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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 show in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the production release of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Built with an innovative architecture that increases availability, strengthens security, lowers deployment costs, and streamlines management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as part of the next wave of IT solutions created to increase business productivity and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the field of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and offer rapid, unassisted restoration from hard disk or processor failures without complicated clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based connection management, and block or quarantine lists for mobile devices improve protection. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange 2010 can save as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on hard disk systems. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can provide a wide selection of Microsoft Exchange 2010 consulting skills and can help your business to assess the benefits and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, conduct pilot simulations to verify the functionality and throughput of Exchange Server 2010 in your network, design an Exchange 2010 configuration that improves the availability, protection, and productivity of your email system, create a practical migration strategy that minimizes business interruption and maximizes the utilization of existing hardware, deliver affordable online and onsite help to carry out your move to Exchange 2010, produce comprehensive documentation of your new email system, educate your network support team and users to get them ramped up rapidly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing administrative and technical help.

Progent specializes in providing remote engineering and network support, which can save you significant time and expense in the course of your move to Exchange Server 2010. By offering fast remote access to certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the expense and business interruption attached to on-premises service. For situations that require in-person help, Progent can send a consulting expert to any state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network consultants can deliver a range of other low-cost support services to improve the productivity, availability, protection, performance, and ease of administration of email systems based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent can provide the assistance of Cisco CCIE network engineers to assist your business to enhance your connectivity architecture to exploit the fault-tolerance, protection, and wireless access features built into Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective ways to deploy Cisco switches and routers to attain the top degree of network uptime, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE professionals specialize in providing online consulting so that you can get enterprise-class network infrastructure expertise at a cost that small companies can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages
Progent's CISA and GIAC certified network security engineers can oversee a selection of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service packages that give companies of any size an opportunity to have an objective, expert opinion about the suitability of their security scheme for supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment packages range from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to a high-level offering for institutions who have to meet security standards demanded by government regulations or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, engineers with high-level security certifications examine and report on automatically collected data and make recommendations for efficient improvements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can help your company to create a workplace recovery strategy so you can restore essential network functions in the event of an information system collapse due to natural events, malicious assault, equipment failure, operator error, or other sources. Progent can assist your organization to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes scheduled emergency response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized IT experts can also assist your business to establish an affordable, high-availability network architecture that addresses reliability issues concerning a broad array of system technologies and procedures including clustering, network load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager support expertise to assist you configure DPM for ongoing online data backup and rapid restoration.

Wireless Email Consulting for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email consultants can minimize hassle and costs by helping you to select, set up, administer, and support mobile messaging solutions that align with your business. Progent's consultants can help your organization with an Exchange Server 2010 migration that significantly enhances support for on-the-go employees by offering tight integration with popular wireless handheld devices including BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's RIM BlackBerry specialists can in addition help your company to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Support
Progent's system management consultants offer in-depth experience with key virtual server platforms and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtual technologies engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's consultants can show you ways to incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtual server solution that optimizes speed, increases availability, streamlines administration, speeds up restoration time, and lowers your investment in equipment and support. For example, Progent's engineers can assist you to utilize Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers offer Windows Server 2008 consulting support to help you to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's latest server technology and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is tightly incorporated into a powerful IT network based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent can assist you to install and analyze test systems, create and execute a migration plan that reduces operations disruption, solidify your network architecture, bolster your security, and implement server and storage clustering and virtualization configurations that enhance the business value of your information system.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can assist your organization to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s latest client technology operates productively with Exchange 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration and support services include cost/benefit analysis, project management, test evaluations under realistic workloads, minimally intrusive deployment of Windows 7 clients, extensive documentation, interactive webinar training for desktop workers and network administrators, plus ongoing IT help from Progent's low-cost online help desk support services.

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