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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 show in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the release of Exchange Server 2010. With a new structure that improves uptime, strengthens security, lowers cost of ownership, and streamlines administration, Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of the next generation of IT solutions designed to increase business productivity and bottom-line profit.

Exchange 2010's enhancements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that continuously copy mailboxes and offer fast, unassisted restoration from disk or processor failures without complex hardware clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based connection management, and block or quarantine lists for mobile handsets bolster protection. To accelerate ROI, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can save up to 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk storage. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Releases Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Engineers Can Help Your Business with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can provide a wide range of Exchange 2010 support services and can help your business to assess the benefits and risks of deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, conduct pilot simulations to determine the functionality and performance of Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange 2010 configuration that enhances the availability, security, and capability of your email system, create an efficient rollout plan that reduces operational disruption and maximizes the utilization of current hardware, provide affordable online and on-premises support to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010, produce extensive documentation of your new messaging environment, train your IT team and end users to get them ramped up rapidly on Exchange 2010, and provide continuing management and technical help.

Progent specializes in providing online consulting and technical support, which can save your company both time and expense during your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By offering rapid remote access to Microsoft-certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the expense and business interruption associated with on-premises support. For situations that require in-person assistance, Progent can send a support professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network professionals can deliver a range of other low-cost support services to enhance the productivity, fault tolerance, protection, performance, and manageability of email environments powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Network Experts
Progent offers the assistance of Cisco Certified CCIE network engineers to help your business to optimize your connectivity infrastructure to benefit from the fault-tolerance, security and compliance, and wireless connectivity features incorporated in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain economical ways to configure Cisco network appliances to attain the highest level of network fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers specialize in delivering remote assistance so that your company can benefit from world-class network infrastructure expertise at a cost that small businesses can handle.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified network security consultants can oversee a variety of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service bundles that offer companies of any size an opportunity to have an unbiased, expert assessment about the strength of their security scheme for integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price security scanning packages vary from an inexpensive external security evaluation offering for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who need to meet security criteria required by state mandates or by clients. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and document scanned data and offer suggestions for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's backup and recovery experts can assist you to create a disaster recovery strategy so your business can resume essential network functions in the event of an information network collapse due to natural events, cyber assault, hardware problems, operator error, or other sources. Progent's consultants can help your organization to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized IT experts can also assist your business to design and build an economical, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account dependability issues covering a broad range of network technologies and procedures including server clustering, system load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also offer Data Protection Manager support expertise to help you deploy DPM for ongoing remote network backup and fast recovery.

Wireless Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile messaging experts can reduce management stress and costs by assisting your company to identify, set up, manage, and support wireless messaging technologies that align with your business goals. Progent can help your organization to carry out a Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically improves the productivity of mobile workers by providing tight integration with major mobile handsets including BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry specialists can also help your company to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization Consulting
Progent's system management consultants have in-depth experience with major virtual server platforms and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server consulting, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's certified professionals can show you how to integrate Exchange 2010 into a virtual machine environment that optimizes performance, increases uptime, simplifies management, reduces restoration time, and lowers your costs for hardware and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can assist you to use Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your company's virtual environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can provide Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to help your company to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server product and ensure that Exchange 2010 is tightly integrated into a powerful information network powered by Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent can assist you to set up and evaluate test systems, create and execute an upgrade plan that minimizes operations disruption, solidify your network infrastructure, bolster your security, and set up clustering and virtualization options that improve the strategic value of your IT network.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 desktops to ensure that Microsoft's most advanced client platform operates productively with Exchange 2010. Progent's Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk analysis, project management, pilot installations under authentic workloads, minimally disruptive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, thorough project documentation, webinar classes for desktop workers and system managers, plus ongoing technical assistance via Progent's economical remote help desk services.

For additional details concerning Progent's consulting and support services for Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.