14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is offering free guidance on how to create Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP1) services, as well as migrating existing messaging investments into the Cloud.
System integrators and service providers can download the “Building Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Cloud Services” collection of guides from the company, and get insight into how to transition from Microsoft Solution for Hosted and Messaging Collaboration (HMC) to Exchange 2010 SP1 in Hosting mode.
Customers will find both documentation as well as samples on the Microsoft Download Center, namely no less than five guides and 2 packages with additional resources.
For example, the Overview for Building a Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration Cloud Service “provides a high-level overview of the concepts and planning considerations for building a Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration Cloud Service to offer best in class services to your business customers.
“Utilizing Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to deliver these services while leveraging the multi-tenant Microsoft Active Directory model delivered by Exchange 2010 SP1 is the key to providing reliable services with a supported and predictable upgrade path from Microsoft.”
But there are more guides to take advantage of, including “Building and Migrating to Exchange 2010 SP1 Cloud Services,” “Deploy OCS 2007 R2 onto Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting,” “Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting - Conceptual Architectures,” and “Hosted WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 Migration Guide.”
These are “specific documents for deploying and migrating to Exchange 2010 SP1, SharePoint 2010, and Office Communications Server 2007 R2, with guidance on how to leverage the Exchange 2010 SP1 multi-tenant model.
“The documents that contain this guidance provide specific steps and scripts for how to migrate Active Directory objects, Mailbox, and SharePoint content from a Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5 (Exchange 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services) platform,” Microsoft added.