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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the release of Exchange 2010. Built with a new design that improves uptime, strengthens protection, reduces costs, and streamlines management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of a new wave of IT solutions created to increase business efficiency and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange 2010’s improvements in the field of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that continuously copy mailboxes and offer rapid, automatic recovery from disk or server failures without complex hardware clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based access management, and allow/block or quarantine control for wireless devices bolster security and compliance. To improve return on investment, Microsoft Exchange 2010 can save as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk systems. To read Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Ships Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help Your Business with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers offer a wide selection of Microsoft Exchange 2010 consulting services and can assist your business to evaluate the advantages and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange 2010, conduct pilot simulations to verify the operation and throughput of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your environment, plan a Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution that improves the availability, security, and capability of your messaging system, create a practical upgrade plan that reduces business disruption and maximizes the use of existing hardware, deliver affordable online and on-premises support to carry out your move to Exchange Server 2010, produce extensive documentation of your upgraded email environment, educate your network support staff and end users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing administrative and technical help.

Progent specializes in offering remote consulting and network support, which can save your company significant time and money in the course of your move to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By delivering fast remote contact with Microsoft-certified Exchange experts, Progent eliminates the cost and delay associated with on-premises service. For environments that call for on-premises help, Progent can dispatch a consulting professional to any state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network consultants can deliver a variety of additional low-cost support services to enhance the productivity, availability, security, performance, and ease of administration of email environments powered by Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent offers the expertise of Cisco CCIE network experts to assist your business to enhance your connectivity infrastructure to benefit from the high-availability, protection, and wireless connectivity technologies built into Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective techniques to configure Cisco network appliances to attain the highest degree of network uptime, security, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals are experts in providing online assistance so that you can get world-class network consulting at a price that small organizations can handle.

Security Vulnerability Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified security engineers can oversee a selection of cost-effective security inventory evaluation service bundles that give companies of any size a chance to have an unbiased, expert assessment about the strength of their security environment for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price security scanning packages vary from a low-cost external security evaluation offering for small organizations up to a high-level offering for businesses who need to comply with security standards demanded by state or industry mandates or by clients. For each security evaluation package, engineers with high-level security certifications examine and report on automatically collected information and make suggestions for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's backup and recovery engineers can help you to design a business continuity plan so your business can restore essential business operations in case of an IT system breakdown brought about by natural events, cyber attack, equipment problems, operator error, or other causes. Progent can assist you to develop a comprehensive business continuity strategy that incorporates scheduled emergency recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized IT experts can also help you to design and build an economical, high-uptime system infrastructure that takes into account resilience issues concerning a wide range of system technologies and processes including server and storage clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Data Protection Manager support services to assist you configure DPM for ongoing online system backup and rapid restoration.

Mobile Email Consulting for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless messaging experts can reduce management stress and expenses by assisting your company to select, set up, manage, and support mobile productivity solutions that make sense for your business goals. Progent's consultants can help your organization to execute a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 migration that dramatically enhances support for on-the-go employees by providing seamless integration with major wireless handheld devices including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can also assist you to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's seasoned network management professionals offer certified expertise in key virtual server platforms and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server consulting, VMware virtual server engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's consultants can show you how to incorporate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual server solution that optimizes speed, improves uptime, simplifies administration, reduces restoration time, and significantly lowers your investment in hardware and support. As an example, Progent's engineers can assist you to use Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtualized environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to help you to install, administer, and support Microsoft's most advanced server product and ensure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art information network powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can assist you to set up and analyze pilot simulations, develop and execute an upgrade strategy that reduces business disruption, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your protection, and set up server and storage clustering and machine virtualization options that improve the strategic value of your information environment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to install, administer, and support Microsoft Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft’s latest client technology functions efficiently with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk analysis, project management, test installations under realistic conditions, minimally intrusive deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, comprehensive documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop workers and system administrators, plus continuing technical help from Progent's low-cost remote help desk support services.

For more information about Progent's consulting for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.