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At the Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the worldwide availability of Exchange 2010. Built with an innovative architecture that increases uptime, bolsters security and compliance, lowers deployment costs, and simplifies management, Exchange Server 2010 joins Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of a new generation of information technology platforms created to enhance business productivity and profitability.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010's enhancements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that continuously replicate mailboxes and provide fast, automatic recovery from disk or server failures without complicated clustering schemes. Features like retention management policies, role-based access control, and allow/block or quarantine lists for mobile devices bolster security. To accelerate return on investment, Exchange Server 2010 can save as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on disk storage. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Assist Your Business with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a wide selection of Exchange 2010 consulting support skills and can assist your business to evaluate the benefits and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange 2010, conduct realistic simulations to determine the functionality and performance of Exchange Server 2010 in your network, plan a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 configuration that improves the availability, security, and capability of your email system, create an efficient upgrade plan that minimizes business interruption and optimizes the use of current equipment, deliver affordable remote and on-premises help to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, generate thorough documentation of your upgraded email system, educate your network support staff and end users to get them up to speed quickly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing administrative and engineering help.

Progent specializes in providing remote engineering and technical support, which can save your business significant time and expense during your upgrade to Exchange 2010. By offering rapid online access to Microsoft-certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the cost and business interruption associated with on-premises service. For situations that call for on-premises assistance, Progent can send a support expert to any state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT consultants can deliver a variety of additional low-cost support services to improve the efficiency, uptime, protection, speed, and manageability of messaging systems powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent can provide the knowledge of Cisco CCIE network engineers to help you to enhance your connectivity infrastructure to benefit from the fault-tolerance, security, and mobile connectivity features incorporated in Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can show you cost-effective ways to configure Cisco switches and routers to attain the top level of system fault tolerance, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE engineers specialize in delivering online assistance so that you can get enterprise-class network consulting at a price that small businesses can afford.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified security engineers can oversee a variety of cost-effective security inventory scanning service packages that give organization of any size a chance to get an unbiased, expert assessment about the suitability of their network security environment for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment packages range from a low-cost external security scan and assessment offering for small organizations up to an advanced offering for businesses who need to meet security standards demanded by government regulations or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and document scanned information and make suggestions for efficient enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's backup and recovery consultants can assist you to create a workplace recovery plan so your business can restore essential network functions in the event of an information system breakdown brought about by natural events, cyber assault, hardware problems, operator error, or other causes. Progent can assist you to create a complete business continuity strategy that includes periodic emergency recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also assist your business to establish an economical, high-uptime network infrastructure that takes into account resilience issues concerning a wide array of network technologies and procedures such as server clustering, system load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also offer Data Protection Manager integration services to assist you configure DPM for ongoing online network backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Email Consulting for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email experts can minimize management stress and costs by assisting you to select, configure, manage, and troubleshoot wireless messaging solutions that make sense for your business. Progent's consultants can help your organization to execute a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 migration that dramatically enhances the productivity of mobile employees by offering seamless integration with major mobile handheld devices including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can in addition assist you to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's seasoned network management professionals offer in-depth expertise in key virtualization technologies and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server consulting, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's engineers can show your company how to integrate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtualized server environment that optimizes speed, improves uptime, streamlines management, reduces data recovery time, and lowers your investment in equipment and support. For example, Progent's engineers can assist you to use Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtualized environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's latest server technology and make sure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art information environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can assist your company to install and analyze test systems, create and execute a migration plan that minimizes operations interruptions, solidify your network infrastructure, fortify your security, and set up clustering and machine virtualization options that enhance the business value of your IT system.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to configure, manage, and support Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft's most powerful client platform operates efficiently with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent's Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk analysis, project management, test installations under realistic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, thorough project documentation, interactive webinar training for desktop users and network administrators, plus continuing IT help from Progent's economical remote help desk services.

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