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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 show in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the release of Exchange 2010. With an innovative structure that increases availability, strengthens security, lowers cost of ownership, and streamlines management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 teams with Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of the next generation of information technology solutions created to enhance business productivity and profitability.

Microsoft Exchange 2010's enhancements in the field of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and provide fast, unassisted recovery from hard disk or processor failures without complex hardware clustering schemes. Innovations like retention management policies, role-based connection management, and block or quarantine lists for mobile handsets strengthen security and compliance. To accelerate ROI, Exchange 2010 can conserve up to 20% on support costs, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk storage. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Releases Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help Your Business with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a wide selection of Exchange 2010 integration skills and can help you to evaluate the advantages and risks of implementing Exchange 2010, conduct realistic simulations to determine the functionality and throughput of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your environment, plan a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 solution that enhances the uptime, security, and capability of your messaging system, produce an efficient rollout plan that avoids operational disruption and optimizes the utilization of current hardware, provide affordable remote and on-premises help to execute your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, generate extensive documentation of your upgraded messaging environment, train your IT staff and users to get them ramped up quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing administrative and technical support.

Progent focuses in providing online consulting and network support, which can save your company significant time and expense in the course of your migration to Exchange Server 2010. By delivering rapid remote access to Microsoft-certified Exchange 2010 experts, Progent avoids the expense and delay attached to onsite support. For environments that call for on-premises assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting expert to any state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT consultants offer a range of additional low-cost support services to improve the productivity, fault tolerance, protection, speed, and manageability of messaging environments powered by Exchange 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent can provide the knowledge of Cisco CCIE network engineers to help you to enhance your connectivity architecture to exploit the fault-tolerance, security and compliance, and wireless access technologies included with Exchange 2010. Progent can show you cost-effective ways to set up Cisco switches and routers to achieve the top degree of network uptime, protection, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals are experts in providing online consulting so that your organization can benefit from world-class network expertise at a price that small companies can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified security consultants can provide a variety of affordable security inventory evaluation service packages that give companies of any size a chance to have an unbiased, expert opinion about the suitability of their security environment for integration with Exchange 2010. These fixed-price assessment packages vary from a low-cost external security scan and assessment offering for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who need to meet security criteria required by government regulations or by clients. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security certifications examine and document scanned data and make recommendations for sensible improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery experts can help your company to create a disaster recovery strategy so your business can resume critical business functions in case of an information network breakdown due to natural disaster, malicious assault, hardware failure, operator error, or other causes. Progent can help your organization to create a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also assist your business to establish an economical, high-uptime network infrastructure that addresses reliability issues covering a broad range of network technologies and procedures such as clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also provide Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration expertise to assist you configure DPM for continual remote data backup and rapid restoration.

Wireless Email Expertise for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email experts can minimize hassle and expenses by helping you to identify, set up, administer, and support mobile messaging solutions that make sense for your business. Progent's consultants can assist you with an Exchange 2010 migration that significantly enhances the productivity of on-the-go workers by offering tight integration with major mobile handsets including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can also help you to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's network management consultants have in-depth expertise in key virtual server platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual consulting, VMware virtual server help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's consultants can show your company ways to incorporate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtualized machine environment that maximizes speed, increases uptime, simplifies management, reduces data recovery time, and significantly lowers your investment in hardware and maintenance. For example, Progent can assist you to utilize Hyper-V's integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the administration of your virtual network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 consulting support to assist your company to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server product and make sure that Exchange 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art IT network powered by Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can help your company to set up and evaluate pilot simulations, develop and execute an upgrade strategy that minimizes business interruptions, strengthen your network infrastructure, bolster your protection, and implement server and storage clustering and virtualization options that improve the business value of your information environment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your business to configure, administer, and support Microsoft Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft's latest client platform functions productively with Exchange Server 2010. Progent's Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade services include cost/benefit assessment, project management, test installations under authentic workloads, minimally intrusive deployment of Windows 7 desktops, thorough documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and network administrators, plus continuing IT help from Progent's low-cost remote help desk services.

For additional information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.