Allen Remote Workers Solutions Support
Help Desk Solutions Consulting
Expanding your remote workforce can have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can help your Allen organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and returns top business value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed guidance for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.
Progent can help Allen, Texas companies to with any aspect of building a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud connectivity, Call Desk augmentation, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Help Desk Call Center Services for At-Home Workers
An emergency, enterprise-wide transition to a from-home business model, which could be motivated by an epidemic or as part of a disaster recovery preparedness plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed in-house Call Center. Progent's Call Center services make it possible for businesses of any size to outsource or augment their Help Desk Call Center by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center (TRC) team.
- Progent's Standard Support Desk services leverage Progent's extensive network of online IT support experts combined with world-class trouble ticketing and tracking software to offer an affordable, advanced Call Desk. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide an end-to-end solution that handles all facets of remote Level 1 desktop technical support from initial service requests through trouble ticket generation, desktop sharing, issue resolution, and incident reporting. A web-based User's Service Portal enables at-home employees to track or update the status of their current trouble tickets, enter information, and upload screenshots and relevant files. Support services are provided at a significant price reduction off Progent's ordinary Level 1 desktop service charges, and Progent makes available the option of fast escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 IT experts to resolve complex issues. To learn more, visit Progent's Standard Helpdesk Services outsourcing for small and mid-size companies.
- Progent's Help Desk Supplemental Service enables you to augment your existing Call Desk team by splitting delivery of Call Desk services transparently between your in-house IT support organization and Progent's extensive roster of desktop support technicians and subject matter specialists. Progent's shared Call Desk service uses a co-sourcing support model based on the number one professional services automation (PSA) platform for managing service requests and ticketing, assigning responsibility, monitoring progress, and producing management reports. For details about how Progent's Help Desk Call Center Augmentation Services can enable your company to provide world-class desktop support to your from-home workers, go to Progent's Support Desk augmentation Services.
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Remote wireless VoIP phone integration Integration
wireless VoIP phone integration IT Consultants
Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi IP phone configuration and troubleshooting consultants can provide remote and on-premises support to help your organization create and manage a Cisco wireless VoIP phone deployment by providing services that can range from debugging the set up of a wireless IP phone or access point to offering project management outsourcing or co-sourcing for modernizing the wireless architecture of a campus.
Support and Setup MSP360 B2 Backup Storage
MSP360 Exchange Mailbox Backup Support Outsourcing
Progent can assist you to create, implement and administer a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 Backup software to protect your resources hosted on any major public cloud. Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and remote management to prevent data loss resulting from human mistakes, system glitches, ill-intentioned insiders, and external attacks like ransomware.
Consultant NotPetya ransomware recovery
Specialists Spora ransomware recovery
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a seasoned ransomware recovery consultant who can help you to contain the progress of an active ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
VMM Database Troubleshooting
Computer Consultants SCVMM 2012 Backup and Recovery
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help organizations of all sizes to follow leading practices to set up SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, networking, storage, and libraries; plan, integrate, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, and services in SCVMM 2012; and integrate SCVMM with System Center 2012 Operations Manager for comprehensive monitoring and reporting. Progent can help your company to upgrade from an earlier edition of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from another virtualization management system, and Progent can show you how you to optimize and troubleshoot your current SCVMM environment to make sure you realize the highest possible return on investment.
ProSight Remote Managed IT Services Services
Urgent ProSight Remote Managed IT Services Engineers
Progent's ProSight family of managed IT services are designed to provide organizations who maintain minimal in-house IT administration and support teams with affordable help from world-class management platforms and technical experts. Benefits of the ProSight catalog of managed IT services include predictable network maintenance expenses, automation of common management tasks, ongoing absorption of the latest information technology, graceful transition from legacy systems to modern solutions, close alignment of information technology with strategic goals, guidance from veteran network consultants, and freeing up management to focus on business rather than fast-evolving network technology.
Professionals ProSight Virtual Hosting
ProSight Small Business Private Clouds Consulting Services
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting outsourcing provides comprehensive hosting of a small company's servers in an environment that delivers the maximum degree of availability and expandability and is in addition simple to move to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting services are based upon mature virtualization technologies that allow small and midsize businesses with mixed- platform environments to save significantly on the expense of capital equipment, system maintenance, and network management while achieving world-class reliability and an unmatched degree of vendor flexibility.
Photoshop Learning
24x7x365 Trainer Photoshop
Progent's Mac consultants can support the creative aspect of Mac environments by providing consulting services and training in graphics, sound, and motion video. Progent's consultants offer expertise in a variety of Mac applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Progent can also help you with specific jobs such as capturing or digitizing audio or video or configuring an audio/video post production studio.
Specialists Email Intent Analysis
ProSight Email Virus Filtering Engineers
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of ProSight Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
Technology Consulting Services ASA and PIX Firewalls
Cisco Firewall integration IT Consultants
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to manage your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist you to plan, configure, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services
Automated Server Management Professional
Automated Server Management Computer Consulting
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop remote monitoring service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your IT system running efficiently by checking the state of vital devices that power your network environment. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alarm is transmitted automatically to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so that all looming issues can be addressed before they can impact your business.
Ekahau Predictive Wi-Fi Site Modeling IT Consultant
Ekahau Pro Wi-Fi Network Design Consultant
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi network design consultants can assist your business to plan, deploy, optimize, manage and debug a Wi-Fi solution customized for your building. Progent can provide online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi planning, Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF analysis, Ekahau Analyzer for resolving RF issues, and Ekahau Insights for managing the performance of multiple Wi-Fi networks.
Technicians Iowa
Texas Information Technology Consulting Firms
Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC) provides national extended hours remote troubleshooting for IT networks based on Windows and Cisco technology. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service experts offer after-hours phone support and remote direct network access to isolate and repair network problems rapidly and economically. The scope of technical expertise available from Progent's team of country-wide support engineers makes it possible to escalate even the toughest network issues to competent experts as required. For urgent issues, the TRC endeavors to respond to your request for service in less than one hour.
MSCRM Consultant
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Support and Setup
Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management helps mid-market companies nurture profitable client interactions. Built-in Sales and Customer Service modules enable employees to share data to help improve sales success and offer steady, effective customer service. Progent can configure the optimal network infrastructure, including mobile wireless access, to back MS CRM, and Progent's Experts Team can provide your company with a certified MS CRM professional who can show you how to combine Microsoft Dynamics CRM with your marketing or customer service databases.
Trend Micro Scanmail Professionals
Maintenance SMTP
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have 20 years of experience providing e-mail and unified telecommunications/email solutions for companies. Progent provides economical Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server support services to strengthen email security and virus defense, provide fault tolerant email, and implement remote and mobile email access. Progent's Microsoft Exchange consulting and support services can aid you in planning and implementing a Microsoft Exchange update or a move from a legacy SMPT server or outdated Microsoft Email software such as Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2010.
Microsoft Teams Migration from Skype for Business Professionals
Microsoft Teams management Specialists
Progent can assist you to design a migration to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Online and configure, manage, and debug a cloud-based or hybrid implementation of Microsoft Teams. Progent can help you to integrate Teams with Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange, SharePoint, and your PSTN gateway.
Remote Workers Cybersecurity Consulting
At Home Employees Security Technology Consulting Services
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to configure security protection solutions and deliver mitigation services to support at-home workers.
Immediate Enterprise Consulting Firm
24/7 Setup and Support Colocation
For enterprises with branch offices in or any area served by Progent's engineers, Progent's Microsoft-Certified IT consulting professionals and authorized Cisco network consultants can provide a variety of network support services such as project planning, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, office relocations, enterprise security, system design, local or remote emergency support, and troubleshooting for co-location hosting facilities. A Progent network consultant can show you how to plan a multi-site network that makes efficient use of co-location services and Internet hosting sites. Progent's Microsoft Premier consultants can help large enterprises design, integrate and maintain major rollouts of the latest versions of Microsoft products including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Enterprise Windows. Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP experts can assist you to deploy Cisco technology for connectivity solutions that combine simple, high-performance, integrated, and remote networking.
Active Directory Evaluation Professional
Consultant Network Health Audit
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable alternative for small and mid-size businesses to obtain an unbiased assessment of the health of their information system. Powered by a selection of the top remote monitoring and management platforms in the industry, and overseen by Progent's certified group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your core infrastructure assets adhere to industry best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits such as a more manageable and safer Active Directory environment. Both options also provide the long-term advantages of advanced remote network monitoring and management technology. These benefits can include lower-cost network management, improved compliance with government and industry security requirements, higher utilization of network resources, quicker problem resolution, more dependable backup and restore, and increased uptime.
Remote Support Services Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP
Dynamics GP Online Support
Microsoft Dynamics GP can help you grow and manage your business more efficiently by offering deep access to strategic information and a rapid return on investment. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers important productivity benefits including its ability to extend the reach of your company, manage your accounting, computerize financial processes, unify procedures across your business, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow sales and shorten lead-time, and maximize free cash flow. Progent can show you how to set up and manage a reliable, secure server and network infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can offer expert Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants to make sure you derive all the advantages of your Dynamics GP/Great Plains software.
Specialists ransomware cleanup and recovery
Nephilim ransomware hot line Consultant
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery expert who can assist your business to contain the spread of an active ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Technology Consulting Catalyst 2960 Switch
Catalyst 6800 Switch Network Consultant
With the Catalyst line of switches for small and medium-sized businesses, Cisco allows companies to realize the full benefits of adding smart traffic control to their IT infrastructures. Cisco's Catalyst switch product line allows you to enable features to make your IT network sufficiently robust to handle time-critical requirements, expandable to support growth, secure enough to guard confidential data, and designed for prioritizing and managing traffic flows to streamline network performance. Progent's Cisco certified consultants can help you pick out and deploy Catalyst switches that make sense for your business. In addition, Progent's CISM and CISA certified security specialists can show you how to develop a comprehensive security policy and configure Cisco switches so they powerfully support your security strategy. Catalyst switching products that Progent supports include Cisco's Catalyst Express 500 switches, Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches, Cisco Catalyst 4900 switches, and Catalyst 6500 Series Switches.
MSP360 Server Backup Support and Integration
MSP360 Cloud Backup/Restore IT Consultants
Progent's data protection experts can help you to create, install and administer a backup solution built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your IT assets residing on any major public cloud. Progent offers monitoring and remote management to protect against data loss resulting from human mistakes, software errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and external assaults such as ransomware.
Biggest password management system Specialists
client credential management Engineer
ProSight IT Asset Management is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it.
Hornetsecurity Altaro M365 Teams Chat Backup Consulting
Hornetsecurity Altaro M365 SharePoint Backup Technology Consulting Services
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can plan, install, and manage an implementation of 365 Total Backup to protect your Microsoft 365 mailboxes, files residing within your company's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, Teams Chats, plus files on Windows endpoints.
Juniper Junos Network Consulting
Juniper Junos Management Security Contractor
Progent's Juniper Networks-authorized network engineer can assist your company to design and implement Juniper Firewall/VPN platforms, optimize and troubleshoot your infrastructure, and upgrade smoothly from discontinued equipment to current versions. Progent's Junos OS engineers can also provide support for Juniper's flagship network control software to enable you to streamline the management and strengthen the security of your Juniper VPN devices firewalls, and routers. Progent also has broad background supporting Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS operating system productss and can assist you manage networks that include a combination of Juniper's software platforms.
WatchGuard Firebox M4600 Firewall Auditor
WatchGuard Firebox M290 Firewall Computer Security Specialist
Progent offers consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security gateways such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM series of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you select, deploy, and manage a WatchGuard Firewall appliance that aligns with your network security needs and budget. Progent can help you to manage legacy WatchGuard firewalls or upgrade efficiently to modern WatchGuard firewall solutions.
Consulting for Service Providers Support Services
IT Services for Network Service Firms Troubleshooting
Progent's Support Program for IT Service Organizations lets you take advantage of Progent's information technology experts while retaining your own brand as a seamless arm of your network consulting team.
Altaro VM Backup Encryption Engineer
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and VMware Support Services
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity provides small organizations a dependable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports cost-effective backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware attacks by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by anyone including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide array of online or onsite consulting services to help you to plan, install, optimize and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup software.
Azure Active Directory with Intune Onsite Technical Support
Consultant Services Azure Active Directory with Intune
Progent can assist you to design and implement a smooth move from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid system that deploys Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to unify identity services for both on-premises and cloud assets.
IT Outsourcing Best Practices Whitepapers
Immediate Whitepaper IT Outsourcing
Progent's IT outsourcing packages offer affordable network consulting for medium-size organizations. Whether it involves planning system infrastructure, creating an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, deploying an updated e-mail platform, monitoring your network, or creating a web-based eCommerce solution, outsourcing your network engineering services can reduce costs and eliminate risks, allowing IT support budgets to grow in a more moderate and manageable fashion than is feasible by amassing a large, all-purpose in-house IT organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers tell you how Progent can enable you to create a protected and robust system architecture for your critical Windows-based applications such as Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server.
64-bit Computing Technology Professional
Consultant Services 64-bit Server
Progent's Microsoft-expert engineers can help you to update your workstations from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can assist your company to understand the risks and benefits of migrating to 64-bit desktop processing, plan an efficient migration process that minimizes operational interruptions, and deliver economical, expert online support to assist you to install 64-bit PC desktop operating systems and application software on your existing hardware.
Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Security Consulting
Security Firms Penetration Testing
Stealth penetration testing is an important part of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, missing patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware.
Company-wide Standards for Best Practices Network Documentation
Company-wide Standards for Best Practices Technology Consultancy Firm
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts average more than a decade of hands-on professional experience, at the forefront of IT support, executing a broad range of technical tasks for an extensive mix of customers. Each Progent support professional shares a proven collection of personal best practices that are incorporated into company-wide best practices standards that Progent instills in its support personnel. This ensures that you get not only world-class technical skills, but also a support engineer with proven methods for applying technical knowledge to repair real-world network problems rapidly.
Consultants ISA 2006
ISA 2006 Firewall Specialist
Secure Application Publishing with Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 provides more control over intranet applications while supporting enhanced efficiency by making these resources accessible to legitimate remote or mobile users. Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 helps guard business applications, services, and data across all network components with application-layer filtering and powerful publishing tools. Progent's Microsoft-premier Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can help you design, install, set up, and support Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 on your system so your business benefits from a smart and affordable combination of security, convenience, and performance.
Online Troubleshooting MSP360 Backup
MSP360 SQL Backup Remote Support Services
Progent's data protection experts can help you to create, implement and administer a backup solution built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your IT assets hosted on any major public cloud. Progent offers monitoring and management to protect against data loss caused by user mistakes, software errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and external attacks like ransomware.
Security Organizations Firewall Security
Firewall Security Network Consulting
Progent provides businesses of any size expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and choose appropriate products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.
Cisco switch patch management Specialist
Patch management Specialist
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Remote Service Reporting Remote Support Services
24-Hour Service Database Troubleshooting
Progent uses a sophisticated service reporting system that stores and formats complete documentation for all billed services. Unlike many freelance consultants or small service firms who offer minimal documentation or details of services performed, each service delivered by Progent is accompanied by comprehensive documentation. Each Progent staff member has use of the support documentation sent by each staff member to every customer. The discipline of documenting and archiving service records results in more efficient service and avoids a variety of typical problems such as when a service client is virtually held captive to a consultant who refuses to release the keys to the kingdom.
Cisco and Microsoft Certified Experts Horizon3.ai NodeZero Threat Assessment Security Consultant
Horizon3.ai NodeZero Penetration Testing Security Evaluation
Progent's certified cybersecurity experts can run NodeZero-powered threat assessments to make sure your security defense tools and policies are properly set up and effective.
VMware Site Recovery Manager and NSX Integration Professionals
VMware Site Recovery Manager Failback Engineers
VMware's popular Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and test a repeatable process for recovering services quickly after a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate audit reports to verify complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help your organization to design, deploy, test and maintain a disaster recovery solution powered by VMware SRM.
Computer Consultants Forefront TMG 2010
Microsoft Certified Forefront TMG 2010 Online Support
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 builds on the proven security capabilities of Microsoft ISA Server 2006 and offers a easily administered web gateway that acts as a single-server platform for an array of security functions including an application and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, antimalware, intrusion protection, reputation services, VPN management, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Forefront Threat Management Gateway includes advanced web security logging and reporting features, permits custom reporting generated by SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to simplify policy enforcement, and can be installed as a virtual machine to cut costs and improve availability. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your company to design and execute test and production deployments; integrate Forefront Threat Management Gateway with Windows 2008 R2, AD, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server 2010, and SharePoint; install Forefront TMG 2010 to operate on a virtual machine with Windows Hyper-V; and deliver continuing support and troubleshooting. Progent can also help you to migrate smoothly to Forefront Threat Management Gateway from any version of ISA Server.
Security Consultancy Juniper J2350 Router
Juniper J Series Firewall Network Consulting
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can assist your organization to design and carry out the installation of Juniper J Series firewall/VPN routers, configure security policies and fault-tolerant redundancy, and provide ongoing technical consulting and troubleshooting services.
At Home Workers Professionals
Teleworker Solutions Remote Technical Support
Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and medium-size companies to plan, deploy, tune, administer, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce.
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