Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Anaheim company to select the right technologies and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers top value. Progent can provide services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you past challenging technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Anaheim, California businesses to succeed with any aspect of building a high-functioning remote work ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Network Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed to support an at-home work environment can be especially complicated if you must accommodate a mix of worker-owned hardware like PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from various vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering online help for both legacy and current IT products in virtual office solutions enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing infrastructure and provides you with ready access to top-tire consultants for implement necessary updates. Services available from Progent to help your company to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:

  • VPN technology makes it possible to create a secure tunnel for authorized remote workers to use IT assets situated at your corporate data center or in the cloud. Progent can help you to deploy and manage VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key network resources by providing remote VPN integration support. For businesses with Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall experts can assist your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software for safe VPN tunneling for a wide selection of endpoint devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products enable a telecommuter to see and use a remote PC's desktop. This gives network managers substantial control over the digital environment of at-home employees and offers them a familiar work experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
  • Routers connect at-home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN tunnels, home wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent offers expert remote consulting for deploying home routers from a variety of manufacturers. See router configuration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, typically shared by an entire household and guests, are commonly utilized by telecommuters to access their router for work. This can cause performance as well as cybersecurity issues. Progent can help you to resolve these problems by delivering expertise that include Cisco Aironet integration expertise, Cisco Meraki wireless deployment expertise, and Ubiquiti WiFi access point integration assistance.
  • Internet connectivity methods affect the speed and availability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate network. Mission-critical processes might require backup Internet access in case the normal connection breaks. Progent offers guidance for selecting ISPs, choosing appropriate service packages, and integrating fault-tolerant Internet access. See Internet connectivity integration services.

IP Voice Integration for At-Home Workers
Extending the company PBX environment to accommodate teleworkers is vital to maintaining a productive at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-centric VoIP products are popular with small and mid-size businesses to server teleworkers. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's current or older products for IP voice solutions. Progent can assist organizations of all sizes to design or maintain a remote VoIP service that delivers the versatility, convenience and protection required for teleworkers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants offer advanced support to assist businesses optimize their existing Cisco IP voice systems to support a growing remote workforce.

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) delivers high-end telephony capabilities to devices such as IP phones, media processing products, Voice over IP gateways, and mixed media software deployed across the network. CUCM supports additional combined media services such as messaging, voice/video conferencing, and customer collaboration networks. For more information about Progent's Unified Communications Manager expertise, see CUCM consulting services.
  • CallManager is Cisco's legacy call-processing software and has been superseded by Cisco Unified CM or CUCM. Progent can help you to maintain your current CallManager deployment or migrate smoothly to Cisco's current IP telephony solutions. To learn about Progent's support services for CallManager and Cisco's other legacy VoIP platforms, refer to Cisco CallManager consulting.
  • Cisco IP Gateways provide connectivity with PSTN networks and with clients operating beyond the corporate firewall like at-home workers. Progent offers expert support for Cisco's legacy IP gateways such as the UC520, UC540 and UC560 product lines as well as for modern Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateways. See Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway integration consulting.
  • Additional VoIP Platforms supported by Progent's consultants include Vonage, RingCentral and 8x8. Progent can assist you to enhance your wide area network infrastructure to support these VoIP solutions and provide on-demand integration and troubleshooting services.

Voice/Video Conferencing for Remote Workers
A wide selection of video conferencing platforms from major vendors enable virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat, and content sharing for both onsite users and telecommuters. Many organizations use a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their different partners and customers. Progent's communications experts can help you to maintain your current conferencing environment and optimize the engagement of your remote employees.

  • Skype for Business is Microsoft's leading communications platform that supports real-time presence, IM, audio and video calling and conferencing plus the seamless integration of these capabilities within Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook. Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants who can assist your company to deploy and maintain Skype for Business client software to accommodate your remote employees. For details about Progent's consulting services for Skype for Business, refer to Skype for Business integration services.
  • FaceTime is Apple's group video calling platform for compatible iOS, iPadOS, iPod and macOS devices. FaceTime runs on Wi-Fi or cellular Internet connections. Later editions of FaceTime support as many as 32 simultaneous users for video sessions. For details about Progent's consulting services for FaceTime, see Progent's FaceTime configuration expertise.
  • Webex Meeting Center supports online conferencing for virtually all desktop or mobile devices. Offered via Cisco's Webex Cloud platform, Webex services include sharing discrete content or computer screens, presentations that incorporate rich media including Microsoft PowerPoint and Flash videos, network-based capture, plus editing and playback for training. To learn more about Progent's consulting services for Webex as well as for other IP video solutions from Cisco, see Progent's Webex Meeting Center support services.
  • Teams is Microsoft's next-generation replacement for Skype for Business. Teams provides a portal for conferencing, contacts, and information with capabilities that include voice/video conferencing, persistent chat, plus file sharing. For details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams and for other Microsoft 365 products, visit Progent's Microsoft Teams consulting services.
  • Additional Voice/Video Conferencing Platforms supported by Progent's conferencing experts include Google Meet, Amazon Chime, Zoom, and Slack. Progent can provide integration and debugging services for these products and help you to tune your network architecture to host them.

Microsoft Collaboration Software for At-Home Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful ecosystem of applications that create a cohesive user experience for sharing data and ideas across multiple sites and on a broad selection of endpoint computers. Progent has delivered remote consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their original publication and can help businesses to configure these flagship collaboration products to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.

Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.

Microsoft Teams Integration Experts for TelecommutersMicrosoft Teams works on top of Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration. Designed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, audio/video meetings with screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (formerly called Azure Active Directory) for supporting its complete range of features. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium, visit solution design and deployment consulting for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.

SharePoint Configuration Consultants for Remote WorkersSharePoint utilizes web entities to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-driven access to content, business processes, and tools for looking through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint enables you to build protected web portals that allows remote workers to see and edit consolidated business intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts. For details about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, refer to SharePoint integration and application development expertise.

Exchange Deployment Consultants for Remote WorkersExchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To find out about Progent's Exchange support services, go to deployment consulting for Exchange.

Microsoft Onedrive Integration Consultants for Remote WorkersOneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud storage service, comparable to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues can retrieve them securely via a browser. Provided with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows remote employees to co-author files. Edits made offline are synced when you go back online. To find out about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, refer to Onedrive integration consulting.

Public Cloud Integration for Teleworkers
Progent offers advanced online assistance for helping organizations to build, manage and repair integrated network architectures that include internal data centers, teleworkers, branch offices, and cloud resources. Progent can provide expertise for all modes of cloud service including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help remote workers fix problems with public cloud connectivity, identity, and security.

Azure Integration for At-Home WorkersAzure is a popular family of public cloud software and services that enables you to use infrastructure, virtual servers, and key apps hosted on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Microsoft Azure includes over one hundred services services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, on-demand cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can assist you to set up virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure AD, and design backup and recovery systems with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create protected access to Azure for at-home workers by configuring and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft Azure, see Microsoft Azure expertise.

Microsoft 365 Integration for Remote WorkersMicrosoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of client productivity applications and cloud services offered on a subscription basis. Office applications and cloud services are provided in a selection of bundles designed for customers ranging from individuals and small offices to large enterprises. Progent can provide fast and affordable online contact with experts familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can assist you to evaluate the various subscription bundles available for Microsoft 365 and deploy 365 apps for your at-home workers to achieve maximum business value. To learn about Progent's expertise for Microsoft 365, go to Microsoft 365 integration expertise.

Exchange Online Integration for At-Home WorkersExchange Online is one of the most widely used cloud-based applications in the Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online offers the benefits of reduced costs for physical infrastructure, easier management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and other benefits inherent with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to operate seamlessly with on-premises Exchange environments, enabling customers to create hybrid networks. Progent's certified Exchange experts are available for occasional assistance to guide you through challenging IT roadblocks and can also provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to ensure your at-home workers have easy and secure access to your Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, visit Exchange Online integration and support expertise.

Amazon AWS Integration for At-Home WorkersAmazon AWS is a trailblazer in the public cloud arena and is the industry's biggest provider of cloud-based services. Progent offers rapid and economical online contact with cloud connectivity consultants who can help your business to plan, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services with local resources and with other popular cloud platforms like Azure. Progent also can provide the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist your company to build a high-availability network architecture to make sure your users have a productive computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a branch office, from home, or on the road. For information about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, refer to Amazon AWS integration expertise.

Google Cloud Platform Integration for Remote WorkersGoogle Cloud Platform is a leading collection of cloud computing services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can assist you to extend your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's DBA consultants can show you how to make your mission-critical applications cloud friendly so your teleworkers can take full advantage of Google Cloud Platform services. Progent can help your business to set up virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage solution with Google Cloud Storage services, and streamline identity management for at-home workers with GCP Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also assist you to utilize GCP's unified management technology to control and monitor your GCP ecosystem. For information, visit Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration support.

Help Desk Services for Teleworkers
An emergency, enterprise-wide changeover to a telecommuter workforce, which might be motivated by a pandemic or as part of a disaster recovery/business continuity plan, can overwhelm even a well-staffed in-house Help Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services make it possible for businesses to outsource or supplement their Call Center with Progent's remote Technical Response Center (TRC) team.

  • Progent's Standard Help Desk Call Center support services utilize Progent's nationwide network of online IT support experts combined with world-class ticketing and tracking software to provide an affordable, state-of-the-art Help Desk Call Center. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide a comprehensive solution that addresses all aspects of remote Level 1 desktop support from help requests through trouble ticket generation, screen sharing, issue resolution, and incident reporting. A web-based User's Service Portal allows teleworkers to monitor or update their current trouble tickets, enter information, and append screenshots or relevant files. Technical support services are delivered at a substantial price reduction off Progent's ordinary Level 1 desktop service charges, and Progent makes available optional rapid escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 IT specialists to resolve advanced problems. For more information, go to Progent's Standard Helpdesk Services outsourcing for small and mid-size businesses.
  • Progent's Support Desk Augmentation Service allows your business to augment your existing Help Desk organization by splitting delivery of Call Center support transparently between your regular support staff and Progent's nationwide roster of desktop support engineers and subject matter specialists. Progent's shared Support Desk service uses a collaborative support solution utilizing the number one professional services automation (PSA) tool for handling service requests and trouble tickets, establishing ownership, tracking progress, and producing reports. To learn how Progent's Call Desk Supplementation Services can enable your business to deliver world-class desktop support to your at-home workforce, refer to Progent's Help Desk Call Center supplementation Services.

Security for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home employees typically utilize their personal computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of data security support experts can help your business to design, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards vital information resources in environments that include at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow companies to create a network that can be securely accessed by local users as well as by telecommuters, mobile employees, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to configure and manage appropriate access rights to different groups of users and to scale your network and modify your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent supports both new and legacy security devices from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration expertise, refer to firewall support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management Services for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various devices utilized by telecommuters and either block or identify and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight software agent is installed on every protected endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoints stay secure even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of outside and internal security attacks for a network that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can run online, automated cybersecurity analysis scanning for quickly and affordably detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be found over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be managed by network security experts with advanced certifications including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your company to audit your workflows and policies and review your network architecture to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your work-from-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment
To view or download a white paper about critical things to concentrate on for protecting an IT environment that includes work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Data Protection for Teleworkers
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and recovering vital information in order to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time in the event of storage failures due to hardware issues, software glitches, user error, cyber attack, or other causes. Dependable data protection strategies can be particularly difficult to design and manage in hybrid networks that combine private data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.

  • Backup/Recovery strategies for telecommuters must address diverse kinds of user-owned endpoints. Progent offers fast remote help from consultants familiar with a broad array of products for protection Microsoft Windows, Apple and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops as well as laptops, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Leading backup/recovery solutions supported by Progent's backup/recovery experts include Barracuda Backup, Microsoft Azure Backup, DoubleTake Software, Acronis Backup and Recovery, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To back up data spread throughout a hybrid network, Progent can provide ProSight Data Protection Services, a managed backup/recovery subscription service that utilizes cloud-based storage and features granular recovery and centralized management.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) plans typically anticipate circumstances that require a quick changeover to an at-home workforce. Progent's senior disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity consultants can help your company to create, document and validate a DR/BC strategy that addresses the logistics of moving to an at-home workforce.

Unified Management for Telecommuters
Microsoft has renamed and reshuffled its endpoint management products under the title Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Endpoint Manager provides a centralized environment for safeguarding critical information by controlling on-premises, mobile, and at-home endpoints.

Microsoft Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and securing remote devices and software. Managed endpoint devices can be user owned or company owned. Network administrators managing the endpoint computers of teleworkers can utilize Intune to provision and validate applications on managed devices, push updates and certificates, set up rules for permission to access data and networks, manage passwords, create VPN connections, control how teleworkers share information, set up threat protection, ensure compliance, and delete corporate information from lost, stolen or deactivated endpoint devices. Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. To learn about Microsoft Intune and to find out how Progent can help you to use this platform to administer the devices of your at-home workers, visit Intune telecommuter endpoint management consultants.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified MDM product that allows network administrators to keep off-premises endpoint devices up to date and secure. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch technology for unified endpoint management plus VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for authorization control, app management, and setup management of endpoints. Workspace ONE operates with devices powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or leading distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-site product through a perpetual license. Top capabilities of VMware Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air deployment of out-of-the-box laptops, immediate onboarding of new users, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of endpoints, unifies management reporting and analytics, an email encryption gateway, and seamless integration with Microsoft applications and cloud products. For details about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management expertise.

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter environment for your Anaheim, California organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.