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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the release of Exchange 2010. With an innovative design that increases uptime, strengthens security and compliance, lowers cost of ownership, and streamlines administration, Exchange 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of the next generation of IT platforms designed to enhance business efficiency and profitability.

Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of fault tolerance include the use of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and offer fast, unassisted recovery from disk or processor failures without complicated hardware clustering schemes. Features such as retention management policies, role-based connection control, and block or quarantine lists for wireless handsets bolster security. To improve return on investment, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can save up to 20% on support expenses, 50% on server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk storage. To view Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Releases Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help Your Business with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants offer a wide selection of Exchange Server 2010 consulting support skills and can help you to evaluate the benefits and risks of implementing Exchange Server 2010, conduct pilot testing to verify the functionality and throughput of Exchange 2010 in your environment, design a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 implementation that enhances the uptime, protection, and capability of your email system, produce a practical rollout plan that avoids operational disruption and optimizes the utilization of existing equipment, deliver affordable online and onsite support to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010, generate thorough documentation of your new messaging environment, train your network support staff and end users to get them ramped up rapidly on Exchange 2010, and offer ongoing management and engineering support.

Progent specializes in offering online engineering and network support services, which can save your company significant time and expense in the course of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By offering rapid remote access to Microsoft-certified Exchange experts, Progent avoids the cost and business interruption associated with on-premises support. For situations that call for on-premises assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting expert to any state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT consultants can provide a range of other affordable support services to improve the efficiency, fault tolerance, security, performance, and manageability of email systems based on Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent offers the knowledge of Cisco CCIE network experts to help your business to optimize your network infrastructure to exploit the high-availability, protection, and wireless access technologies incorporated in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent can show you economical ways to configure Cisco switches and routers to attain the highest degree of system fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE professionals are experts in providing online consulting so that you can benefit from enterprise-class network expertise at a price that small companies can handle.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISA certified network security consultants can provide a selection of affordable security inventory scanning service bundles that offer companies of any size an opportunity to receive an unbiased, professional assessment about the suitability of their network security environment for supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price security scanning service bundles range from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to a high-level offering for businesses who have to meet security criteria demanded by state or industry regulations or by business partners. For each security assessment package, consultants with high-level security certifications analyze and document automatically collected data and make recommendations for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning consultants can assist your company to create a disaster recovery strategy so you can restore critical network functions in the event of an IT system breakdown brought about by natural events, cyber attack, hardware problems, human error, or other sources. Progent's consultants can help your company to develop a complete workplace recovery strategy that incorporates periodic emergency recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized IT experts can also assist your business to establish an economical, high-availability network architecture that addresses dependability issues covering a wide range of network technologies and processes such as server clustering, load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also provide Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration services to help you configure DPM for continual online data backup and rapid recovery.

Mobile Email Consulting for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless email engineers can minimize hassle and costs by helping your company to identify, configure, administer, and troubleshoot mobile productivity solutions that make sense for your business goals. Progent's consultants can help your organization to execute an Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically enhances support for mobile employees by providing seamless connectivity with popular mobile handheld devices such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry experts can also assist you to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization Help
Progent's seasoned network management engineers have in-depth expertise in key virtual server technologies and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual server engineering services, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's engineers can show you ways to incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtual machine environment that maximizes performance, increases uptime, simplifies management, reduces restoration time, and lowers your costs for equipment and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can show you how to use Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtual environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can provide Windows Server 2008 engineering support to assist your company to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art IT environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can assist you to set up and analyze test simulations, create and carry out an upgrade strategy that reduces operations disruption, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your security, and implement server and storage clustering and machine virtualization configurations that improve the strategic value of your information environment.

Windows 7 Migration and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can help your business to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to ensure that Microsoft’s most advanced client platform functions efficiently with Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration and support services include cost and risk assessment, project management, pilot evaluations under authentic conditions, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, thorough project documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop workers and system administrators, plus ongoing technical assistance from Progent's economical online help desk services.

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