IT Consulting Services provides you with the ideal blend of services to meet the specific technology needs of your business. Get the types of on-site services you need as well as the level of service that suits your unique situation.

Architecture and Design Services
These services utilize the expert consultants IT Consulting Services has as full time employees that have worked with a variety of technologies, usually 12-24 months prior to the general release of the technology. This provides IT Consulting Services the ability to provide best practice recommendations, unique proven designs, and methodical plans for implementation based on real world experience.

Some of the Planning and Design Solutions provided by IT Consulting Services include:

• Windows 2003 Active Directory Planning and Design
• Exchange v5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration Planning
• Exchange 2000 / 2003 to Exchange 2007 Migration Planning
• IP Scheme and DNS Redesign
• Security Audits and Reviews
• LDAP / Active Directory Integration Design
• Clustering / Fault Tolerance / Disaster Recovery Planning and Design Assistance
• 1-yr, 3-yr, 5-yr Technology Roadmap and Budget Planning
• Netware NDS to Windows 2003 Co-Existence / Integration / Migration Planning
• Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Co-Existence Gateway & Migration Planning
• Active Directory Group Policy Review, Planning, and Design
• Desktop Imaging and Software Update Design Planning
• Document Management and Data Management Design Planning
• Server Consolidation and System "Rightsizing" Planning

Implementation and Migration
The implementation and migration assistance services offered by IT Consulting Services may be IT Consulting Services led or client led with the ultimate end goal of leveraging the experience and expertise that IT Consulting Services has amassed over the years at successfully completing technology implementation and migration projects.

Some of the Implementation and Migration Solutions provided by IT Consulting Services include:

• Windows NT4 to Windows 2003 Migration Assistance
• Exchange v5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration Assistance
• Exchange 2000 / 2003 to Exchange 2007 Migration Assistance
• Single Sign-on / Directory Synchronization Implementation Assistance
• Virus Proxy Gateway Implementation Assistance
• Netware NDS to Windows 2003 Migration Assistance
• Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Migration Assistance
• Active Directory Group Policy Implementation Assistance
• Desktop Image and Software Update Implementation Assistance
• Document Management and Data Management Solution Implementation Assistance
• Server Consolidation and System "Rightsizing" Solution Implementation Assistance
• Security Lockdown Assistance

Temporary and/or Project Specific Staff Augmentation
There are many times when an organization needs a helping hand of a skilled resource to backfill, provide temporary, or project specific assistance. A major portion of IT Consulting Services business is to provide skilled personnel on a daily, weekly, or monthly rate basis to its clients. IT Consulting Services' resources are certified, qualified, and experienced to provide a variety of supplemental support services.

Some of the common Staff Augmentation Solutions provided by IT Consulting Services include:

• Backfill During an Employee Vacation
• Backfill During an Employee Unplanned (illness / family emergency / etc) Outage
• Backfilling for an Employee Who is Out for an Extended Period of Time (maternity leave / scheduled leave of absence / etc)
• Adding a Contract Resource with Specific Skills to Provide Extra Assistance During a Project
• Adding a Contract Resource with Specific Skills to Provide Knowledge Transfer and Hands-on Assistance during a Project
• Adding "Bodies" to a Short Term Project to Provide a Helping Hand (facility move / migration project / major roll-out)

Problem Solving / Debugging / Performance Tuning & Optimization
There comes a time with most network and messaging systems when system performance slows down or a nagging problem just can't be resolved. Many times it's one product vendor pointing the finger at another product vendor with little progress to an end solution. IT Consulting Services has expertise across multiple platforms (Windows, Netware, Unix, Mainframe / HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM / SQL, Oracle, DB2 / Veritas, Legato, ArcServe / etc) and works with hundreds of different clients where many problems that are unknown by vendors have already been resolved by IT Consulting Services staff. Many times, a quick call and a few hours by a IT Consulting Services consultant or specialist can get to the root of a problem.

Some of the Problem Solving, Debugging, and Performance Tuning and Optimization Solutions provided by IT Consulting Services include:

• Exchange Database Corruption Problem Resolution
• LAN / WAN Performance Tuning and Optimization
• Virus Eradication Assistance
• AD / WINS / DNS Database Recovery Assistance
• Proactive Network Monitoring and Management Systems Implementation Assistance