Winter 2005-2006

Consolidated Server Deployment Guide for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5

Consolidated Server Deployment Guide for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5

Philippe MaurentPrincipal ConsultantMicrosoft EMEA / Communication Sector

AgendaAgenda

Introduction

Technical Overview Required Components, Optional Components

Architecture, Server Roles

Platform Capacity

Sample Control Panel

Introduction to the Consolidated Server Deployment GuideIntroduction 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 contentsConsolidated 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: http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/hostedmessa

ging.mspx

Required ComponentsRequired Components

Component Technology

Centralized Management • Microsoft Active Directory® service

Hosted Exchange • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2

Service Provisioning • Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS)

Monitoring • Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)

Reporting • Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 Reporting Services

Optional ComponentsOptional Components

Component Technology

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

ArchitectureArchitecture

Roles:· Exchange front end

· Web hosting

· External DNS

· Provisioning Web server

· Live Communication Server access proxy (optional)

Border router

PerimeterNet

FrontNet

FE01

BackNet

Roles:· Windows SharePoint

Services front end

Collab01(Optional)

Roles:· Active Directory

Domain Controller

Roles:· MPS SQL databases

· Data hosting

· Monitoring and reporting

· Monitoring and reporting SQL database

· Windows SharePoint Services back end (optional)

Roles:· Exchange back end

· Live Communication Server back end (optional)

MPSSQL01 BE01 AD01

Perimeter firewall servicesPacket and port filteringSSL terminationStateful inspectionApplication publishing

ISA01(optional)

Server RolesServer Roles4 or 5 Servers Deployments of HMC version 3.5

Server Name Roles

AD01 • Active 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 OverviewDeployment 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:

http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/hostedmessaging.mspx

Platform ProvisioningPlatform 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

Platform CapacityPlatform 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 OverviewSample Control Panel Overview

Sample Control Panel Features

Sample Control Panel Pages - Examples

Customizing the Sample Control Panel

Sample Control Panel FeaturesSample Control Panel Features

Feature Description

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 PagesSample 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

Sample Control Panel Page ExampleSample Control Panel Page Example

Sample : http://www.solutiondemo.net/MPSSampleCP/(use admin@maurent.com or admin@acme.com for login)

Customizing the Services and Account SettingsCustomizing 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 InterfaceCustomizing the Sample Control Panel Interface You can change the graphics, colors, and text

applied to the Control Panel to meet your branding requirements

UI Element File Location and Name Description

Images • MPSWeb\Images• Replace existing image files with your own

Colors and styles • MPSWeb\CSS\Main.css• Edit the .css file to change background colors and other styles

Field Labels • MPSWeb\XML\Content.xml• Edit the content inside the XML tags to change the UI text

Do you have any questions?Do you have any questions?

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