COLLECTIVE TO HOST MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SEMINARS FOR TEXAS IT PROFESSIONALS

Austin, Texas, March 16, 2006 - Collective Technologies, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services and solutions, will host an educational seminar series for IT professionals on the Microsoft Exchange 2003 platform. The sessions, called "Experts on Exchange," will each be led by Microsoft and Collective Exchange specialists and take place in Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso over the next two months.

IT managers who are planning to migrate to Exchange Server 2003 or who are currently Exchange Server 2003 customers can take advantage of these free seminars to learn about the latest techniques, best practices and architectures to maximize the value of technology investments. Attendees will have the opportunity to network and interact with Microsoft and Collective experts as well as other professionals and peers over a complimentary lunch.

The Houston and Austin sessions, called "Server Down? Now What?," will help IT professionals prepare for disaster recovery, recover items and mailboxes from backup and rebuild a destroyed Exchange 2003 Server. The "Ready, Set Go" sessions in Dallas, San Antonio and El Paso will focus on how to use Exchange Server 2003 and SP2 to increase business productivity, dependability and operational efficiency.

WHAT: Microsoft Exchange lunch seminars: "Experts on Exchange"

HOST: Collective Technologies

LOCATIONS:

• Houston - Tuesday, March 28, 2006
• Austin - Thursday, April 6, 2006
• Dallas - Wednesday, April 12, 2006
• San Antonio - Thursday, April 20, 2006
• El Paso - Thursday, April 27, 2006

For more information or to register, visit www.collectivetech.com/texastour or call 1-800-994-1640.

About Collective Technologies

Collective is a leading provider of enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions. The company has tested and refined its methodologies through more than 5 million hours of professional, consultative service delivery to some of the largest, most complex and mission critical environments in the world. Brocade, Dell, EMC, HP, Legato, Microsoft, Symantec, and others rely on Collective to deliver complex services to their clients. Collective provides a broad range of Infrastructure Solutions in the areas of Mail and Messaging, Data Center LifeCycle Management, Backup and Recovery and Storage Services. To learn more about Collective, visit, www.collectivetech.com.

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