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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 show in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Equipped with an innovative architecture that increases uptime, strengthens security and compliance, reduces cost of ownership, and streamlines management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of the next generation of IT solutions created to enhance business efficiency 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 copy mailboxes and provide rapid, unassisted recovery from hard disk or processor failures without complex hardware clustering configurations. Innovations like retention management policies, role-based connection management, and block or quarantine control for wireless handsets strengthen protection. To accelerate ROI, Exchange 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk systems. To see Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Business with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a broad range of Exchange 2010 support skills and can help your business to evaluate the benefits and risks of deploying Exchange 2010, conduct realistic simulations to determine the operation and throughput of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your network, plan an Exchange Server 2010 solution that improves the uptime, security, and capability of your messaging system, produce an efficient rollout strategy that reduces business interruption and maximizes the utilization of existing equipment, deliver low-cost online and on-premises help to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010, generate extensive documentation of your new messaging environment, train your IT staff and users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and offer ongoing administrative and engineering support.

Progent specializes in providing remote engineering and network support services, which can save your company significant time and expense in the course of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By offering rapid online access to Microsoft-certified Exchange experts, Progent avoids the cost and delay associated with on-premises support. For situations that call for hands-on assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting expert to any state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's IT consultants offer a variety of additional affordable support services to enhance the productivity, fault tolerance, protection, speed, and ease of administration of messaging systems based on Exchange 2010:

Network Design and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Network Experts
Progent offers the knowledge of Cisco Certified CCIE network engineers to assist you to enhance your connectivity infrastructure to support the fault-tolerance, security, and wireless connectivity technologies included with Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain cost-effective ways to configure Cisco switches and routers to attain the top degree of system fault tolerance, security, and capacity. Progent's CCIE professionals specialize in providing online support so that your organization can get world-class network expertise at a cost that small organizations can afford.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISA and GIAC certified network security engineers can oversee a variety of affordable security inventory scanning service packages that give companies of any size an opportunity to get an unbiased, expert assessment about the strength of their security scheme for supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment service bundles range from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to an advanced package for businesses who need to meet security standards required by state mandates or by clients. For each security assessment package, consultants with top security certifications analyze and report on scanned information and make recommendations for sensible improvements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning engineers can help you to create a business continuity strategy so you can resume essential business operations in the event of an IT system breakdown brought about by natural disaster, malicious attack, hardware failure, human error, or other sources. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster response drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also assist your business to build an economical, high-availability network infrastructure that addresses reliability issues concerning a wide range of network technologies and processes such as clustering, system load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also provide System Center Data Protection Manager support expertise to help you configure DPM for continual online network backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Email Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless email consultants can minimize management stress and costs by helping your company to identify, set up, manage, and troubleshoot mobile messaging solutions that align with your business. Progent can assist you to execute a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 migration that significantly improves the productivity of mobile workers by providing seamless integration with popular wireless handheld devices including BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can also assist you to integrate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization Support
Progent's system management engineers have certified experience with major virtual server platforms and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show your company ways to incorporate Exchange 2010 into a virtualized machine solution that optimizes speed, improves uptime, streamlines management, 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 unify the management of your virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting support to assist your company to install, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server technology and ensure that Exchange Server 2010 is tightly integrated into a state-of-the-art IT environment powered by Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent can help your company to set up and analyze test simulations, create and execute a migration strategy that reduces business interruptions, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your protection, and implement clustering and machine virtualization options that improve the strategic value of your information network.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can help you to install, manage, and support Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s most powerful client technology operates efficiently with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration and support services include cost and risk analysis, project management, pilot installations under realistic conditions, minimally intrusive rollout of Windows 7 clients, thorough project documentation, interactive webinar training for desktop workers and system managers, plus continuing technical help via Progent's low-cost remote help desk support services.

To find out additional information about Progent's support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.