHS spam- and virus-filtering and message-archiving solutions, Allen Matkins was able to reduce spam-related costs by $400,000, or $200 per user per year; reduce IT support calls by 4 percent; and reduce junk mail by 95 percent.

Exchange Hosted Continuity gave 3D/I an easy-to-deploy, user-friendly solution to ensure that employees companywide had uninterrupted access to communications even if the worst had come to pass.

RSM EquiCo Capital Markets subscribed to the Microsoft® Exchange Hosted Archive service and easily passed two audits within three months-the NASD audit and a surprise audit by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Later, when the firm needed to retrieve e-mail messages for a legal suit, the process was smooth and painless.

As a result of implementing the EHS spam-filtering solution, Carlyle has dramatically cut its unsolicited e-mail, resulting in reduced operating costs and time savings for the IT department. Also, because the firm's investment professionals no longer have to spend their time deleting spam messages, they have been able to increase their productivity.