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Project Scope

  1. Support 35,000 users on Exchange 2007
    1. 28,000 students
    2. 7,000 faculty and staff
  2. Usage patterns
    1. Students primarily OWA users
    2. Faculty and Staff primarily Outlook 2003 (growing number of Outlook 2007)
  3. Protocols supported
    1. MAPI
    2. Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTPS)
    3. IMAP4
    4. POP3
    5. HTTPS
  4. Additional Services Supported
    1. Authenticated SMTP (New to previous scope)
  5. Clients supported
    One of the primary goals of this project is to provide support to any client with a sizeable population of users.
    1. Eudora
    2. Thunderbird
    3. Mac Mail
    4. Outlook
    5. OWA
    6. Entourage
  6. Quotas
    1. 50 mb for Undergraduate Students
    2. 150 mb for Graduate Students
    3. 250 mb for Faculty and Staff
  7. Architecture should be designed for enhanced disaster recovery.
  8. Anti-Virus and Anti Spam
    1. Protect Exchange mailbox with Anti-SPAM
      1. Forefront message hosting - will pay for Forefront through August 3 Then will re-evaluate to determine best long term solution.
      2. Anti spam coverage by mail alias
        1. Sophos - @uiowa.edu
        2. Forefront - @iowa.uiowa.edu, hawkeyesports.uiowa.edu, etc
        3. Forefront - ListServe protection
  9. Changes to Provisioning rules
    1. Rebuilding the off-line address book more than once a day
    2. ISIS requests will provisioned as Exchange accounts rather than Blue
    3. Updating the GAL when an entry is added
  10. Move target populations to Exchange 2007
    1. Incoming fall 2007 students (6/6/2007)
    2. Existing Blue students (Early Fall 2007)
    3. Existing Exchange 2003 students (Late Fall 2007)
    4. Existing Exchange 2003 faculty/staff (December 2007)
    5. Existing Blue faculty/staff (December 2007/January 2008)