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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 show in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Exchange Server 2010. With a new structure that improves uptime, strengthens security and compliance, reduces deployment costs, and simplifies administration, Exchange 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of a new generation of IT platforms created to enhance business productivity and profitability.

Exchange 2010’s improvements 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 breakdowns without complex hardware clustering schemes. Features like retention management policies, role-based connection management, and allow/block or quarantine lists for mobile devices improve security and compliance. To improve ROI, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on hard disk storage. To view Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Consultants Can Assist Your Business with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 consulting support services and can help you to evaluate the advantages and costs of implementing Exchange 2010, manage pilot simulations to verify the functionality and performance of Exchange 2010 in your network, plan a Microsoft Exchange 2010 configuration that enhances the uptime, protection, and productivity of your messaging system, create a practical upgrade strategy that minimizes operational interruption and optimizes the use of existing equipment, deliver low-cost remote and on-premises help to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, produce thorough documentation of your upgraded messaging environment, train your IT team and users to get them up to speed quickly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing management and engineering support.

Progent specializes in offering remote consulting and technical support services, which can save your business both time and expense in the course of your move to Exchange 2010. By delivering rapid online contact with certified Exchange experts, Progent eliminates the expense and delay associated with on-premises service. For environments that require in-person assistance, Progent can send a support professional to every state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network consultants can deliver a selection of additional affordable services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, security, performance, and manageability of email environments based on Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Infrastructure Design and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide the assistance of Cisco Certified CCIE experts to help your business to optimize your connectivity architecture to exploit the high-availability, security and compliance, and mobile connectivity technologies incorporated in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain cost-effective ways to deploy Cisco network appliances to attain the highest level of network uptime, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE engineers are experts in delivering online support so that your organization can get world-class network infrastructure consulting at a price that small businesses can handle.

Security Vulnerability Scanning Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified security consultants can oversee a variety of cost-effective security inventory scanning service packages that give companies of any size an opportunity to get an unbiased, professional assessment about the strength of their network security environment for integration with Microsoft Exchange 2010. These fixed-price assessment service bundles vary from a low-cost external security evaluation offering for small organizations up to an advanced package for institutions who have to comply with security criteria demanded by state or industry mandates or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and document scanned information and make recommendations for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Archiving
Progent's backup and recovery experts can assist your company to create a business continuity strategy so you can restore critical business operations in case of an information network breakdown brought about by natural disaster, cyber attack, hardware problems, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent's consultants can help your company to develop a comprehensive workplace recovery strategy that incorporates periodic emergency response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help your business to build an economical, high-availability network infrastructure that takes into account reliability issues concerning a broad array of network technologies and procedures such as server clustering, system load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent's engineers can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager support expertise to help you deploy DPM for ongoing remote system backup and fast restoration.

Wireless Email Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile email engineers can minimize hassle and expenses by helping your company to identify, configure, manage, and troubleshoot mobile productivity technologies that make sense for your business. Progent can help your organization to carry out a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 upgrade that significantly enhances support for on-the-go workers by offering seamless connectivity with popular mobile handsets such as BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's RIM BlackBerry specialists can also assist your company to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Expertise
Progent's network management professionals have certified expertise in major virtualization platforms and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual consulting, VMware virtualization help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show your company how to integrate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual server solution that optimizes performance, improves availability, simplifies management, reduces data recovery time, and lowers your costs for equipment and support. For example, Progent's engineers can assist you to utilize Windows Hyper-V's integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtual environment.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Integration Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 engineering services to help your company to install, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server platform and ensure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art information network based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can assist you to install and analyze test simulations, create and carry out an upgrade plan that reduces operations disruption, solidify your network architecture, fortify your protection, and set up server and storage clustering and machine virtualization configurations that enhance the business value of your IT network.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can assist you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to ensure that Microsoft’s most powerful client technology operates productively with Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk analysis, project management, pilot installations under realistic workloads, minimally intrusive deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, thorough project documentation, webinar training for desktop users and network administrators, plus continuing technical assistance from Progent's economical online help desk support services.

For more details about Progent's consulting and support for Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.