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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Berlin, Microsoft's Stephen Elop introduced the release of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Built with a new structure that increases uptime, strengthens security, lowers cost of ownership, and simplifies administration, Exchange Server 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as part of the next generation of IT solutions created to increase business efficiency 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 offer rapid, unassisted restoration from hard disk or server failures without complex hardware clustering configurations. Features like retention management policies, role-based connection control, and allow/block or quarantine lists for mobile devices strengthen security. To accelerate ROI, Exchange Server 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on hard disk subsystems. To read Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help You with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad selection of Exchange 2010 consulting skills and can help you to evaluate the benefits and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage realistic testing to determine the functionality and throughput of Exchange 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange Server 2010 implementation that enhances the uptime, protection, and productivity of your messaging system, create a practical upgrade plan that avoids business interruption and optimizes the utilization of current equipment, provide affordable remote and on-premises help to execute your move to Exchange Server 2010, produce extensive documentation of your new email system, train your IT team and end users to get them ramped up quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer ongoing administrative and engineering help.

Progent specializes in offering online engineering and network support services, which can save you both time and money during your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By delivering fast online access to Microsoft-certified Exchange professionals, Progent avoids the expense and business interruption attached to on-premises service. For environments that require hands-on help, Progent can dispatch a consulting expert to every state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network professionals can deliver a variety of additional low-cost services to enhance the productivity, uptime, security, speed, and manageability of email systems based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Network Experts
Progent can provide the knowledge of Cisco CCIE network experts to assist you to enhance your connectivity architecture to support the fault-tolerance, security, and mobile connectivity features incorporated in Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective ways to set up Cisco network appliances to achieve the top level of system fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers are experts in delivering remote support so that you can benefit from world-class network expertise at a cost that small companies can afford.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified security consultants can oversee a selection of cost-effective security vulnerability scanning service packages that offer organization of any size a chance to receive an objective, expert assessment about the suitability of their network security scheme for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price assessment service bundles vary from an inexpensive external security evaluation package for small organizations up to an advanced package for institutions who have to comply with security criteria demanded by state or industry regulations or by clients. For every security evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security certifications examine and report on automatically collected data and offer suggestions for efficient enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning experts can assist your company to create a workplace recovery plan so your business can resume essential business functions in the event of an information network collapse brought about by natural events, cyber assault, equipment failure, human error, or other sources. Progent can assist you to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT experts can also assist you to establish an affordable, high-availability network architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a broad array of network technologies and processes including server clustering, load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent's engineers can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager support expertise to assist you configure DPM for continual online system backup and rapid restoration.

Mobile Email Consulting for RIM BlackBerry, iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless email consultants can minimize hassle and costs by helping you to identify, set up, administer, and troubleshoot wireless productivity solutions that align with your business. Progent's consultants can help you to execute an Exchange Server 2010 upgrade that significantly enhances support for on-the-go workers by offering seamless integration with major wireless handsets such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry consultants can also assist your company to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Help
Progent's seasoned network management professionals offer in-depth experience with key virtualization platforms and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtual server help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show you how to incorporate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtualized server environment that maximizes performance, increases availability, streamlines management, reduces data recovery time, and significantly lowers your costs for equipment and support. For example, Progent can show you how to use Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the management of your company's virtualized network.

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support services to assist you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Exchange 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a powerful IT environment based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can assist you to set up and analyze pilot systems, create and execute an upgrade plan that minimizes operations disruption, strengthen your network architecture, bolster your protection, and set up server and storage clustering and virtualization configurations that improve the strategic value of your information network.

Windows 7 Migration and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can help your organization to install, manage, and support Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft’s most powerful client platform functions efficiently with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk analysis, project management, test evaluations under authentic conditions, minimally disruptive deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, comprehensive documentation, interactive webinar training for desktop users and system administrators, plus ongoing IT assistance via Progent's low-cost online help desk services.

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