CSI has developed infrastructure solutions for some of North America's largest companies and can help build your high-level IT strategy or provide a comprehensive IT consolidation strategy. We have a wide range of solutions and services that address your individual server and storage needs.

Our technology infrastructure group excels at solutions for Active Directory migrations, Exchange upgrades and security services. Consultants are available for consulting in the areas of server consolidation, migration and business continuity.

Active Directory Services
Windows 2003 Server and Active Directory help organizations to consolidate the management of existing network environment, increase network security, and integrate many different components into one scalable network.

Active Directory plays three important roles in any organization:

Increase IT Operational Efficiency by:
• Increasing the efficiency of managing Windows by up to 30%
• Reducing the number of directories and passwords
• Centrally managing Windows servers & desktops

Strengthening Security by:
• Automating the lockdown of Windows systems
• Enforcing the user of strong passwords & credentials
• Simplifying managing access to network resources

Improving Employee Productivity by:
• Enabling end users to find people, applications and resources faster
• Empowering employees with rich collaboration capabilities; and,
• Providing single sign-on to integrated applications and resources

As a Microsoft Certified Partner, we can help you make the right design and migration decisions when you decide to upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003

Complete Solutions infrastructure services experts specialize in:
• Design & Validate Active Directory Services and Network Infrastructure
• Identity Synchronization & Transformation
• Active Directory in Application Mode (ADAM)

Migration Services
E-mail and calendaring have a tremendous impact on the way organizations of all sizes conduct business. While workers communicate with greater speed and efficiency, the proliferation of e-mail brings new challenges regarding the need for higher levels of security and more access options for highly mobile workers. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 provides the most effective set of capabilities for meeting these needs, and customers need your help to take advantage of these new capabilities.

Our infrastructure services experts specialize in performing upgrade of the Exchange server services and Exchange users, mailboxes and public folders from:

• Exchange 5.5 Organization to a Exchange 2000 Organization.
• Exchange 2000 Organization to a new Exchange 2003 Organization.
• Migrate to Exchange from servers running Lotus Notes versions 3.x, 4.0, and 4.1, and servers running Lotus Domino versions 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, and later, which must be running on Microsoft Windows NT® Server, OS/2, UNIX, or Novell NetWare operating systems.

Lotus Notes to Microsoft Platform
Many customers of IBM's Lotus Notes product are re-evaluating their messaging and collaboration infrastructure decisions. This is due in no small part to IBM's announcements in early 2002 of its intention to deliver an entirely new set of technologies, based not on the Notes and Domino platform, but on a multitude of products from the four pillars of the IBM Software Group (WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, and Lotus). In line with the shifting market and the emerging new model for collaboration, Complete Solutions recognizes Microsoft as an organization that has significantly extended its collaboration-related product set during the last few years. For collaboration applications, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and Office XP provide great out-of-the box solutions for many scenarios. In addition, the Exchange SDK includes sample solutions for some common collaboration scenarios.

For custom-built collaboration solutions, Visual Studio.NET can be used for complex custom applications. These applications may access two or more Notes databases, use workflow, or other complicated concepts. Complex custom applications are often business-critical. Some of these solutions can include significant customization by developers to add functionality not designed into Notes.

Security Services
Whether our customer's business is a startup or a Fortune 100 mainstay, Microsoft platform can help build the Internet into every part of our customer's organization. From hosting a simple web site to building a sophisticated e-commerce application, the web and application services in Windows 2000 provide the foundation you need to take full advantage of the Internet. When building this infrastructure, it is just as important to include a solid security infrastructure as part of our customers overall plan.

Microsoft's windows 2000 security services provides an integrated set of security services employing such features as Kerberos, Public Key Infrastructure, smart card infrastructure, certificate services, Encrypted File System (EFS), the Security Configuration Toolset, Group Policy and delegated administration.

The following services are offered by our security services group:
• Offer prevention planning against natural disasters, viruses, and hackers.
• Conduct a risk assessment to understand system vulnerabilities.
• Conduct security audits.
• Implement a detection program including anti-virus software installation.
• Create a recovery plan if systems are compromised.