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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 show in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. With a new design that improves uptime, bolsters security and compliance, lowers cost of ownership, and simplifies management, Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of a new generation of information technology solutions designed to increase business productivity and profitability.

Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of system uptime include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and offer rapid, automatic recovery from hard disk or server breakdowns without complex hardware clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based connection control, and block or quarantine control for mobile handsets bolster protection. To improve return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk subsystems. To view 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 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified engineers offer a broad selection of Exchange 2010 support services and can help you to assess the benefits and costs of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010, conduct pilot testing to determine the operation and throughput of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your environment, design a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 solution that improves the availability, security, and capability of your messaging system, produce a practical upgrade plan that avoids business disruption and optimizes the use of current equipment, deliver affordable remote and onsite help to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, produce thorough documentation of your new messaging system, educate your IT staff and users to get them ramped up rapidly on Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing management and technical help.

Progent focuses in offering remote consulting and technical support services, which can save your company significant time and expense during your move to Exchange Server 2010. By offering fast remote contact with certified Exchange experts, Progent avoids the cost and delay attached to onsite service. For environments that require hands-on help, Progent can send a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network professionals offer a variety of other affordable services to enhance the productivity, uptime, security, performance, and manageability of email systems based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent can provide the expertise of Cisco CCIE network engineers to assist your business to optimize your connectivity architecture to exploit the fault-tolerance, security, and wireless connectivity features incorporated in Exchange 2010. Progent can show you economical ways to deploy Cisco switches and routers to attain the top level of network uptime, protection, and capacity. Progent's CCIE engineers are experts in providing remote consulting so that you can get enterprise-class network consulting at a cost that small companies can afford.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified network security consultants can provide a selection of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service bundles that offer companies of any size an opportunity to receive an objective, expert opinion about the strength of their network security scheme for integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment packages range from an inexpensive external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to a high-level package for businesses who have to meet security standards required by state or industry mandates or by business partners. For each security evaluation package, engineers with high-level security certifications examine and report on scanned data and offer suggestions for efficient improvements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery experts can help your company to create a business continuity plan so your business can resume essential business operations in the event of an information system collapse brought about by natural disaster, cyber attack, hardware failure, human mistakes, or other causes. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to develop a comprehensive workplace recovery strategy that includes scheduled emergency recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT experts can also help your business to establish an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account resilience issues covering a wide array of system technologies and procedures including server clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Data Protection Manager integration services to help you deploy DPM for continual remote data backup and fast restoration.

Mobile Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless messaging engineers can minimize hassle and expenses by assisting you to select, configure, administer, and support wireless productivity technologies that align with your business goals. Progent's consultants can assist you to execute an Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically improves support for mobile employees by offering seamless connectivity with major mobile handheld devices such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry experts can also assist your company to integrate BlackBerry BES Server into your Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization Support
Progent's seasoned network management professionals offer in-depth experience with key virtual server technologies and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server consulting, VMware virtual technologies engineering services, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's engineers can show your company how to integrate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtual server solution that optimizes performance, increases availability, streamlines administration, reduces restoration time, and lowers your investment in hardware and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can assist you to use Hyper-V's integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to assist your company to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art IT environment based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can help you to install and evaluate pilot simulations, create and execute a migration strategy that minimizes operations interruptions, strengthen your network architecture, bolster your protection, and set up clustering and virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your information network.

Windows 7 Migration and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can assist your business to configure, administer, and support Microsoft Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s latest client platform functions efficiently with Exchange 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration and support services include cost and risk assessment, project management, pilot installations under authentic workloads, minimally disruptive deployment of Windows 7 clients, comprehensive project documentation, interactive webinar training for desktop workers and system managers, plus continuing IT help from Progent's economical online help desk services.

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