Leverage Akibia to Design, Enhance, Optimize, And Secure your Microsoft Environment

With companies running business-critical applications on Microsoft technology, IT organizations are challenged with ensuring their Microsoft environment is highly available, optimized, secure, scalable and well managed. Akibia’s Microsoft Consulting Services enable customers to maximize the value of their Microsoft environment.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 20 years experience delivering leading network security and data center services, Akibia is uniquely suited to help you assess, plan, design, implement, migrate, secure, enhance and support your Microsoft infrastructure.

Akibia’s areas of Microsoft expertise include the following:

• Microsoft Infrastructure & Active Directory
• Microsoft Messaging
• Management
• Security
• Business Desktop

Microsoft Infrastructure & Active Directory Services

Whether you are looking to plan and implement the optimal Active Directory environment, maximize the performance of your current deployment, upgrade to Windows Server 2003/2008, or migrate from another operating system platform – Akibia’s extensive Microsoft experience working with enterprise customers, our proprietary methodology based on industry-leading best practices, and our commitment to delivering the highest standard of service will ensure the best possible results.

• Active Directory Design, Implementation & Optimization Services:
  An effectively designed Active Directory environment results in enhanced performance, reliability, manageability and security. Akibia’s approach to creating an Active Directory infrastructure leverages our expertise in Microsoft, security and mission-critical data center infrastructure, as well as our broad industry experience. Our consultants will help you assess your current architecture, custom-design a scalable Active Directory solution that aligns with your goals, and optimize your current AD infrastructure.



• Windows Server 2003/2008 Services:
  For companies with disparate operating systems that are looking to standardize on a common platform, or are running an older version of Windows Server, Akibia provides expert Windows Server 2003/2008 Design, Upgrade, Migration and Optimization Services. Whether you’re running Windows NT/2000, Novell Netware, or another operating system, Akibia will help you successfully migrate your current environment to Windows Server 2003/2008.

Microsoft Messaging

Akibia’s Professional Services team has extensive experience helping clients architect, implement and optimize their Exchange environment and Microsoft Messaging platform. Whether you are looking to realize the benefits of integrating voice with Unified Messaging and Communications by upgrading to Exchange 2007, or are considering migrating from another messaging platform, such as IBM Lotus Notes or Novell GroupWise, Akibia’s Microsoft certified engineers will ensure you leverage all the advanced capabilities from the new Microsoft messaging architecture, while maximizing the availability and security of your environment.

Microsoft Management

• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and System Management Server (SMS) 2003:
  Akibia’s Consulting Services will help you plan and deploy Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), allowing you to monitor individual servers and firewalls from a single system, as well as Microsoft System Management Server (SMS), enabling you to effectively perform patch management, software deployment, hardware and software inventory control, remote help desk control and software metering.



• Microsoft System Center 2007:
  Microsoft’s latest family of IT management solutions, System Center 2007, enables IT organizations to simplify the management of their mission-critical Microsoft infrastructure and applications. Akibia helps clients assess, architect, implement and upgrade to System Center Operations Manager 2007 (formerly Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)), and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (formerly System Management Server (SMS)).

Microsoft Security

Akibia’s Professional Services team leverages their network security expertise and experience, as well as industry best practices to evaluate your organization’s Microsoft infrastructure for security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Our analysis includes a thorough Microsoft infrastructure assessment and review of how your organization is using PKI (public key infrastructure) and certificate services. Based on the results of the security assessment Akibia will make recommendations on how to improve the overall security of your Microsoft infrastructure - better utilizing PKI and certificate services to validate proper user authentication.

Microsoft Business Desktop

Akibia’s Business Desktop Services enable enterprises to realize the full value of Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Outlook 2007, including Microsoft’s Unified Messaging and Unified Communications technologies that improve individual employee productivity. Whether you’re planning a new infrastructure deployment or migrating from Windows XP with Office 2000/2003 to Office 2007, Akibia’s Microsoft certified engineers will ensure a seamless upgrade/migration and ensure that you are able to fully utilize all the advanced capabilities from the new business desktop architecture.