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At the Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Equipped with a new structure that increases availability, strengthens security, lowers costs, and simplifies management, Exchange Server 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of the next wave of IT platforms designed to increase business productivity and profits.

Microsoft Exchange 2010's improvements in the area of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and offer fast, automatic restoration from hard disk or server breakdowns without complex clustering schemes. Features such as retention control policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine lists for wireless handsets bolster security. To improve ROI, Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk subsystems. To see Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help Your Business with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad selection of Microsoft Exchange 2010 integration skills and can assist your business to assess the advantages and costs of implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, conduct pilot simulations to determine the operation and performance of Exchange 2010 in your network, plan an Exchange 2010 implementation that improves the uptime, security, and capability of your messaging system, create an efficient upgrade plan that avoids business disruption and optimizes the use of existing equipment, deliver affordable online and onsite help to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, produce comprehensive documentation of your upgraded messaging system, educate your IT team and users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing management and engineering support.

Progent specializes in providing remote consulting and network support services, which can save you significant time and money during your move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By offering rapid remote contact with certified Exchange 2010 experts, Progent eliminates the expense and delay attached to on-premises service. For environments that require in-person help, Progent can send a support expert to any state and the majority of zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network professionals can deliver a range of other affordable support services to improve the productivity, availability, protection, speed, and ease of administration of messaging environments based on Exchange 2010:

Network Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide the assistance of Cisco CCIE engineers to assist your business to optimize your connectivity architecture to exploit the high-availability, protection, and wireless connectivity technologies included with Exchange Server 2010. Progent can show you cost-effective ways to set up Cisco switches and routers to achieve the highest level of system uptime, security, and capacity. Progent's CCIE professionals are experts in providing online consulting so that your organization can get world-class network expertise at a price that small organizations can handle.

Security Vulnerability Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security engineers can oversee a selection of cost-effective security inventory scanning service packages that offer organization of any size a chance to have an objective, expert assessment about the strength of their security environment for supporting Exchange 2010. These fixed-price assessment service bundles vary from a low-cost external security evaluation package for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who have to meet security standards required by state or industry regulations or by business partners. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security certifications examine and report on scanned data and offer suggestions for efficient enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can assist your company to design a disaster recovery plan so you can restore essential network functions in case of an information system collapse brought about by natural events, malicious attack, hardware failure, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent's consultants can assist you to create a complete business continuity strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help your business to build an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account dependability issues concerning a broad range of system technologies and procedures including server and storage clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also provide Data Protection Manager support expertise to assist you configure DPM for continual online data backup and rapid restoration.

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

Virtualization and Server Management Support
Progent's network management consultants have in-depth experience with major virtualization platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show you ways to incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtual machine solution that optimizes performance, improves uptime, simplifies management, reduces data recovery time, and lowers your investment in equipment and support. For example, Progent's engineers can show you how to utilize Hyper-V's integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your virtual environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 consulting support to assist you to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's latest server product and ensure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art information environment based on Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can help your company to set up and analyze pilot systems, develop and execute a migration strategy that reduces business disruption, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your protection, and set up clustering and virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your information environment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft's most advanced client platform operates productively with Exchange Server 2010. Progent's Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk assessment, project management, test installations under authentic conditions, minimally disruptive rollout of Windows 7 desktops, thorough project documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and network managers, plus continuing IT help from Progent's economical online help desk services.

To find out additional details about Progent's support services for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.