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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. With a new structure that improves uptime, bolsters security, reduces deployment costs, and streamlines administration, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as a member of the next generation of information technology solutions created to increase business productivity and profitability.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and offer rapid, automatic restoration from hard disk or server breakdowns without complex clustering configurations. Features such as retention control policies, role-based access management, and block or quarantine lists for wireless handsets strengthen security and compliance. To improve ROI, Exchange 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on support costs, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk storage. To view Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Ships Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Engineers Can Help You with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a wide selection of Microsoft Exchange 2010 consulting skills and can help you to evaluate the benefits and risks of implementing Exchange Server 2010, manage pilot testing to verify the operation and throughput of Exchange Server 2010 in your network, design an Exchange 2010 configuration that improves the uptime, protection, and capability of your messaging system, produce a practical upgrade strategy that avoids operational disruption and maximizes the utilization of existing equipment, provide affordable remote and onsite support to execute your move to Exchange Server 2010, produce extensive documentation of your upgraded email environment, educate your IT staff and users to get them ramped up rapidly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and provide continuing management and technical support.

Progent focuses in offering online consulting and technical support services, which can save your company significant time and expense in the course of your move to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By delivering rapid online contact with certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the expense and delay attached to onsite support. For situations that call for hands-on assistance, Progent can send a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network professionals can provide a selection of additional low-cost services to enhance the productivity, uptime, security, performance, and manageability of email systems powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

Infrastructure Architecture and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Network Experts
Progent can provide the assistance of Cisco Certified CCIE network engineers to help your business to enhance your connectivity infrastructure to benefit from the high-availability, protection, and wireless access technologies included with Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective techniques to set up Cisco network appliances to achieve the top degree of network uptime, protection, and capacity. Progent's CCIE professionals specialize in delivering remote assistance so that your company can benefit from world-class network consulting at a price that small businesses can afford.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA and GIAC certified network security engineers can oversee a variety of cost-effective security inventory scanning service packages that offer organization of any size an opportunity to have an unbiased, expert opinion about the strength of their network security scheme for integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price security scanning service bundles range from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment package for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who need to comply with security criteria demanded by state or industry regulations or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, engineers with high-level security certifications analyze and report on scanned data and offer recommendations for sensible enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery consultants can help you to design a workplace recovery plan so you can resume essential business functions in the event of an IT network collapse due to natural disaster, cyber assault, equipment problems, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT experts can also help you to design and build an economical, fault-tolerant network infrastructure that takes into account reliability issues concerning a broad array of system technologies and processes including clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also provide Data Protection Manager integration services to help you configure DPM for continual remote system backup and fast restoration.

Mobile Email Expertise for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless messaging consultants can reduce hassle and expenses by assisting your company to identify, set up, administer, and troubleshoot wireless productivity solutions that align with your business goals. Progent can assist your organization to execute an Exchange Server 2010 upgrade that significantly enhances support for mobile employees by providing seamless integration with popular wireless handsets such as BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can also assist you to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization Expertise
Progent's system management engineers have certified expertise in major virtual server platforms and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show you how to incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server environment that optimizes performance, increases uptime, simplifies management, reduces restoration time, and lowers your investment in hardware and support. As an example, Progent's engineers can help you to utilize Windows Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your company's virtualized network.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Integration Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 engineering services to help your company to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server product and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art IT network based on Windows Server 2008. Progent can help your company to install and analyze pilot systems, develop and carry out a migration strategy that minimizes business disruption, solidify your network architecture, fortify your security, and set up clustering and machine virtualization configurations that improve the strategic value of your IT environment.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can assist your organization to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft’s latest client platform operates efficiently with Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration and support services include cost/benefit analysis, project management, pilot installations under realistic workloads, minimally intrusive deployment of Windows 7 desktops, extensive documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and network administrators, plus ongoing technical assistance from Progent's economical remote help desk support services.

To find out additional details about Progent's support services for Microsoft Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.