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At the Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft's Stephen Elop introduced the release of Exchange Server 2010. Built with an innovative design that increases availability, strengthens security, lowers costs, and streamlines administration, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of a new wave of IT solutions designed to increase business efficiency and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange 2010's enhancements in the area of system uptime include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and provide fast, automatic restoration from hard disk or processor breakdowns without complex hardware clustering schemes. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine lists for wireless handsets bolster protection. To accelerate ROI, Exchange 2010 can conserve up to 20% on support expenses, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk systems. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help Your Business with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a wide range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 consulting support services and can help your business to assess the advantages and risks of implementing Exchange 2010, manage pilot testing to determine the operation and performance of Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange 2010 solution that enhances the availability, security, and capability of your messaging system, produce an efficient upgrade strategy that minimizes business disruption and maximizes the use of existing hardware, deliver affordable remote and on-premises support to carry out your migration to Exchange 2010, produce comprehensive documentation of your upgraded messaging environment, train your IT staff and end users to get them ramped up rapidly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and offer ongoing management and technical help.

Progent specializes in providing online engineering and network support, which can save you both time and expense in the course of your move to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By delivering fast online contact with certified Exchange professionals, Progent avoids the cost and delay attached to onsite service. For environments that call for hands-on help, Progent can send a consulting expert to every state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network consultants offer a range of additional affordable support services to improve the efficiency, availability, security, performance, and manageability of email environments powered by Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Design and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Experts
Progent offers the assistance of Cisco Certified CCIE engineers to help your business to enhance your connectivity infrastructure to exploit the fault-tolerance, security, and wireless access technologies included with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate economical techniques to configure Cisco network appliances to attain the highest degree of network fault tolerance, protection, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals are experts in delivering online consulting so that your organization can get enterprise-class network expertise at a price that small companies can afford.

Security Vulnerability Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified security engineers can oversee a selection of cost-effective security inventory evaluation service packages that offer companies of any size an opportunity to receive an objective, expert opinion about the suitability of their security scheme 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 need to comply with security standards demanded by government regulations or by customers. For every security evaluation package, consultants with top security credentials examine and report on automatically collected data and make recommendations for efficient enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's backup and recovery experts can assist your company to design a business continuity plan so your business can resume essential business functions in the event of an information system breakdown due to natural events, cyber assault, equipment failure, human mistakes, or other sources. Progent's consultants can help your organization to develop a complete business continuity strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also assist your business to design and build an affordable, high-uptime network infrastructure that takes into account resilience issues covering a wide range of network technologies and procedures such as server and storage clustering, load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also provide System Center Data Protection Manager integration expertise to assist you deploy DPM for ongoing remote system backup and rapid restoration.

Mobile Messaging Consulting for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless email consultants can reduce management stress and costs by helping your company to select, set up, manage, and support wireless messaging solutions that align with your business. Progent can assist you to execute a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 migration that significantly enhances support for mobile workers by providing tight integration with popular wireless handheld devices such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry experts can also help you to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Support
Progent's system management professionals have in-depth expertise in key virtualization technologies and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtualization engineering services, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's consultants can show your company how to integrate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server solution that optimizes speed, increases uptime, streamlines administration, reduces restoration time, and significantly lowers your investment in equipment and support. As an example, Progent's engineers can show you how to utilize Windows Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your company's virtual network.

Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 engineering services to assist you to install, administer, and support Microsoft's latest server technology and make sure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art information network powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent can help you to install and analyze pilot simulations, create and carry out an upgrade plan that minimizes operations interruptions, strengthen your network infrastructure, fortify your protection, and set up clustering and virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your IT investment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 desktops to ensure that Microsoft's latest client platform functions efficiently with Exchange 2010. Progent's Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk assessment, project management, test evaluations under authentic conditions, minimally intrusive rollout of Windows 7 clients, comprehensive documentation, webinar training for desktop workers and system administrators, plus ongoing IT help via Progent's low-cost online help desk support services.

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