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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 show in Germany, Microsoft's Stephen Elop introduced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Built with an innovative design that improves uptime, strengthens protection, reduces cost of ownership, and simplifies administration, Microsoft Exchange 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as a member of a new wave of information technology platforms designed to increase business efficiency and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010's enhancements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and provide rapid, automatic recovery from disk or server breakdowns without complicated clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention management policies, role-based access management, and allow/block or quarantine lists for mobile devices bolster security and compliance. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can save up to 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk systems. To see Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a wide range of Exchange Server 2010 consulting support skills and can help your business to evaluate the benefits and costs of implementing Exchange 2010, conduct realistic testing to determine the operation and throughput of Exchange 2010 in your environment, plan an Exchange Server 2010 solution that improves the uptime, protection, and productivity of your email system, produce an efficient upgrade strategy that minimizes operational interruption and optimizes the use of current hardware, provide low-cost remote and onsite help to execute your migration to Exchange 2010, produce extensive documentation of your new email system, educate your IT team and users to get them ramped up quickly on Exchange 2010, and provide ongoing management and engineering support.

Progent specializes in offering remote engineering and technical support, which can save your company significant time and expense during your move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By delivering rapid online access to certified Exchange experts, Progent eliminates the cost and delay associated with onsite service. For situations that call for on-premises assistance, Progent can send a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT consultants can deliver a selection of other affordable services to improve the efficiency, uptime, protection, speed, and ease of administration of email systems powered by Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Design and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent offers the expertise of Cisco Certified CCIE engineers to help you to enhance your connectivity infrastructure to exploit the fault-tolerance, security, and wireless connectivity technologies included with Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate economical techniques to configure Cisco network appliances to attain the highest level of network uptime, protection, and performance. Progent's CCIE professionals specialize in providing remote support so that you can benefit from enterprise-class network infrastructure consulting at a cost that small companies can handle.

Security Vulnerability Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified security consultants can oversee a selection of affordable security inventory scanning service packages that offer companies of any size an opportunity to receive an objective, expert opinion about the suitability of their network security scheme for supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price security scanning packages vary from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment package for small companies up to an advanced offering for businesses who need to meet security standards demanded by government mandates or by clients. For every security assessment package, engineers with top security certifications examine and document automatically collected data and make recommendations for efficient enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's backup and recovery consultants can assist your company to design a disaster recovery plan so your business can resume critical business functions in case of an information network breakdown brought about by natural events, malicious attack, equipment failure, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to create a complete business continuity strategy that incorporates periodic emergency response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT experts can also help you to design and build an affordable, high-availability network infrastructure that takes into account reliability issues covering a broad array of network technologies and procedures such as server clustering, load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also offer System Center Data Protection Manager integration expertise to assist you configure DPM for ongoing remote network backup and fast restoration.

Wireless Email Consulting for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile messaging experts can reduce hassle and costs by helping your company to select, configure, manage, and troubleshoot mobile productivity technologies that align with your business. Progent can help your organization with a Microsoft Exchange 2010 upgrade that significantly enhances the productivity of mobile workers by offering tight connectivity with popular wireless handheld devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry specialists can in addition assist you to integrate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

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

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Integration Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers offer Windows Server 2008 consulting support to help your company to install, manage, and support Microsoft's most advanced server product and make sure that Exchange 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art information environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can assist your company to set up and evaluate test systems, develop and execute a migration strategy that minimizes business disruption, strengthen your network infrastructure, bolster your protection, and set up clustering and virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your IT system.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your organization to install, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft's most powerful client technology functions productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent's Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk analysis, project management, test installations under realistic workloads, minimally disruptive rollout of Windows 7 desktops, comprehensive project documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop workers and system managers, plus continuing technical assistance from Progent's economical remote help desk support services.

For more information about Progent's consulting for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.