Exchange Server 2013 includes major enhancements to the functionality of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and introduces important innovations plus a revamped architecture. These enhancements affect key facets of IT such as manageability, availability, security, cost of ownership, teamwork, scalability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and productivity. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting experts can help you understand the possible business benefits of upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2013, design a cost-effective test and rollout plan, and educate your IT team to maintain your Microsoft Exchange 2013 solution. Progent can also provide affordable remote support and management for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
Microsoft Virtual Server, hosted on the Windows Server operating system and based on technology originally produced by Connectix, delivers the performance needed to carry out hardware reduction, application migration, and server quarantine projects via virtualization technology in an enterprise-class computing network with advanced expandability, manageability, and fault tolerance. Microsoft has aimed Virtual Server at businesses wishing to improve ROI in software development and testing, migration from legacy line-of-business applications, and server consolidation. Progent's skilled Virtual Server consultants can help your business to evaluate and integrate MS Virtual Server.
Progent's IT outsourcing services offer affordable computer consulting for mid-size companies. Whether it involves planning network infrastructure, setting up an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out a new e-mail system, monitoring your network, or developing a web-based business solution, outsourcing your network technical services can reduce expenses and minimize uncertainties, allowing IT service expenses to grow in a more moderate and manageable manner than is possible by amassing a large, knowledgeable internal network support organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers show how Progent can help you build a secure and highly available network architecture for your critical Windows-powered business software including Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server, and SQL Server.
Progent can deliver a wide array of affordable online and onsite consulting services to help you to deploy, manage, and debug desktops and mobile devices based on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS/OS X, Apple iOS, Google Android, or Linux.
Progent's certified cybersecurity consultants can perform NodeZero-powered penetration tests to make sure your security defense tools and policies are correctly configured and effective.
Windows Server 2008 represents an important advance in making information networks more protected and available, easier to virtualize and manage, higher performing, and able to provide a better environment for web hosting and development. Progent can assist your company benefit fully from the enhancements built into Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by providing Microsoft-certified consulting, support, education, staffing, network monitoring, and security engineering expertise.
Progent's remote access and smartphone synchronization specialists can help your business to design and configure secure access solutions for remote desktops, laptops, and smartphones so they integrate seamlessly with your IT network, allowing your business to optimize the productivity of your off-site workforce.
Progent's Duo service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices.
Progent's background delivering Microsoft .NET support and SQL Server help, and Progent's application development experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and additional developer platforms make it possible to create custom mission-critical applications and eCommerce solutions that operate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting services can show you how to design reports that let you analyze your business more effectively, turning uncooked data into valuable understanding of your business.
The cluster feature set built into the high-end editions of MS Windows Server 2008 is radically re-engineered to simplify the installation, setup, and administration of server clusters that provide greater levels of network availability, protection, performance, and flexibility. New or enhanced features include automated cluster Validation, easier setup and deployment, improved cluster administration, new cluster infrastructure for increased availability, better security and quorum models, fewer failure points, greater disk and memory capacity, and enhancements for multi-site clusters. Progent's consultants can assist your company assess the advantages of Windows clustering, plan and execute an installation, train your network support staff to administer your cluster environment, deliver ongoing consulting and support services, and create and validate a business continuity plan.
Progent's Cisco CCIE network experts can assist you to set up, manage, upgrade and troubleshoot Cisco network products. Progent offers Cisco, Meraki and Nexus switch expertise, ASA firewall consulting, Meraki and Aironet Wi-Fi access point support, Cisco IP phone expertise, and CUCM/CallManager software support.
Progent is a reseller and integrator for SentinelOne's Singularity product line, a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat management solution that incorporates machine learning technology and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response.
Progent's Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) specialists offer extensive experience assisting small organizations to minimize network downtime by providing affordable online consulting support for disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, fault-tolerant IT architecture, data backup and restore solutions, and non-disruptive system maintenance. Progent's business continuity experts can help your company to develop and validate a sensible business continuity strategy that matches your business goals and budget. Progent's disaster recovery engineers can help you to design, implement, and support resilient technologies such as redundant Internet connectivity, virtualization, clustering, load balancing, transparent online backup, and geographically dispersed data centers.
Citrix has developed a powerful family of products that deliver enterprise-level manageability, scalability, and responsiveness for server virtualization and for server-based delivery of virtual Windows desktops and applications. For delivering virtualized desktops and applications, Citrix has developed Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. For creating and administering virtual servers, Citrix offers XenServer and Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V. Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can assist you to assess the business benefits of Citrix technology and help you plan, test, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain Citrix solutions.
Small to middle size companies can now get all the advantages of System Center Operations Manager and in addition have fast access to Progent's Microsoft and Cisco Premier IT support experts. With Progent's affordably priced IT service programs, small businesses can choose a simple Microsoft System Center Operations Manager-based co-sourcing service program with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online service or a complete round-the-clock outsourcing package. Progent offers expertise in Operations Manager 2007 to provide small company networks world-class availability, protection, and productivity.
Progent uses an enterprise-class support reporting system that stores and formats detailed documentation for all billed support activities. Unlike many independent consultants or local support organizations who provide minimal documentation or specifics of services performed, every service provided by Progent is tracked by full documentation. Every Progent staff member has use of the service documentation transmitted by every consultant to each client. The practice of detailing and archiving service activity results in more efficient support and eliminates a variety of common problems such as when a service client is effectively held hostage to a consultant who won't release vital service information.
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can offer small and mid-sized businesses expert Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive, web-ready database and data analysis platform that enables the speedy creation of advanced business programs that can give your company a competitive edge. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and can query over the Internet and outside the corporate firewall. In addition to providing expertise, support and troubleshooting services, Progent's SQL experts can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the productivity of your IT system. Progent can also help you migrate from earlier versions of SQL Server to Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 offers major improvements in performance, scale, security, high-availability, BOYD integration, plus integrated BI. New features include PolyBase for processing SQL and NoSQ files simultaneously for data warehousing, Jason support, Always Encrypted mode, Mobile Reports, and centralized management of on-premises and cloud resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can provide online and onsite expertise to help businesses of any size to configure, administer or troubleshoot any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to interface SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft products such as Windows Server, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Lync or Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager.
Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010 accounting is a full-featured business management solution that unifies information and processes across your business, interfaces easily with other applications, and connects employees, customers and vendors regardless of time or place. Created for small to mid-size companies, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 and MS Dynamics GP Release 10.0 provide capability for accounting, analytics and reporting, project management, inventory and order control, eCommerce, human resource management, customer relationship management, field force automation, manufacturing, retail management, and web-based business services. Progent can show you how to install and maintain a reliable, secure server and communications infrastructure to support Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, and can provide experienced Great Plains consultants to help your company exploit the full power of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010.
Progent's Support for IT Service Organizations lets you take advantage of Progent's consulting experts while retaining your own brand as a transparent arm of your network services team.
Cisco's PIX firewalls have reached end of life and Cisco may no longer offer support these legacy devices. Progent still offers consulting support for Cisco's PIX 500 Series firewalls to help you with management and troubleshooting and Progent can also help you determine if you should move up to the latest firewall products from Cisco. Progent's Cisco-certified specialists can help you design and carry out a smooth upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X Series firewalls based on industry best practices.
Progent's certified IT consultants offer Windows Server 2016 integration consulting services to assist businesses of any size to design and implement a smooth upgrade to Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 based on an on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment model. Progent can help you to evaluate the business benefits of Windows Server 2016 for your enterprise and can help you with any aspect of designing, configuring, managing or debugging your Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 ecosystem. Progent can help your organization to take advantage of the many new high-availability and information assurance features of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 such as Windows Containers for isolating applications, Shielded Virtual Machines, Credential Guard, JIT Privileged Access Management, VM software load, Storage Replica, plus workgroup and multi-domain failover clusters.
Progent's Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax Wireless Access Point consultants offer affordable remote and on-premises support for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless APs.
Progent's Reseller Program for IT Service Firms lets you take advantage of Progent's consulting engineers under your own service brand as a transparent extension of your network services team.
When conducting IT tasks for corporate clients, Progent uses a phased methodology based on defined milestones in order to achieve financial, timing and engineering goals while minimizing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology utilizes industry project management procedures based on the best practices defined by the Microsoft Solutions Framework Project methodology which specifies requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design adjustments, and expert implementation. All facets are recorded to make available a comprehensive summary of technical services delivered and to help in ongoing system maintenance.
Progent's CISSP-premier cybersecurity experts can help organizations of all sizes with any facet of IT security. Progent can implement efficient security systems that protect a small business from advanced threats or Progent can design, deploy, and monitor an end-to-end security strategy for hybrid networks that accommodate local, remote, and mobile users accessing IT resources distributed across multiple physical sites and various clouds.
Progent offers national urgent phone support and consulting services for businesses who operate environments powered by variants of Linux or whose IT systems feature a combination of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft Windows products. Online IT help offers maximum leverage for your information technology budget by extending user productivity and limiting the time charged for computer repair services. Advanced online access technology and skilled technicians and consultants combine to enable Progent to solve most network issues without squandering time and money by traveling to your site. In the vast majority of situations your IT problems can be dealt with over the phone or via a mix of telephone help and remote network analysis. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco CCIE network experts and CISSP and ISSAP premier security specialists to help with the toughest system issues.
Progent can provide advanced online consulting services to help businesses integrate their IT infrastructure with leading public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Progent can assist your IT team to design and administer cost-effective environments that support Windows and Linux systems and applications in both cloud-based systems or in hybrid topologies that combine local resources as well as cloud services. To help you to integrate cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of public cloud integration services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and integration services, Amazon Web Services cloud integration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) programming and troubleshooting. Progent has more than two decades of background delivering high-level consulting services remotely, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud migration projects quickly and affordably.
System Center Configuration Manager automates software deployment and updating, centralizes compliance settings management, inventories network resources, protects against corporate data leakage, provides network health reporting, enables safe end-user self service, and delivers a single control mechanism for administering mixed-OS ecosystems based on on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment topologies. Progent's Microsoft-certified Configuration Manager consultants and Microsoft Azure cloud integration experts can help you with any aspect of planning, installing, using and repairing a SCCM solution for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid networks.
For corporations with branch offices in California or any area served by Progent's consultants, Progent's Microsoft-Certified network support experts and certified Cisco network specialists offer a variety of network support services including project management, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, office moves, enterprise security, network architecture, local or remote emergency support, and technical support for co-location hosting facilities. A Progent network consultant can show you how to plan a multi-site information system that makes efficient use of co-location services and Internet data centers. Progent's Microsoft Certified engineers can help large enterprises design, deploy and maintain massive rollouts of the latest versions of Microsoft technology such as Active Directory, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Enterprise Windows. Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional experts can assist you to deploy Cisco technology for connectivity solutions that combine simple, high-performance, integrated, and remote networking.
Progent's experienced ransomware recovery experts can help your business to rebuild a network victimized by a ransomware attack like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Snatch or Nephilim.
Progent is among the most qualified information technology consulting companies for creating e-mail systems based on Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small businesses get all the benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 under common situations such as updating from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, moving from an ISP-based or POP3 e-mail system, and using managed services for your Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server administration.
Progent's managed services for software/firmware update management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your virtual and physical; servers, such as printers, network appliances such as switches and Wi-Fi APs, and Internet-of-Things devices like alarms and robotics.
Progent's CISSP-certified network security consultants can help organizations of all sizes with any aspect of information system security. Progent can create cost-effective security solutions that guard a small office from modern malware attacks or Progent can plan, deploy, and manage a comprehensive security environment for hybrid enterprise networks that accommodate local, remote, and mobile users sharing network resources distributed over multiple physical datacenters and various clouds.
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to configure cybersecurity defense solutions and deliver response services required for teleworkers.
For advanced project management support, Progent can provide the services of senior IT professionals with decades of background in IT management, application development, and business process engineering for organizations from Big 4 companies to dot-com startups to state government agencies. These proven IT managers can provide project management expertise to assist enterprise customers follow best practices to ensure that major projects are successfully completed on time and within budget.
Progent is a dealer and consulting firm for SentinelOne's Singularity product line, a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat management solution that includes AI software and expert services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (EDR).
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a seasoned ransomware recovery consultant who can assist your business to halt the spread of an ongoing ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can assist you to evaluate the benefits of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your company, develop test environments and migration plans, tune your network for on-premises, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and partial-cloud environments, educate your IT support team, create a corporate-wide security plan, streamline network management, help with creating applications, and generate and test a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's Mac networking consultants can help you with a broad array of network foundation issues including network architecture, off-site and mobile access, internetwork communication, security, and new technologies such as Voice over IP and high-speed wireless connectivity. For company networks built solely on Mac OS X or for environments that use a mix of Mac, Linux/UNIX and Windows powered servers and desktops, Progent has the experience and size to deal with the challenge of designing, configuring, and maintaining a system infrastructure that is robust, secure, productive and supportive of your corporate goals. Progent can show you how to deploy Apple's Xserve enterprise servers, Apple's Xserve RAID zero-downtime storage products, and Xsan storage area network systems. Progent can also provide skilled experts to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can help you to evaluate the benefits of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop test systems and rollout plans, optimize your infrastructure for local, multi-site, cloud-based, and partial-cloud datacenters, educate your IT support staff, develop an enterprise-wide security strategy, streamline IT administration, help with creating applications, and generate and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
DoubleTake/Carbonite Software offers a selection of tools intended to provide small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering vital applications including Exchange, SQL, RIM Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants have extensive backgrounds integrating DoubleTake/Carbonite products into small business IT systems to achieve an advanced level of fault tolerance and business continuity capability at an affordable cost.
Configuration Manager automates application and device provisioning and updating, simplifies compliance settings management, inventories network resources, guards against corporate data leakage, performs health monitoring, allows secure end-user self service, and offers a single control mechanism for administering mixed-operating system ecosystems based on on-prem, cloud, or hybrid deployment topologies. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM consulting team and Azure cloud integration experts can assist your organization with any aspect of planning, installing, using and repairing a SCCM solution for on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environments.
Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft-certified engineers and experienced database application programmers, database administrators, project managers, Cisco-certified network engineers, disaster recovery planning specialists, and data security professionals to assist your business to assess the potential advantages of SQL Server 2012 for your business, install pilot systems at your datacenter or at Progent's test lab, design and carry out an efficient migration to SQL Server 2012 from earlier releases of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS platforms, and define a cost-effective and secure network infrastructure that lets you realize the full strategic benefit of SQL Server 2012.
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of effective network integration, executive administration, marketing, and operations. He has demonstrated a talent for developing elegant information technology solutions during his time as as a network designer, application developer, project manager, implementation consultant, and problem solver for small businesses, new ventures, and major corporations.
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, configure, and manage a deployment of 365 Total Backup to preserve your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files stored on your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered endpoints.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a range of consulting services for Dynamics GP. Dynamics GP is a Microsoft financial package and business management tool built, like all Microsoft financial tools, on the scalable and popular foundation of Microsoft Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010, the most recent edition of Microsoft accounting products in the Dynamics GP line, offers an affordable solution for controlling and combining finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, customer relationships, and human resources. Microsoft Dynamics GP is simple to install and integrate, and with its segmented approach you can license only the capability you currently need, with the ability to expand clients and increase capabilities when necessary. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software support engineers can help you install, customize and administer Dynamics GP 2010 and also older editions of Dynamics GP.
Progent's CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts offer advanced support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (previously CallManager). Progent can help your organization to integrate VoIP phones, create dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability systems.
Remote management cards offer IT administrators full control of a server without the need for an on-site presence. Using remote management cards, all console screen data plus keyboard and mouse operations are exported to a remote session to an IT expert who can be located anywhere with Internet access. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can help you to plan, deploy, and support a fault-tolerant business network that incorporates remote management cards and Progent can utilize these remote management cards to deliver efficient off-site technical assistance. Progent has experience with a variety of remote server management cards including Aten remote server management cards, American Megatrends remote server management cards, Dell remote server management cards, HP Lights-Out remote management cards, and Peppercon remote management cards.
Progent can assist your IT team to plan and administer cost-effective ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux operating systems and apps in both cloud-based systems or in hybrid architectures that utilize physical IT assets as well as one or more public clouds. To assist you to incorporate public cloud services with networks, Progent offers a variety of cloud integration services that include Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services cloud integration support, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and debugging. Progent has two decades of experience providing high-level consulting support online, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud integration initiatives quickly and affordably.