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At the Tech•Ed 2009 show in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the release of Exchange Server 2010. Equipped with a new architecture that increases availability, strengthens security, lowers deployment costs, and simplifies management, Exchange 2010 teams with Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as part of a new wave of IT solutions created to enhance business efficiency and profitability.

Microsoft Exchange 2010's enhancements in the field of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that continuously replicate mailboxes and offer rapid, unassisted recovery from disk or server failures without complicated clustering schemes. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine control for mobile devices strengthen security and compliance. To accelerate ROI, Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on hard disk subsystems. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Releases Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Business with Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad range of Exchange Server 2010 support skills and can help you to assess the benefits and costs of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage realistic testing to determine the functionality and throughput of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your network, design a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 implementation that enhances the availability, security, and capability of your email system, create a practical rollout plan that avoids operational interruption and optimizes the utilization of current equipment, provide low-cost remote and on-premises help to carry out your move to Microsoft Exchange 2010, generate thorough documentation of your upgraded email environment, educate your network support staff and users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange 2010, and provide ongoing administrative and technical support.

Progent specializes in providing online engineering and technical support services, which can save you both time and money during your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By delivering fast online contact with certified Exchange 2010 experts, Progent eliminates the cost and business interruption attached to on-premises service. For environments that call for hands-on assistance, Progent can send a support professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network consultants can provide a variety of additional affordable services to improve the productivity, fault tolerance, security, speed, and ease of administration of email environments powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Network Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide the expertise of Cisco CCIE network engineers to assist you to optimize your connectivity architecture to exploit the fault-tolerance, security and compliance, and wireless access features built into Exchange 2010. Progent can explain economical techniques to set up Cisco network appliances to achieve the highest level of network fault tolerance, protection, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals are experts in delivering remote assistance so that you can get world-class network infrastructure consulting at a price that small businesses can afford.

Security Vulnerability Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified network security engineers can oversee a selection of cost-effective security vulnerability scanning service bundles that give companies of any size an opportunity to receive an unbiased, expert opinion about the strength of their network security environment for integration with Exchange 2010. These set-price security scanning service bundles vary from a low-cost external security scan and assessment package for small companies up to an advanced offering for institutions who need to comply with security criteria required by state or industry mandates or by customers. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and report on automatically collected data and offer recommendations for sensible enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can help your company to design a business continuity plan so you can restore essential business operations in the event of an IT system collapse brought about by natural disaster, cyber attack, hardware failure, operator mistakes, or other causes. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled emergency response drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you to establish an economical, fault-tolerant network infrastructure that addresses dependability issues covering a broad range of system technologies and processes including server and storage clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also offer Data Protection Manager support expertise to assist you deploy DPM for ongoing online data backup and rapid recovery.

Wireless Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile messaging engineers can minimize hassle and costs by assisting you to identify, set up, manage, and support mobile productivity technologies that make sense for your business. Progent's consultants can help you with an Exchange Server 2010 migration that significantly enhances support for mobile employees by providing seamless integration with popular mobile handsets including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can in addition assist your company to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Support
Progent's system management professionals offer certified expertise in key virtualization platforms and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtual server engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show you ways to incorporate Exchange 2010 into a virtual server solution that optimizes speed, increases availability, simplifies management, speeds up restoration time, and lowers your costs for equipment and support. For example, Progent can assist you to utilize Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your company's virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Integration Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's latest server product and make sure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is seamlessly incorporated into a powerful IT network powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can assist you to set up and analyze pilot systems, develop and carry out a migration strategy that minimizes operations disruption, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your security, and implement server and storage clustering and machine virtualization options that enhance the strategic value of your information system.

Windows 7 Migration and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to install, manage, and troubleshoot Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft's most powerful client technology functions productively with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent's Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost/benefit assessment, project management, pilot installations under authentic conditions, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, comprehensive project documentation, webinar classes for desktop workers and network administrators, plus continuing IT help from Progent's low-cost online help desk support services.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.