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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 show in Germany, Microsoft's Stephen Elop announced the production release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Built with a new design that increases availability, bolsters security, lowers cost of ownership, and streamlines management, Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of the next generation of information technology solutions created to increase business productivity and profitability.

Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and provide rapid, automatic restoration from disk or processor breakdowns without complicated clustering configurations. Innovations like retention control policies, role-based connection management, and block or quarantine lists for wireless devices improve protection. To improve return on investment, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on hard disk storage. To read Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help Your Business with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a wide range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 support skills and can help you to assess the benefits and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage pilot testing to determine the functionality and throughput of Exchange 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange Server 2010 implementation that improves the availability, security, and capability of your email system, produce a practical migration strategy that minimizes business disruption and maximizes the use of existing equipment, deliver low-cost remote and on-premises help to carry out your migration to Exchange Server 2010, generate thorough documentation of your upgraded email system, train your network support staff and users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange 2010, and offer continuing management and engineering support.

Progent specializes in offering remote engineering and network support services, which can save your business both time and money in the course of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By offering fast online access to certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the expense and business interruption associated with on-premises support. For environments that require in-person help, Progent can dispatch a support professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network professionals can deliver a variety of additional low-cost services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, security, speed, and ease of administration of email environments powered by Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Design and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Experts
Progent offers the knowledge of Cisco CCIE experts to assist you to optimize your connectivity architecture to support the high-availability, security and compliance, and wireless connectivity technologies built into Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective techniques to deploy Cisco network appliances to attain the highest degree of network fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE professionals are experts in providing online consulting so that you can get enterprise-class network infrastructure expertise at a cost that small organizations can handle.

Security Vulnerability Scanning Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified network security consultants can provide a variety of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service packages that give companies of any size an opportunity to receive an unbiased, expert assessment about the suitability of their security scheme for integration with Exchange 2010. These fixed-price assessment service bundles vary from a low-cost external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to an advanced package for businesses who have to comply with security criteria demanded by state regulations or by customers. For every security evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security certifications analyze and document scanned information and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning consultants can assist you to create a workplace recovery strategy so you can resume essential business functions in case of an information system breakdown due to natural events, cyber attack, equipment problems, human mistakes, or other sources. Progent can help your company to create a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes periodic emergency response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help your business to establish an economical, high-availability system infrastructure that addresses resilience issues covering a wide array of network technologies and procedures including server clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager support services to help you configure DPM for ongoing online data backup and rapid restoration.

Wireless Messaging Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile email engineers can reduce hassle and expenses by helping your company to select, set up, administer, and support wireless messaging technologies that make sense for your business. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to carry out a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 migration that dramatically enhances the productivity of on-the-go employees by offering tight integration with popular wireless handsets including BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can in addition help your company to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 solution.

Virtualization Support
Progent's network management engineers offer certified experience with major virtualization platforms and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtualization help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show you ways to integrate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual server solution that optimizes performance, increases uptime, simplifies management, speeds up restoration time, and lowers your investment in equipment and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can help you to use Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtual environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 engineering services to assist your company to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server platform and ensure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is tightly integrated into a powerful information network powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent can help your company to install and evaluate pilot simulations, create and execute an upgrade plan that reduces business disruption, solidify your network architecture, bolster your protection, and implement clustering and machine virtualization options that improve the business value of your information system.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to install, administer, and support Microsoft Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft’s latest client platform operates productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk assessment, project management, pilot installations under realistic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Windows 7 desktops, comprehensive documentation, webinar training for desktop users and system administrators, plus continuing IT assistance from Progent's economical remote help desk services.

To find out more details about Progent's support for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.