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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange 2010. With an innovative structure that increases availability, strengthens security and compliance, reduces deployment costs, and simplifies management, Exchange Server 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of the next wave of information technology platforms designed to enhance business productivity and profits.

Exchange 2010’s improvements in the area of fault tolerance include the use of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and provide fast, unassisted restoration from disk or processor failures without complicated hardware clustering configurations. Features like retention management policies, role-based access control, and allow/block or quarantine lists for mobile devices bolster protection. To accelerate ROI, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on hard disk storage. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers offer a broad selection of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 consulting support skills and can assist your business to evaluate the benefits and risks of deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, manage pilot testing to determine the operation and throughput of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your network, design an Exchange 2010 implementation that improves the uptime, security, and productivity of your email system, create a practical upgrade plan that reduces operational disruption and maximizes the utilization of current equipment, provide affordable online and onsite help to execute your migration to Exchange 2010, produce extensive documentation of your new email system, educate your network support staff and end users to get them ramped up quickly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and provide continuing management and engineering help.

Progent focuses in offering remote engineering and network support services, which can save your company both time and money in the course of your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By delivering fast remote contact with certified Exchange 2010 experts, Progent eliminates the cost and delay attached to onsite support. For environments that call for on-premises assistance, Progent can send a consulting professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the United States.

Progent's IT consultants offer a range of other affordable support services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, protection, performance, and manageability of email environments powered by Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Experts
Progent offers the expertise of Cisco CCIE experts to help you to enhance your network infrastructure to exploit the high-availability, security and compliance, and mobile access features incorporated in Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain cost-effective techniques to deploy Cisco switches and routers to attain the highest level of system fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers specialize in providing remote support so that your company can benefit from enterprise-class network consulting at a cost that small companies can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA and GIAC certified network security consultants can provide a selection of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service packages that give organization of any size a chance to have an unbiased, professional assessment about the strength of their network security environment for supporting Microsoft Exchange 2010. These set-price assessment packages range 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 criteria demanded by government mandates or by customers. For each security evaluation bundle, engineers with top security certifications examine and report on automatically collected information and make recommendations for efficient enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's business continuity planning engineers can assist your company to design a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume critical business functions in case of an IT network breakdown brought about by natural disaster, cyber attack, equipment failure, human mistakes, or other sources. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic emergency recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also assist your business to design and build an economical, high-uptime network architecture that takes into account dependability issues covering a broad array of system technologies and processes such as clustering, system load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Data Protection Manager support services to help you configure DPM for ongoing online data backup and fast restoration.

Wireless Messaging Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless messaging experts can reduce management stress and costs by helping your company to select, set up, manage, and support mobile productivity technologies that align with your business. Progent's consultants can help your organization to execute a Microsoft Exchange 2010 upgrade that dramatically enhances the productivity of mobile workers by offering tight connectivity with popular mobile handsets including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry specialists can also assist you to integrate BlackBerry BES Server into your Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Support
Progent's network management consultants have in-depth expertise in major virtual server platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtualization engineering services, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's consultants can show your company ways to integrate Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server solution that optimizes speed, improves uptime, streamlines management, speeds up data recovery time, and lowers your investment in equipment and support. As an example, Progent's engineers can help you to use Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your virtualized environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide Windows Server 2008 consulting services to assist your company to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's latest server technology and make sure that Exchange Server 2010 is tightly integrated into a powerful IT network based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can assist you to set up and evaluate pilot simulations, develop and execute a migration plan that reduces business disruption, strengthen your network infrastructure, bolster your protection, and implement server and storage clustering and machine virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your IT environment.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s latest client technology operates efficiently with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost/benefit assessment, project management, test evaluations under authentic workloads, minimally disruptive deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, extensive project documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop workers and system administrators, plus ongoing technical help from Progent's economical online help desk services.

To find out more information about Progent's support services for Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.