Microsoft made available the newest release of Windows Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These solutions deliver the power of Windows advanced server technologies to small and midsize businesses in a cost-effective package. Intended for companies with up to 75 desktops, Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server solution created to help businesses keep their information safer and their organization more efficient.
MS Small Business Server 2008 is available in basic and premiere editions. The basic edition includes Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premium edition also includes MS SQL Server 2008.
Microsoft EBS 2008 is meant for companies with as many as 75 PC users and gives network administrators more control over their information system by eliminating complications and streamlining many processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by providing connectivity to corporate e-mail, scheduling, addresses and files to workers who are not at their desks. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Ships Windows Small Business Server 2008 and EBS 2008.
How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help Your Company to Take Advantage of MS Windows SBS
The most productive installation of MS Windows SBS calls for an IT consulting company with real-world expertise and an extensive background in planning and building data-driven end-to-end business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with more than 10 years of consulting in Microsoft products, assures you results in planning, deploying and managing Small Business Server applications that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's line of system and application servers.
Progent's consulting experts can help your company to deploy the main pieces of the Microsoft Small Business Server and Microsoft EBS 2008 bundles and can also provide a range of other affordable support options to improve the efficiency, dependability, protection, performance, and manageability of IT networks built around Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Windows Essential Business Server 2008:
Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent provides a range of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance support that can help small organizations to benefit from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified engineers can help your company to understand the areas where Windows Server 2008 could enhance the business value of your IT system in order to cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Windows Server 2008 in order to determine its stability, performance, and compatibility running your applications. Progent can provide consulting for developing a deployment strategy, evaluate and improve your current network environment, develop archiving and restoration processes, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, help in integrating physical and virtual machines, develop high-availability strategies such as server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house IT management team, and deploy proactive round-the-clock monitoring operations to track system protection and performance.
Exchange Server 2007 Design, Configuration, Maintenance, and Hosting Support
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you define and implement an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade strategy that avoids network disruption, reduces long-term service requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include expertise with the integration of third-party add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging solutions based on Exchange Server 2007. Progent's Exchange Hosting Support Services offer an enterprise-class data center with redundant electrical and environmental control systems, round-the-clock site security and IT support center, plus failover connections to Internet backbone service companies. Hosted Microsoft Exchange servers are set up as virtual servers for high availability, easy scalability, and fast recovery. Services include complete incorporation with your network, access to mobile communication products, continual monitoring of efficiency and network security, spam filtering, security update and service pack management, Help Desk Call Center support, per-day backup, and full messaging administration services.
SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can offer help for designing, configuring, and managing successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically improve key areas of your company's information environment including teamwork, web portal, enterprise search, forms-based business processes, access to business intelligence, and document control. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can assist you to assess the business benefit for implementing Office SharePoint, deliver setup and integration support, help you to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a back-office database engine, enhance your network infrastructure, integrate your off-the-shelf and custom application software to work with Office SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security strategy that includes web portal solutions, and deliver online and on-site troubleshooting and Call Center services.
SQL Server 2008 Design and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your company configures SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-powered database system is incorporated seamlessly with your business applications. Progent can provide continuous network monitoring to make sure your business network is healthy, and Progent's remote Help Desk is available to offer rapid remediation for SQL database problems. Progent's certified data protection experts can assess your company-wide security policies and mechanisms and recommend improvements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can help you to develop or customize line-of-business programs or eCommerce sites utilize information managed by SQL Server.
Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts offer a broad array of cost-effective services to assist you company to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and administer workstations and laptops based on Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online technical support for individual machines or laptops or help you to design and implement a company-wide rollout of the latest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from popular publishers, database servers, and line-of-business solutions network-wide. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to help your company to plan for and complete a company move or merger organized to produce the least possible disruption of your productivity.
Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages intended to enable small companies to receive a professional security evaluation from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-qualified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert administers a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert executes a system scan from a secure machine within your firewall to evaluate your exposure to internal threats. The two security inventory packages are set up and executed from a protected external location. The process is implemented by an engineer who has earned high-level security accreditations who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if appropriate.
Live Virtual Education for Desktop Applications
Progent offers live virtual education for an array of client programs and operating systems such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Acrobat, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Virtual learning provides the benefits of traditional in-person seminars, including immediate communication between clients and trainers, but eliminates the expenses of transportation and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of multiple students. Available to single students or groups of any size, live online education allows the teacher to conduct the seminar from an online office while the clients can be spread throughout an office or all over the the U.S. Live online instruction deploys proven learning aids like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Classes can be short and targeted for specialized subjects or longer in time and broader in scope. Instructors and clients can work through examples individually or as a group.
Urgent Online Troubleshooting
Progent’s National Support Center offers nationwide remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small business IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified service engineers provide phone support and online secure network access to isolate and repair technical problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of technical experience represented by Progent's team of country-wide support engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to qualified specialists as needed.
For more details about Progent's consulting expertise for MS Windows Small Business Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or send email to windows-server-help@progent.com.
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