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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 show in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the release of Exchange 2010. With a new design that improves uptime, strengthens security and compliance, lowers cost of ownership, and simplifies management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of the next generation of information technology solutions designed to enhance business productivity and profitability.

Exchange Server 2010’s enhancements in the field of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and provide fast, unassisted restoration from hard disk or processor failures without complicated hardware clustering schemes. Features like retention management policies, role-based access management, and block or quarantine lists for mobile devices strengthen protection. To improve return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can conserve up to 20% on operational costs, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on hard disk systems. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Ships Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad selection of Exchange 2010 integration skills and can help your business to evaluate the advantages and costs of implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, conduct pilot simulations to verify the functionality and performance of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your environment, design a Microsoft Exchange 2010 implementation that enhances the uptime, security, and productivity of your email system, produce a practical upgrade strategy that reduces business disruption and maximizes the use of current hardware, deliver low-cost online and on-premises support to carry out your migration to Exchange 2010, produce comprehensive documentation of your upgraded email system, train your network support team and users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing management and technical support.

Progent focuses in providing remote engineering and technical support, which can save you significant time and money during your migration to Exchange Server 2010. By delivering fast remote access to certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the expense and delay associated with onsite service. For environments that require in-person assistance, Progent can send a consulting professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network consultants can provide a selection of other affordable support services to enhance the productivity, uptime, protection, performance, and manageability of email environments powered by Exchange 2010:

Network Architecture and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent offers the assistance of Cisco CCIE experts to help your business to enhance your network architecture to exploit the high-availability, protection, and mobile access features built into Exchange Server 2010. Progent can show you cost-effective ways to set up Cisco network appliances to attain the top degree of system uptime, security, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals specialize in providing remote assistance so that your company can benefit from world-class network expertise at a price that small businesses can handle.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security engineers can provide a variety of cost-effective security inventory scanning service packages that give companies of any size a chance to have an objective, expert opinion about the suitability of their network security scheme for integration with Exchange 2010. These set-price security scanning packages range from a low-cost external security evaluation offering for small organizations up to a high-level offering for businesses who need to meet security standards demanded by state or industry mandates or by clients. For each security assessment package, engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and document automatically collected data and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning consultants can assist you to create a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume essential network functions in case of an IT network collapse due to natural disaster, malicious assault, hardware problems, human mistakes, or other causes. Progent can assist your company to create a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes periodic emergency recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help your business to design and build an economical, fault-tolerant network infrastructure that takes into account resilience issues covering a broad array of system technologies and procedures including clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also provide Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration expertise to help you configure DPM for ongoing online system backup and rapid recovery.

Wireless Email Consulting for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email engineers can reduce hassle and costs by helping you to identify, set up, administer, and troubleshoot mobile productivity technologies that make sense for your business goals. Progent can help you to carry out an Exchange 2010 migration that significantly improves the productivity of on-the-go workers by offering tight connectivity with major wireless handsets such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry experts can in addition assist you to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Expertise
Progent's system management consultants have in-depth experience with key virtualization technologies and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual server help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's consultants can show your company ways to incorporate Exchange 2010 into a virtualized machine environment that optimizes performance, improves availability, streamlines administration, reduces data recovery time, and significantly lowers your investment in equipment and maintenance. As an example, Progent's engineers can show you how to utilize Windows Hyper-V's support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your company's virtual network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 engineering support to help you to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and ensure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art IT environment powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can help your company to install and evaluate pilot systems, create and carry out an upgrade strategy that minimizes operations interruptions, solidify your network architecture, fortify your security, and implement clustering and machine virtualization configurations that improve the business value of your IT environment.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can assist your business to install, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s most advanced client technology operates efficiently with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost/benefit assessment, project management, pilot evaluations under realistic workloads, minimally disruptive deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, extensive project documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop users and system administrators, plus ongoing IT help via Progent's low-cost remote help desk services.

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