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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the production release of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Built with a new structure that improves uptime, bolsters protection, reduces deployment costs, and simplifies management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of a new generation of IT solutions designed to enhance business efficiency and bottom-line profit.

Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that continuously replicate mailboxes and offer fast, automatic restoration from hard disk or processor breakdowns without complex clustering configurations. Features such as retention control policies, role-based connection control, and allow/block or quarantine lists for wireless devices strengthen protection. To accelerate ROI, Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on operational costs, 50% on server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk systems. To read Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Consultants Can Assist Your Business with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can provide a broad range of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 support skills and can assist your business to evaluate the benefits and costs of deploying Exchange 2010, manage realistic testing to verify the operation and performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, plan a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 configuration that improves the uptime, protection, and capability of your email system, create a practical rollout strategy that reduces operational interruption and maximizes the utilization of existing hardware, provide affordable online and on-premises support to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010, generate thorough documentation of your new messaging system, train your IT team and end users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange 2010, and offer ongoing management and engineering help.

Progent specializes in offering remote engineering and technical support services, which can save your company significant time and money during your move to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By offering fast online access to certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the cost and business interruption attached to on-premises service. For situations that require hands-on assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network consultants offer a variety of other low-cost support services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, protection, performance, and manageability of messaging environments powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide the assistance of Cisco Certified CCIE network engineers to assist your business to optimize your connectivity architecture to benefit from the fault-tolerance, protection, and mobile access features included with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can explain economical ways to configure Cisco switches and routers to attain the highest level of system uptime, security, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals specialize in providing online assistance so that your organization can get enterprise-class network consulting at a cost that small businesses can afford.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA and GIAC certified network security engineers can oversee a variety of cost-effective security vulnerability scanning service packages that give companies of any size a chance to get an objective, expert assessment about the strength of their security scheme for supporting Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price security scanning service bundles range from a low-cost external security evaluation offering for small companies up to a high-level offering for institutions who have to meet security standards required by state or industry regulations or by clients. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security credentials examine and document scanned data and make suggestions for sensible improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery consultants can assist you to design a business continuity strategy so you can restore essential business operations in case of an information system collapse due to natural events, malicious assault, hardware failure, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent can help you to create a complete workplace recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT experts can also help you to establish an affordable, high-uptime system architecture that addresses dependability issues concerning a broad range of network technologies and processes such as server clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also provide Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration services to assist you deploy DPM for continual online data backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Email Consulting for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless messaging experts can reduce hassle and costs by helping your company to select, set up, administer, and troubleshoot wireless messaging technologies that align with your business. Progent's consultants can assist you to execute an Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically enhances support for mobile workers by offering tight integration with popular wireless handheld devices including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can in addition assist you to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's system management professionals offer in-depth experience with key virtual server platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show you how to incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server solution that maximizes speed, increases uptime, simplifies management, reduces data recovery time, and significantly lowers your costs for equipment and support. As an example, Progent can assist you to utilize Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your company's virtualized environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers offer Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support services to help you to install, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's latest server technology and make sure that Exchange 2010 is seamlessly incorporated into a state-of-the-art information network based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's consultants can assist you to set up and analyze pilot systems, create and carry out an upgrade strategy that minimizes operations disruption, strengthen your network infrastructure, bolster your security, and set up server and storage clustering and machine virtualization configurations that enhance the business value of your information network.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your organization to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s latest client platform operates productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade services include cost/benefit assessment, project management, test installations under authentic workloads, minimally intrusive deployment of Windows 7 clients, extensive documentation, webinar training for desktop users and system administrators, plus ongoing IT help from Progent's economical online help desk services.

For additional information about Progent's consulting and support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.