With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you achieve a new level of reliability and performance. Protect your communications with simplified administration and security management. Delight your users by giving them greater mobility–while still connected.

Microsoft Exchange Server is the cornerstone of Microsoft's Unified Communications solution. It's a flexible, reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs by 50-80%. Increase your productivity by granting Anywhere Access to traveling workers. Safeguard your business' communications with protections and compliance capabilities that cut your daily risks.

Every communication is now an interaction–more collaborative, more engaging, and accessible anywhere. The benefits for IT are equally powerful: a highly secure and reliable system that works with existing systems, lower cost of ownership, smoother deployment, and greater choice and flexibility.

Lync eclipses its predecessor OCS 2007 with full VoIP capacity. Businesses no longer need an expensive PBX to run their phones. Users can start a call, join a conference, share a desktop, initiate video chat, check a colleague’s presence on their mobile phone, or just IM a co-worker – all from the same Lync interface, with a few clicks. Lync 2010–fully integrated with Exchange and SharePoint, is the voice component of Microsoft's Unified Communications.

It delivers unified data protection for Windows servers such as SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, virtualization and file servers – as well as Windows desktops and laptops. DPM seamlessly uses disk, tape, and cloud-based repositories for a best-of-breed backup / recovery solution for Windows environments.

New in 2010 is the ability to centrally manage roaming laptops at desktop-level protection. Your laptop data will be protected whether you are connected to the corporate network or travelling on an airplane. DPM also provides native site-to-site replication for Disaster Recovery; use either another DPM server or an off-site cloud provider. Centrally-managed System State and Bare Metal Recovery are also new in DPM 2010. Windows customers of all sizes can rely on Microsoft to provide a scalable and manageable protection solution that is cost-effective, secure, and reliable.

Windows Server 2008 R2 uses integrated virtualization and simplified management tools to reduce IT infrastructure cost & maintenance. Paired with Windows 7, it enables fast remote connectivity so mobile workers can work anywhere, securely.

New in 2008 R2: A new version of Hyper-V that improves performance of virtual datacenters. An update to IIS 7.5, with easier tools for administering web applications. New scalability features, such as increased operating system componentization. Improved remote administration and management of file services. Even power consumption management is improved for Windows Server 2008 datacenters.

SharePoint 2010 is the industry's most adaptable solution for content management, team collaboration, managing communications, and business intelligence presentation. One of PlanetMagpie's most frequent IT Consulting service requests.

Choose from three versions, depending on your needs and budget. PlanetMagpie IT Consulting is Microsoft-certified for building custom SharePoint environments, and available for on-site help throughout the Bay Area. We can also customize Office 365 SharePoint environments.

A Juniper partner, PlanetMagpie's IT consultants help you develop a strategy for architecting your network. And a plan to implement it in your organization.

Juniper network hardware is cloud-ready and mobile-friendly, making it the better choice for high-performance infrastructures. PlanetMagpie has Juniper-certified network support engineers on staff, so we're the local choice for San Francisco Bay Area Juniper implementation and support issues.

partners, and vendors on both managed and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices. Employees, partners and vendors can use a combination of connectivity options (from SSL VPN to DirectAccess) to work from anywhere. Connections are secured by built-in configurations, policies, and an easy centralized management.

UAG 2010 enforces granular access controls and policies to protect both corporate resources and those accessing them remotely. The applications in use, health of the devices used for remote access, and the user's identity are all factors in UAG's security protections. These factors also reduce management costs, as they are easy to manage & monitor in UAG.

Both however are necessary to keep users safe and productive. Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 combines these disciplines in order to fully protect endpoints from a single administrator interface. With Endpoint Protection 2010 you can deploy patches, deliver necessary security updates, protect against threats and more.

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 enables businesses to align security and management, improving endpoint protection and greatly reducing operational costs. By using existing client management infrastructure, Forefront enforces proper system configuration and keeps antivirus protections up-to-date. This shared infrastructure helps reduce ownership costs, while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.

all require a full range of support options in order to safeguard your network's operations. PlanetMagpie delivers with troubleshooting, server and workstation support, email issues, spam/virus protection. Even network wiring for setting up new offices.

PlanetMagpie will customize a support solution for your company’s needs. Whether it’s support when you need it, a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with scheduled visits, or a combination of the two, we will find a cost effective solution to keep your users and IT environment humming. Outsourcing your network support is a cost-effective alternative to maintaining network support staff.

Use Managed IT Services for server maintenance and security, or application management & monitoring. Managed servers can be located in-house, hosted with a third-party, or hosted in PlanetMagpie’s Bay Area datacenter.

As a Managed Services Provider, PlanetMagpie hosts and maintains SharePoint, Exchange 2010, SQL Server, Lync 2010, Microsoft CRM 4.0 and other servers for its clients. The servers are backed up daily. Security patches are applied automatically. If an upgrade is warranted, we inform you of its benefits & concerns beforehand.

Built on the solid and secure ASP.NET/SQL 2008 platform, Sitefinity includes state-of-the-art content management tools, a user-friendly interface, and online marketing and social media integration tools that your marketing staff will love.

Sitefinity CMS helps you engage with your online community. Among other things, the platform includes news and events modules, localization, built-in blogs, easy to manage SEO, online forms, a membership framework, and website metrics. As a Sitefinity Featured Partner, PlanetMagpie can design and build a custom website that allows you to manage all of your online marketing through one easy interface.

Miva is an easy-to-run shopping cart you can customize for everything from mobile payments to international orders and automated order fulfillment. With a dedicated developer community and U.S.-based support, Miva Merchant is a great ecommerce choice.

Miva has focused on small business ecommerce needs since 1997. Their shopping cart allows for unlimited products and categories. Full design flexibility allows partners like PlanetMagpie to build in additional functions using Miva Script and third-party modules. We also provide secure ecommerce hosting.