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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft's Stephen Elop introduced the production release of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Built with an innovative architecture that increases availability, bolsters security, lowers costs, and simplifies administration, Exchange 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of a new generation of information technology platforms created to enhance business efficiency and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s enhancements in the area of fault tolerance include the use of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and provide rapid, automatic restoration from disk or server failures without complicated clustering configurations. Innovations like retention management policies, role-based access control, and allow/block or quarantine control for mobile devices improve security and compliance. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can save up to 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk storage. To view Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Assist You with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified engineers can provide a wide range of Exchange Server 2010 integration services and can assist your business to evaluate the advantages and risks of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage realistic simulations to verify the operation and performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your network, plan a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 configuration that improves the uptime, protection, and productivity of your email system, create a practical rollout strategy that reduces operational interruption and optimizes the utilization of current hardware, deliver affordable remote and on-premises support to carry out your move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, generate thorough documentation of your new email system, educate your IT team and end users to get them ramped up quickly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and provide continuing management and technical support.

Progent focuses in offering online engineering and network support, which can save you significant time and expense in the course of your move to Exchange 2010. By offering fast remote contact with Microsoft-certified Exchange experts, Progent eliminates the expense and business interruption attached to on-premises service. For environments that call for hands-on assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network consultants can provide a selection of additional affordable services to improve the productivity, fault tolerance, security, speed, and ease of administration of messaging environments based on Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent can provide the knowledge of Cisco Certified CCIE experts to assist you to optimize your network architecture to benefit from the high-availability, protection, and wireless access features included with Exchange Server 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective ways to deploy Cisco switches and routers to achieve the top level of network fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers are experts in delivering online support so that your organization can get enterprise-class network infrastructure expertise at a cost that small companies can handle.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISA certified network security engineers can oversee a variety of cost-effective security vulnerability evaluation service packages that offer companies of any size a chance to have an objective, expert assessment about the suitability of their security environment for integration with Microsoft Exchange 2010. These set-price security scanning service bundles range from a low-cost external security evaluation package for small organizations up to a high-level offering for institutions who have to meet security criteria required by state or industry mandates or by customers. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security certifications analyze and report on scanned data and offer suggestions for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's disaster recovery consultants can assist you to design a business continuity strategy so your business can restore critical network functions in the event of an IT system collapse brought about by natural events, malicious assault, hardware problems, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent can assist your organization to develop a comprehensive business continuity strategy that incorporates periodic emergency response drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also assist your business to build an affordable, high-availability network infrastructure that addresses reliability issues covering a broad range of system technologies and processes including server and storage clustering, system load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent's engineers can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration services to help you deploy DPM for continual online network backup and rapid restoration.

Mobile Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email consultants can reduce hassle and expenses by helping you to select, configure, administer, and support wireless productivity solutions that align with your business. Progent's consultants can help your organization to carry out an Exchange 2010 upgrade that significantly enhances the productivity of mobile workers by providing tight connectivity with major mobile handheld devices including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry experts can also help you to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Exchange Server 2010 solution.

Virtualization Expertise
Progent's seasoned network management engineers have certified experience with key virtual server technologies and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtualization engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's consultants can show you how to incorporate Exchange 2010 into a virtualized machine environment that optimizes speed, improves uptime, simplifies administration, reduces data recovery time, and lowers your investment in equipment and support. For example, Progent can help you to utilize Hyper-V's support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your virtual network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to help your company to install, manage, and support Microsoft's most advanced server platform and ensure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art information environment powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can help you to install and analyze pilot systems, create and execute a migration strategy that minimizes operations interruptions, strengthen your network infrastructure, fortify your security, and implement clustering and virtualization configurations that enhance the business value of your IT environment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to install, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft’s most advanced client technology functions efficiently with Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk assessment, project management, pilot evaluations under authentic workloads, minimally disruptive deployment of Windows 7 desktops, comprehensive project documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and system administrators, plus continuing IT help from Progent's economical online help desk support services.

For additional details about Progent's support for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.