Exchange Server 2010 ExpertiseAt the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the worldwide availability of Exchange 2010. Equipped with an innovative structure that improves uptime, bolsters protection, lowers deployment costs, and streamlines management, Exchange 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of the next generation of information technology platforms designed to enhance business productivity and profits.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the field of fault tolerance include the use of database availability groups that continuously replicate mailboxes and offer rapid, automatic recovery from disk or processor breakdowns without complex hardware clustering configurations. Innovations like retention management policies, role-based connection management, and allow/block or quarantine control for wireless devices strengthen protection. To improve ROI, Microsoft Exchange 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on support costs, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk systems. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Releases Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help Your Business with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers offer a broad range of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 consulting skills and can help your business to assess the advantages and costs of deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, conduct pilot simulations to determine the operation and performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, plan an Exchange Server 2010 solution that enhances the uptime, security, and capability of your messaging system, produce a practical migration strategy that minimizes business interruption and maximizes the use of existing hardware, provide low-cost remote and onsite help to carry out your migration to Exchange 2010, produce extensive documentation of your new email system, educate your network support staff and users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange 2010, and offer ongoing administrative and engineering support.

Progent specializes in providing remote consulting and technical support services, which can save your business significant time and money in the course of your migration to Exchange Server 2010. By offering rapid online contact with certified Exchange experts, Progent avoids the cost and business interruption associated with onsite service. For environments that require hands-on assistance, Progent can send a support professional to any state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's IT professionals offer a selection of other low-cost services to improve the efficiency, uptime, protection, speed, and ease of administration of email environments powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Network Experts
Progent offers the expertise of Cisco CCIE engineers to help you to optimize your connectivity architecture to exploit the high-availability, protection, and wireless connectivity features included with Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain cost-effective techniques to set up Cisco switches and routers to achieve the highest level of network uptime, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE engineers are experts in delivering online consulting so that you can benefit from enterprise-class network expertise at a cost that small organizations can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security engineers can provide a selection of cost-effective security vulnerability evaluation service bundles that give companies of any size a chance to get an unbiased, expert assessment about the suitability of their security scheme for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price assessment service bundles vary from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment offering for small organizations up to an advanced package for institutions who need to meet security standards demanded by state or industry mandates or by business partners. For each security assessment package, consultants with top security credentials examine and document automatically collected data and offer suggestions for efficient improvements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's disaster recovery consultants can assist you to create a business continuity strategy so you can resume essential network functions in the event of an information network breakdown due to natural disaster, malicious attack, hardware problems, operator error, or other sources. Progent's consultants can help your company to develop a comprehensive workplace recovery plan that incorporates periodic emergency recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help your business to establish an affordable, high-availability system infrastructure that addresses resilience issues concerning a broad array of network technologies and processes such as server and storage clustering, system load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also offer Data Protection Manager integration expertise to assist you configure DPM for continual online data backup and rapid recovery.

Wireless Email Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile email engineers can minimize management stress and expenses by helping you to identify, set up, administer, and troubleshoot mobile productivity technologies that align with your business. Progent can assist your organization to execute a Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration that significantly enhances the productivity of on-the-go workers by offering seamless connectivity with popular wireless handsets such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's RIM BlackBerry specialists can in addition assist you to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization Help
Progent's seasoned network management engineers have in-depth experience with key virtualization platforms and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtualization engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show you ways to incorporate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual machine environment that optimizes performance, increases uptime, simplifies administration, speeds up restoration time, and significantly lowers your costs for equipment and support. As an example, Progent's engineers can help you to use Windows Hyper-V's support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer Windows Server 2008 engineering support to assist your company to configure, administer, and support Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is tightly integrated into a powerful information environment based on Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can help your company to install and analyze pilot simulations, develop and carry out an upgrade plan that reduces business interruptions, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your protection, and set up clustering and machine virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your IT network.

Windows 7 Migration and Desktop Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s most advanced client platform operates efficiently with Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk analysis, project management, test evaluations under authentic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, extensive documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and network administrators, plus continuing IT assistance from Progent's low-cost online help desk support services.

To find out more information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.