Your servers are the heart of your business technology. An investment in proven server technology, along with a professional installation and configuration will ensure that you get the best return from your investment and enduring value for money.

We are Microsoft Certified Partners - for you, this translates into the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your IT is being handled by professionals with the requisite skill and experience, a solutions-oriented approach, and a passion for excellence.

Whenever we are specifying, installing, configuring, or supporting servers, we ensure that they always get the full care & attention they deserve. After all, the functioning of a network ultimately depends on the server that runs it, and following the best practices of the industry, we will ensure that your network works reliably and delivers on every count.

There are a range of Microsoft Server solutions available to choose from, depending on your existing infrastructure, your needs and the size of your organisation.

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003

This fantastic offering from Microsoft combines the best of a number of Microsoft Server technologies:
* Windows Server 2003
* Exchange Server 2003
* Windows SharePoint Services
* SQL Server
* ISA Server

Windows Small Business Server 2003 is specifically designed for organisations with less than 75 employees / computers - in our experience, SBS may be the perfect choice for an organisation with anywhere between 5 and 55 users.

Depending on the flavour (there's a Standard and a Premium) of SBS, you get the following features as part of the package:
* A secure, stable & protected operating system
* File, print & application sharing
* Intranet features for document & information sharing
* In-house e-mail, messaging and groupware solution
* Shared calendaring
* E-mail & calendar access from the web
* Fax Services
* Database capability (Premium)
* Internet security & caching features (Premium)
* Web development tools (Premium)

Windows Small Business Server 2003 delivers all of the above in a package that is scalable, flexible, and offers great performance at a surprisingly affordable price.

Services offered: Windows Small Business Server 2003 specification, supply, installation, configuration, management and support.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

The Windows Server 2003 operating system builds on the proven reliability, scalability, and manageability of Windows 2000 Server. There are marked improvements of essential services, and with enhanced security and better performance, Windows Server 2003 is by far the no.1 choice of server infrastructure for increasing IT efficiency and enhancing productivity.

What does this mean for you? Essentially, a network based on Windows Server 2003 gives you a secure, stable and robust platform on which to base the communications, groupware & applications that power your business.

Networks based on Windows Server 2003 installations are more secure, easier to manage and offer better performance than ever before.

A Windows Server 2003 server will provide you with:
* A secure, stable & protected operating system
* File, print & application sharing
* Web server and Web application services
* Mail server
* Terminal Server
* Remote Access
* Directory Services (Active Directory)
* Streaming Media Server

To summarise, Windows Server 2003 includes all the functionality you need today from a Windows server operating system to do more with less, such as security, reliability, availability, and scalability.

Services offered: Windows Server 2003 specification, supply, installation, configuration, management and support.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 / 2007

E-mail is transforming the way in which businesses communicate, and has quickly established itself as the dominant form of business communication. More businesses these days view e-mail as their primary and preferred form of written communication - over 60% of all internal and external business communication is done by email today.

Email in most small organisations is controlled by the use of a hosting service package from an Internet Service Provider (ISP), with mail being transferred to the disparate local machines via POP access. POP-based and IMAP-based solutions are best suited for home and personal use where requirements for data recoverability and security are not high, as POP was designed to support offline mail processing.
With POP, e-mail messages are removed from the server and put on the local POP client. This places the data management and security responsibility in the hands of the user, which is not an optimal situation. IMAP is better, offering both offline and online access, but like POP, IMAP does not offer advanced collaboration features such as scheduling and group scheduling, and task and contact management.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (and Microsoft Outlook 2003) combine the best of online and offline access to mailboxes, and the combination of the two is optimised to perform the best through a messaging and communication protocol that includes e mail and built-in support for scheduling, sharing free/busy information, contact lists, tasks, directory address books, and public folders.

Exchange 2003 also has built-in support for non-Outlook clients, such as Web browser clients supporting HTML (Outlook Web Access), CHTML (Outlook Mobile Access) and WAP 2.0 (Outlook Mobile Access).

Additionally, Exchange provides synchronisation support to Microsoft Windows-based mobile devices while basic POP-based and IMAP-based solutions would need additional server applications to support these clients.

Basic POP and IMAP e-mail systems were never designed to include this broader, richer set of collaborative capabilities, and for most organizations, basic e-mail services are not good enough to meet today's competitive business environment, which requires greater worker productivity enabled by rich collaboration features.

Services offered: Exchange Server 2003 specification, supply, installation, configuration, management and support.

Whatever stage you or your organisation are at, feel free to contact us, and we will be happy to meet you and discuss your needs.