Greater Vancouver Community Services Society is a provider of health services ranging from in home services for elderly and disabled clients requiring medical and housekeeping services, to 24 hour supervision of severely disabled individuals through GVCSS’ Group Home support program.  GVCSS has over 600 employees.  They have been a Syncronet client since 1998.

• Migration of a predominately Novell environment to Windows 2000 and subsequently to Windows 2003
• Deployment of Active Directory
• Migration of workstations to Windows XP
• Installation and support for Exchange 2000 with subsequent upgrade to Exchange 2003 including Outlook Web Access
• Installation and support of SQL2000 to accommodate three mission critical medical and HR databases while working closely with third party custom database application providers
• Deployment of Microsoft SUS (Software Update Server) to ensure timely patch management
• Network wide deployment of applications using Active Directory Group Policy Objects
• Enterprise-wide deployment of Symantec corporate Anti-virus solution and GFI MailEssentials spam control
• Deployment of remote access solution using SonicWALL VPN technology to support 11 remote locations including Richmond HandyDART and Simon Fraser HandyDART
• 24/7 remote monitoring of all critical systems using Sentinel WatchlIT, a Syncronet branded solution
• Ongoing technical support including break/fix, upgrades, troubleshooting, consultation, etc.

“Throughout our dealings with Syncronet, we have found them responsive and open to our requirements and ideals. We have been particularly encouraged by the fact that they have been able to select the right solution at the right time because they are not tied in to any one product or vendor. We have been extremely pleased with Syncronet’s advice, work ethic and overall willingness to achieve demonstrable results within clearly defined timescales. We will have no hesitation in offering Syncronet additional projects, when they are required, or recommending them to other organizations.”