The workshop focuses on leveraging a multivendor strategy for Microsoft Exchange migration and upgrades, with sessions on the latest Exchange 2013 features, monitoring challenges, and data protection. GSX Solutions emphasizes the importance of managing performance and availability during the migration process and offers tools for monitoring and reporting on Exchange environments. Their new software version v10.7 supports Exchange 2013 and hybrid deployments, facilitating smoother transitions and improved user satisfaction.

1. Microsoft Exchange Workshop
Deploy a Multivendor
Strategy to Better
Leverage Your Exchange
Migration and Upgrade
November 2013

2. Agenda
Microsoft Session
What is new in Exchange 2013?
GSX Solutions Session
Exchange Server Performance & Report
GWAVA Session
Archiving & Compliance for Exchange
Veeam Session
Data Protection for Exchange

3. Cyril Leroy – Microsoft Specialist - GSX Solutions
EXCHANGE SERVER
PERFORMANCE & REPORTS
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4. Agenda
GSX Solutions at a glance
Why migration is never an Easy Story?
Monitoring Main Challenges during challenges
SLA Management
GSX Monitor & Analyzer
Live demonstration

5. GSX Solutions
• Founded in 1996
• Microsoft Business Partner
• Headquartered in Switzerland, with Offices in the USA,
China and France
• Specialized in Messaging and Collaboration Environment
supervision
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7. Challenges
Reduce
Users Impact
Save
Costs
Optimize
IT Resources
Critical focus areas
Audit
Consolidation and Merging
Co-existence of Messaging Infrastructure
Stress Test Validation
Validation of Architecture Sizing
SLA Management
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8. Migration follow up
Validate the load move between source and target environments
Track mail routing latency and pending queues
Easily update user counts on both platforms
Identify undesired changes
Track connections
Performance Monitoring check list
Are my Exchange servers Online, do they serve all protocols?
Are key Windows services up and running?
Are my servers performing fine? check for usage and free resources
(CPU, memory, disk usage)
Are all my mailbox databases mounted and redundant?
Is my environment highly available, is automatic failover ready to
perform?
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9. Based on the consolidated metrics collected during
scans
Global service availability
Detailed performance and usage story
Capacity planning and forecasting
Protocol and routing latency tracking
Per server, role and protocol
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10. Manage availability and performance
All in on software, no agent, no module nor add-on
PowerShell embedded test sets
Synthetic user transactions (supporting Hybrid configuration)
Based on Windows performances counters
Auto discovery of Exchange and SharePoint
No script to maintain
No more WMI corruption
Multi tenant
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11. New v10.7 designed especially for Exchange 2013 and Exchange
Online
Comprehensive and intuitive dashboard:
The expertise of the environment is inside the tool
Comprehensive view for non-collaboration experts
Dashboard-based on roles and services provided by Exchange on premise and Online at
the same time.
Consolidated dashboard for Hybrid environments
Reports on Availability, Performance and Usage of on Premise and Exchange
Online environment
Focuses on End User Performance Management
Complimentary to SCOM
Works on any type of Hybrid: Exchange 2010 / Online and 2013 / Online
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12. Ease the Transition to Exchange 2013 or Office 365
No more fear around service availability and performance in Hybrid
environments
Gives accurate metrics and proof of the performance and quality of
services to each Business line
Increase end-user satisfaction
Decrease costs of Infrastructure and management
Easy way to maximize ROI of the Exchange Infrastructure, reports
for consolidation, optimization, health checks, etc.
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14. GSX’s Beta Program
v10.7 Beta available
Support for Exchange 2013 and
Exchange Online and Hybrid deployments
Free Trial Version
30 days
Full features
Up to 10 servers per platform
Unlimited users
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15. GSX Solutions© 2013
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16. @GSX_Solutions
Friend of GSX
GSX Solutions HQ
EMEA
GSX-Solutions Like page
Blog
www.gsx.com/blog
Geneva, Switzerland
+41 22 735 82 40
sales@gsx.com
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