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At the Microsoft Tech'Ed Europe 2009 conference in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. With a new architecture that improves uptime, strengthens security and compliance, lowers deployment costs, and streamlines management, Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of a new generation of information technology designed to enhance business productivity and profitability.

Exchange 2010's improvements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that continuously replicate mailboxes and provide fast, automatic recovery from disk or server failures without complex clustering schemes. Features such as retention management policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine lists for mobile devices improve security and compliance. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on operational costs, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk storage. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Announces Exchange Server 2010 Availability.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the benefits and costs of deploying Exchange Server 2010, manage pilot testing to determine the functionality and performance of Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange Server 2010 solution that enhances the availability, security, and capability of your messaging system, create a practical migration plan that minimizes business disruption and optimizes the use of existing equipment, provide affordable online and onsite help to implement your move to Exchange Server 2010, generate comprehensive documentation of your upgraded messaging system, train your IT staff and workers to bring them up to speed quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing administrative and technical support.

Progent specializes in providing remote consulting and technical support services, which can save you significant time and money during your migration to Exchange Server 2010. By offering fast online access to certified Exchange experts, Progent eliminates the cost and delay associated with onsite support. For environments that require on-premises assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting professional to all states and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT professionals offer a range of other low-cost services to enhance the productivity, availability, security, performance, and manageability of messaging systems powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Network Design and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent offers the expertise of Cisco CCIE Network Engineers to help you optimize your network infrastructure to support the high-availability, security, and mobile connectivity features incorporated in Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can show you economical ways to configure Cisco switches, routers, and wireless appliances to achieve the highest level of network uptime, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE professionals specialize in providing remote support so that you can benefit from enterprise-class network consulting at a cost that small businesses can afford.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's certified security consultants can provide a selection of cost-effective security assessment service packages that give organizations of any size an opportunity to receive an objective, expert opinion about the strength of their security environment for supporting Exchange Server 2010. These packages range from a low-cost external security scan and assessment package for small companies up to a high-level package for institutions who need to comply with security standards demanded by state regulators or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and report on scanned information and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's business continuity consultants can help you design a disaster recovery plan so you can restore network operations in case of an IT system breakdown brought about by natural disaster, malicious attack, hardware failure, human error, or other causes. Progent can assist you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide range of network technologies and procedures such as clustering, load balancing, and virtualization.

Mobile Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile messaging consultants can save you time and money helping you select, configure, manage, and troubleshoot mobile productivity solutions that make sense for your business. Progent can help you with a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 migration that significantly improves support for mobile workers by offering seamless integration with popular wireless handheld devices including BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can also help you incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's network management consultants offer expertise with key virtual server platforms and offer Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V support, VMware vSphere consulting, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show you how to incorporate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual server environment that maximizes performance, improves uptime, streamlines management, reduces recovery time, and significantly lowers the costs of hardware and support.

Windows Server 2008 Integration Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting services to help you install, manage, and support Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Exchange 2010 is tightly integrated into a state-of-the-art IT environment powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent can help you set up and evaluate pilot systems, create and execute an upgrade strategy that minimizes business disruption, solidify your network infrastructure, fortify your security, and implement clustering and virtualization options that add business value to your information network.

Windows 7 Migration and Desktop Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you install, manage, and support Windows 7 desktops to make Microsoft's most advanced client platform operate efficiently with Exchange Server 2010. Progent's Windows 7 migration support services include cost and benefit analysis, project management, pilot testing under realistic conditions, minimally disruptive rollout of Windows 7 desktops, thorough documentation, personalized online training for desktop workers and system administrators, plus ongoing technical support via online help desk services.

To find out additional details concerning Progent's support services for Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.