In fact, without Martin Rasmussen of Compaq, we couldn't have done this. We are very satisfied with the solution. In addition to non-disrupted users, the HFK IT staff is already seeing benefits in the upgrade. Stability is good. There is no downtime.
Easier administration is another benefit.
It is much easier to make changes and manipulate the system. Populating the Active Directory and creating mailboxes is an automated task, as it was in the 5.5 version. This will give us the ability to test out the use of sound, picture, and video for educational purposes. We plan to have this up and running in September. We therefore saw this as an opportunity to run a real life test on the educational domain.