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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the production release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Equipped with a new structure that increases uptime, strengthens security, lowers cost of ownership, and simplifies administration, Exchange Server 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of a new wave of IT platforms designed to increase business productivity and profits.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010's enhancements in the field of fault tolerance include the use of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and offer rapid, unassisted restoration from disk or server failures without complex hardware clustering schemes. Features like retention management policies, role-based connection control, and block or quarantine control for wireless handsets bolster protection. To improve return on investment, Microsoft Exchange 2010 can conserve up to 20% on support costs, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk storage. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a wide selection of Exchange Server 2010 consulting support skills and can help your business to evaluate the advantages and risks of implementing Exchange Server 2010, manage realistic testing to determine the functionality and throughput of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange Server 2010 implementation that enhances the uptime, protection, and capability of your messaging system, create a practical migration strategy that avoids business disruption and optimizes the use of existing equipment, provide low-cost remote and onsite support to execute your migration to Exchange 2010, generate comprehensive documentation of your upgraded email system, educate your IT team and end users to get them ramped up rapidly on Microsoft Exchange 2010, and offer continuing administrative and engineering support.

Progent focuses in providing remote consulting and technical support, which can save your business both time and money during your migration to Exchange Server 2010. By delivering rapid remote access to Microsoft-certified Exchange professionals, Progent eliminates the expense and business interruption associated with on-premises support. For situations that call for in-person assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's IT professionals can provide a range of other affordable support services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, protection, performance, and ease of administration of messaging systems powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Infrastructure Architecture and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent offers the assistance of Cisco Certified CCIE network engineers to help you to enhance your connectivity architecture to support the high-availability, protection, and mobile connectivity features built into Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective ways to set up Cisco network appliances to attain the highest degree of network uptime, protection, and capacity. Progent's CCIE engineers are experts in delivering online support so that you can benefit from enterprise-class network consulting at a price that small businesses can handle.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISA certified network security consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective security inventory evaluation service packages that offer organization of any size an opportunity to have an unbiased, professional assessment about the suitability of their security environment for supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price assessment packages vary from an inexpensive external security evaluation package for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who have to meet security standards demanded by state or industry mandates or by clients. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security certifications examine and report on automatically collected information and make suggestions for sensible enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's disaster recovery experts can assist you to create a workplace recovery plan so your business can restore essential network functions in the event of an information network collapse due to natural events, cyber attack, hardware problems, human error, or other sources. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to create a complete business continuity plan that includes periodic disaster recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also assist you to establish an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account dependability issues concerning a broad array of network technologies and processes such as server clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer System Center Data Protection Manager support services to assist you deploy DPM for continual online system backup and rapid recovery.

Mobile Email Consulting for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless messaging engineers can reduce management stress and costs by helping your company to identify, configure, manage, and troubleshoot wireless messaging solutions that align with your business. Progent can help your organization to carry out an Exchange 2010 migration that significantly improves the productivity of mobile workers by offering seamless integration with major mobile handheld devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry specialists can also help your company to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution.

Virtualization Consulting
Progent's network management professionals offer certified experience with major virtualization platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's engineers can show your company ways to integrate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into a virtualized server environment that maximizes speed, improves availability, streamlines management, speeds up data recovery time, and lowers your costs for equipment and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can help you to use Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your company's virtualized environment.

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support services to assist you to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server product and ensure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a powerful IT environment powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can help you to set up and analyze pilot systems, create and execute an upgrade strategy that minimizes operations disruption, solidify your network infrastructure, fortify your protection, and implement clustering and virtualization configurations that improve the strategic value of your information network.

Windows 7 Migration and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your business to configure, manage, and support Microsoft Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft's most advanced client technology operates productively with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent's Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk assessment, project management, pilot installations under realistic workloads, minimally disruptive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, extensive documentation, webinar classes for desktop workers and system managers, plus continuing technical assistance via Progent's low-cost online help desk services.

To find out more information about Progent's consulting and support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.