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The company, which was founded in 1968, had a legacy network system that MSP installed back in 2004.\u00a0 The network contained two\u00a0Compaq Proliant servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Exchange 2003 in the Perkasie facility. With the dated hardware and software, TWG needs were to upgrade to\u00a0a new computing foundation to replace the Perkasie existing File & Print server and Exchange server.\u00a0 Management also wanted to add two new enhancements\u00a0to the network… the capability of disk to disk backups and mail archiving for their business.<\/p>\n
As TWG is proactive in use of technology and plan exceedingly well, this was the project list that was generated to\u00a0be addressed\u00a0in a timely manner.\u00a0\u00a0TWG wanted to update their network, but a strict condition was that the project could not interfere business productivity- there could be no down time.<\/p>\n
2014 Ushers in Major Changes<\/p>\n
After MSP performed a needs analysis study, we generated a\u00a0solutions proposal\u00a0that Dean Wimmer and Dave Beck, The Weimer Group principal partners, approved – a plan by MSP to introduce virtualization to TWG.\u00a0 In the design, we would install one core powerhouse fileserver with redundant drives, power supply, NICs, and – very important- accompany it with a hardware support via a HP 24X7X4 Hour guaranteed response contract.\u00a0 This new server would be built to house the new virtual servers and we would then proceed through a staged, well timed sequence of moving production from old fileservers to new.<\/p>\n
In May 2014 MSP took on the project.\u00a0 We installed a\u00a0new computer rack with a single high-end HP Proliant DL380P fileserver to house the new\u00a0VMware installation. The new server was loaded with VMware and the new virtual servers were created with Windows Server 2008 R2.\u00a0 The new Proliant DL380P hosts 4 servers total: File & Print server, Domain Controller, Exchange 2013 mail server, and GFI Mail Archiver server.<\/p>\n
We then successfully transferred DC role, printing, security rights, programs and data from old F&P server.\u00a0 Then we moved onto mail, successfully migrating all mail roles and mailboxes from the old Exchange 2003 server to 2010 and ultimately 2013 server. We were conscientious of not affecting the insurance company’s day to day operations and we were able to perform this all-encompassing upgrade with zero down time to for the users.\u00a0 The project went extremely well with\u00a0all old servers’ roles migrated\u00a0to new host.\u00a0 The most difficult part of the project – as it is with most fileserver replacements-\u00a0was reloading\u00a0vertical applications (in this case insurance related) and transfer of data, which required software support from those particular vendors.<\/p>\n
MSP also implemented the network enhancements requested.\u00a0 We added the disk to disk back solution using\u00a0Symantec backup Exec System Recovery and ioSafe 4 TB NAS.\u00a0 These fireproof\/waterproof devices are an ideal solution for small to medium size businesses.\u00a0 We also created a dedicated virtual server to host the\u00a0GFI mail Archiver product, allowing TWG to maintain a copy of all inbound and\u00a0outbound email for industry compliance.<\/p>\n
A juggling act bar none! End result… Over a few week period, the client had achieved their goals.\u00a0 A new hardware and software platform in place to run their business on that will provide\u00a0a solid computing\u00a0foundation\u00a0for the next 5, 6, 7 years.<\/p>\n
The Weimer Group (TWG) is a highly rated regional insurance company with offices in Perkasie and Harleysville, Pennsylvania. MSP introduced a virtual environment to support Windows app servers, Exchange, and email archiving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msponline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}