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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the release of Exchange Server 2010. With an innovative design that increases availability, strengthens protection, reduces deployment costs, and simplifies administration, Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as part of the next wave of IT platforms designed to enhance business efficiency 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 provide fast, automatic recovery from disk or processor failures without complicated clustering schemes. Innovations such as retention management policies, role-based access management, and allow/block or quarantine lists for wireless handsets strengthen security and compliance. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on support costs, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk subsystems. To see Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Engineers Can Assist You with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified engineers can provide a wide range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 integration skills and can help you to evaluate the benefits and costs of deploying Exchange 2010, conduct realistic testing to determine the operation and throughput of Exchange Server 2010 in your network, design an Exchange Server 2010 solution that improves the availability, security, and productivity of your messaging system, produce a practical rollout strategy that reduces operational disruption and optimizes the use of existing hardware, provide low-cost online and onsite help to execute your migration to Exchange 2010, generate comprehensive documentation of your upgraded messaging environment, train your IT team and users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing management and technical support.

Progent specializes in offering online consulting and network support, which can save your business both time and money in the course of your migration to Exchange Server 2010. By delivering rapid remote contact with Microsoft-certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the cost and delay associated with onsite support. For environments that require in-person assistance, Progent can send a consulting professional to any state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's IT consultants can deliver a range of additional low-cost services to improve the productivity, uptime, security, speed, and ease of administration of messaging environments based on Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Infrastructure Design and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide the expertise of Cisco Certified CCIE engineers to help you to enhance your network architecture to benefit from the high-availability, security and compliance, and wireless access features incorporated in Exchange Server 2010. Progent can demonstrate economical techniques to deploy Cisco switches and routers to attain the highest degree of network fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE engineers are experts in providing remote assistance so that you can benefit from world-class network consulting at a cost that small businesses can afford.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security engineers can provide a selection of affordable security inventory scanning service bundles that give organization of any size a chance to get an objective, professional assessment about the strength of their network security environment for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment service bundles vary from a low-cost external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to an advanced package for institutions who need to meet security criteria demanded by state or industry regulations or by business partners. For each security evaluation bundle, consultants with top security certifications examine and document scanned information and offer suggestions for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's business continuity planning experts can help your company to design a disaster recovery strategy so your business can restore essential business operations in the event of an IT network collapse due to natural events, malicious assault, hardware problems, operator mistakes, or other sources. Progent's consultants can help you to develop a comprehensive business continuity plan that includes periodic emergency recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help your business to design and build an economical, high-uptime system architecture that takes into account reliability issues concerning a wide array of network technologies and processes including server and storage clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration services to assist you configure DPM for continual online network backup and rapid restoration.

Mobile Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless messaging engineers can reduce management stress and expenses by helping you to select, configure, administer, and support mobile messaging technologies that align with your business. Progent can assist you with an Exchange Server 2010 migration that dramatically enhances support for on-the-go workers by providing tight integration with popular mobile handsets including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry specialists can also help you to integrate BlackBerry BES Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Help
Progent's network management consultants offer in-depth expertise in key virtual server technologies and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual consulting, VMware virtual technologies engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show your company ways to integrate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtualized server solution that maximizes speed, improves availability, streamlines administration, reduces data recovery time, and lowers your investment in hardware and support. For example, Progent can help you to use Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the management of your virtual network.

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support services to assist you to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's most advanced server product and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is seamlessly incorporated into a state-of-the-art IT network powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can assist your company to set up and evaluate pilot systems, create and execute an upgrade strategy that minimizes operations interruptions, strengthen your network infrastructure, fortify your protection, and set up server and storage clustering and machine virtualization configurations that improve the business value of your information investment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to install, manage, and support Microsoft Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft’s latest client technology functions productively with Exchange 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk assessment, project management, test evaluations under authentic conditions, minimally intrusive rollout of Windows 7 desktops, thorough documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and system managers, plus continuing IT assistance from Progent's low-cost online help desk services.

For more details concerning Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.