As the adoption of Linux continues, so does the need for services to support the growing market. Services increasingly are becoming an integral part of the total solution.

IBM Global Services has a strong portfolio in the new specialised Linux® services, built on a core set of traditional consulting, enablement and training services. Coupled with outstanding hardware and software, you gain a high level of confidence in coming to IBM Global Services as a single point of contact for a total solution. You can gain improvements in scalability, flexibility, reliability, security and total cost of ownership.

By partnering with IGS, you gain the benefit of 2,000 professionals who can skillfully deploy Linux globally, access the broadest Linux services portfolio across industries, gain from the alliances with major Linux Distribution Partners (LDP's) - RedHat®, SuSE®, TurboLinux® and many others.

We provide the services from assessment and planning, design and development, implementation, testing, production and live running, and learning services.

IBM SmoothStart Services for Windows® NT to Windows® 2000 Server Migration provides ease of migration without having to know the complexities of the two networking systems, provides access to quality services from experienced IBM professionals through proper planning, minimises potential disruptions to the current business operations.

The IBM SmoothStart Services for Basic Windows® NT to Windows® 2000 Migration starts from as low as S$1,200.

The services include:

• Plan and review project schedule
• Manage IBM and customer activities
• Report project status to customer
• Determine required information for installation and server configuration
• Verify compliance of prerequisite

• Perform 'in place' migration of Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server on 1 existing Microsoft® Windows® NT Server
• Migrate user accounts, file shares and printer shares on Windows® NT server to the Windows® 2000 environment.
• Migrate network Services (WINS, DNS, DHCP) from Windows® NT server to the Windows® 2000 environment.
• Demonstrate the steps required to change client settings to log on to the migrated server if required for up to 5 client machines

Installation Testing and Verification
Verification testing will be conducted on the newly installed Windows® 2000 Network Operating System. This will include the following activities:

• Test that the 5 migrated network clients are able to login to the server.
• Test that the migrated network resources are accessible on the network.
• Test the newly configured Windows® 2000 services if applicable.

Skill Transfer
The customer's designated personnel will receive basic instructions on Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server administration procedures for up to 2 hours at customer site.

Details of the services provided are subject to the final services agreement and statement of work.