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Adlink Communications Ltd was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Duff.  The company initially provided its services through intermediaries, for example, systems integrators and solution providers, but has recently evolved to offer the services directly to end clients.

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Testimonials

Client Profile

Task

Consultant Role

UK high street soft furnishings retailer with 30 outlets

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 domain and Exchange 5.5 organisation migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003, including business critical applications and workflow systems

Analysis, design, specification, project planning, project management, implementation, knowledge transfer

UK subsidiary of an international glass manufacturing corporation with 70,000 users

Cisco network health-check, performance monitoring and upgrade to support IT infrastructure expansion

Analysis, design, specification, implementation

Multi-site, multi-subsidiary international film animation and special effects company with 200 users

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 domain and Exchange 5.5 organisation migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003

Analysis, design, specification, project planning, project management, support

UK District Council

Microsoft ASP/SQL 2000 web-site database for online recording and searching of planning permission applications

Analysis, design, specification and working prototype development, knowledge transfer

UK professional medical institution with 450 users

Desktop software build, imaging and remote application deployment

Analysis, design, specification, implementation, knowledge transfer, support

UK subsidiary of an international pharmaceutical group

Microsoft SQL 2000 data warehouse solution

Analysis, design, specification, development, implementation, knowledge transfer

UK subsidiaries of an international direct marketing company with 20,000 users

Nationwide IT management and support

Infrastructure management and user support

Focus - Microsoft SharePoint Testimonials

Client Profile

Task

Consultant Role

Global engineering company

MOSS 2007 farm design: -

 

·         Multi-country, multi-site, multi-server

·         50,000 users

Requirements, analysis, architecture, product evaluation, knowledge transfer.

International firm of accountants

MOSS 2007 farm design, deployment and development: -

 

·         Multi-server, multi-site farm:  WFE, search server and database server architecture

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, portal, workflow, personalisation, search and branding

·         SSP services:  Profile import, search, audiences, personalisation, BDC

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Provisioning, content types, navigation, audiencing, personalisation, users, groups and permissions, lists and libraries, page and web-part configuration, master pages and page layouts, CSS

·         Visual Studio 2008 C# development:  Custom Web-Parts and Event-Handler code for drag-and-drop filing and folder to document metadata synchronisation

Requirements, analysis, architecture, design, implementation, configuration, customisation, development, knowledge transfer, documentation, support.

UK medical institution

MOSS 2007 farm support: -

 

·         Multi-server, multi-site farm:  WFE, search server and database server architecture

·         Functional areas: Content Deployment Path troubleshooting and support

Support.

UK district council

MOSS 2007 farm knowledge transfer and mentoring: -

 

·         Single-server farm

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, personalisation and search

·         SSP services:  Profile import, search, audiences, personalisation

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Provisioning, content types, navigation, audiencing, personalisation, users, groups and permissions, lists and libraries, page and web-part configuration

Knowledge transfer, mentoring support.

UK IT service provider

Office 2007 VSTO add-in design and development: -

 

Functional areas:  Word 2007 add-in pane to enable browsing of and copy-and-paste interaction with the text content of Word documents stored in SharePoint libraries, Excel 2007 add-in pane to enable de-normalisation of spreadsheets with multi-value columns as preparation for importation of data to SharePoint lists.

 

Requirements, analysis, design, development.

UK charity

MOSS 2007 farm technical review and knowledge transfer: -

 

·         Single server farm

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, personalisation

Requirements, analysis, architecture, design, audit and review, knowledge transfer, documentation, troubleshooting and support.

Global animation services provider

WSS 3.0 farm deployment, migration and backup / restore: -

 

·         Single-server farm

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, search and infrastructure management

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Migration of content and system state from old to new farms

·         Scripting development of stsadm command for backup and restore application

Infrastructure administration, implementation, configuration, knowledge transfer, support.

International bank

MOSS 2007 farm audit, review and support: -

 

·         Single-server farm

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, search

·         SSP services:  Profile import, search

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Provisioning, content types, navigation, users, groups and permissions, lists and libraries, page and web-part configuration

Audit and review, support.

NHS hospital trust

MOSS 2007 farm design and deployment: -

 

·         Multi-server farm:  WFE, search server and clustered database server architecture, 5,000 users

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, workflow, personalisation, search and branding

·         SSP services:  Profile import, search, audiences, personalisation

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Provisioning, content types, navigation, audiencing, personalisation, users, groups and permissions, lists and libraries, page and web-part configuration, master pages and page layouts, CSS

Requirements, analysis, architecture, design, implementation, configuration, customisation, knowledge transfer, documentation, support.

UK firm of solicitors

MOSS 2007 farm customisation and MySites: -

 

·         Single-server farm:  WFE, search server and database server architecture

·         Functional areas:  Content management, collaboration, workflow, personalisation, search and branding

·         SSP services:  Profile import, search, audiences, personalisation, MySites

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Provisioning, navigation, audiencing, personalisation, users, groups and permissions, lists and libraries, page and web-part configuration, MySites

·         SharePoint Designer 2007 web service query development:  Web service query and Data View Web-Part development for employee directory functionality

Requirements, analysis, architecture, design, implementation, configuration, customisation, development, knowledge transfer, documentation, support.

UK financial institution

MOSS 2007 farm extranet deployment: -

 

·         Multi-server farm:  WFE, search server and database server architecture, LAN and DMZ scoped

·         Functional areas:  Content management, document management, collaboration, extranet, search

·         Central Admin:  Forms based authentication and web application extension for extranet access

·         Web application, site collection and sites:  Provisioning, content types, navigation, audiencing, personalisation, users, groups and permissions, lists and libraries, page and web-part configuration, master pages and page layouts, CSS

Implementation, configuration, knowledge transfer, support.