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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 show in Berlin, Microsoft's Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Exchange Server 2010. Built with an innovative structure that increases availability, strengthens security and compliance, reduces cost of ownership, and simplifies administration, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 teams with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of a new generation of information technology platforms created to increase business productivity and profitability.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that continuously copy mailboxes and offer fast, automatic recovery from disk or server breakdowns without complex hardware clustering configurations. Features such as retention management policies, role-based connection management, and allow/block or quarantine lists for mobile devices improve security and compliance. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk subsystems. To see Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Delivers Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Consultants Can Assist You with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a broad range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 integration services and can help you to assess the benefits and costs of implementing Exchange 2010, conduct pilot testing to verify the operation and performance of Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, design a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 configuration that enhances the availability, protection, and productivity of your messaging system, create a practical rollout strategy that minimizes business interruption and maximizes the utilization of current hardware, deliver low-cost remote and onsite help to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, generate extensive documentation of your upgraded email system, educate your IT staff and end users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange 2010, and provide continuing administrative and engineering help.

Progent focuses in offering online consulting and network support services, which can save your business both time and money in the course of your upgrade to Exchange 2010. By offering fast remote contact with certified Exchange professionals, Progent avoids the expense and business interruption attached to onsite support. For environments that require in-person help, Progent can dispatch a support professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the United States.

Progent's IT consultants offer a selection of other affordable services to enhance the efficiency, uptime, protection, speed, and ease of administration of email environments based on Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Network Experts
Progent can provide the skills of Cisco CCIE engineers to help you to optimize your connectivity architecture to support the high-availability, protection, and mobile access technologies incorporated in Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain cost-effective ways to deploy Cisco switches and routers to attain the top degree of system fault tolerance, protection, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals are experts in delivering remote consulting so that you can get world-class network infrastructure expertise at a cost that small businesses can afford.

Security Vulnerability Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security consultants can provide a selection of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service packages that give organization of any size a chance to receive an objective, professional assessment about the strength of their network security environment for supporting Exchange 2010. These set-price assessment service bundles range from a low-cost external security evaluation offering for small organizations up to an advanced package for businesses who have to meet security criteria demanded by state or industry mandates or by business partners. For every security evaluation package, engineers with high-level security certifications analyze and report on scanned data and make suggestions for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning experts can assist your company to create a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume critical business operations in the event of an information system collapse due to natural disaster, malicious assault, hardware failure, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent can help your organization to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also assist you to build an economical, high-availability system infrastructure that addresses resilience issues concerning a wide array of network technologies and processes such as clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer System Center Data Protection Manager support expertise to assist you configure DPM for ongoing remote data backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Email Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email engineers can reduce hassle and expenses by helping you to select, set up, manage, and troubleshoot mobile messaging technologies that make sense for your business. Progent can help your organization to carry out an Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically improves the productivity of on-the-go employees by offering seamless integration with major wireless handheld devices such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry specialists can in addition assist your company to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Expertise
Progent's seasoned network management professionals offer in-depth experience with key virtualization platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual consulting, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show you how to incorporate Exchange 2010 into a virtual server environment that maximizes speed, increases availability, simplifies administration, speeds up data recovery time, and significantly lowers your investment in hardware and maintenance. As an example, Progent can assist you to utilize Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your company's virtual network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to assist you to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server product and make sure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is seamlessly incorporated into a state-of-the-art information network powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can assist you to set up and evaluate test systems, create and carry out an upgrade plan that minimizes business interruptions, solidify your network infrastructure, fortify your security, and set up server and storage clustering and machine virtualization options that improve the strategic value of your IT environment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can help your business to install, manage, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to ensure that Microsoft’s most powerful client technology operates productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 migration and support services include cost/benefit assessment, project management, pilot evaluations under authentic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, comprehensive project documentation, webinar training for desktop users and system administrators, plus continuing IT help via Progent's economical online help desk support services.

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