Fort Wayne, Indiana Microsoft Premier Certified Exchange Consultants
Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 Implementation Architecture Support, Migration Support, and Troubleshooting Experts
Progent's Microsoft-certified support professionals have over 20 years of experience helping businesses of all sizes to plan, set up, and maintain email solutions based on Exchange Server. For companies in Fort Wayne Indiana, Progent provides a variety of economical Microsoft Exchange Server design and maintenance services to ensure that your company's messaging system features:
Data security
Rules-based virus and spam defense and content filtering
High availability
Convenient access for off-site and on-the-road workers
Streamlined management tools
Universal mail boxes with voicemail, IM, Real-time Presence, and video conferencing support
Non-intrusive and high-speed backup and recovery
Tight coordination of on-premises and cloud resources
Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server support and maintenance specialists can help your company to plan and execute efficient migrations from out-of-date email systems to a current Microsoft Exchange release. Progent's 64-bit upgrade consultants can assist your company to evaluate the business advantages and costs of moving to a 64-bit edition of Exchange Server and can assist you to create and implement an efficient upgrade plan to a 64-bit edition of Exchange Server. Progent's Power BI consultants can show you how to utilize data from Exchange files to build modern visualizations to produce interactive Power BI business analytics reports and dashboards. Progent can also help you to expand your Exchange-powered messaging solution with the latest smartphones by offering BYOD integration support services such as iPhone and iPad integration and Google Android smartphone and tablet integration.
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid networks that combine Office 365 and on-premises Exchange systems. This permits you to have certain Exchange mailboxes hosted on your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes resident on Office 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consulting team can assist your organization with any phase of designing, integrating and debugging your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you through challenging technical bottlenecks and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Office 365 solution is successfully completed on time and on budget. For details about Progent's consulting services for hybrid Office 365 and on-premises Exchange systems, refer to Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange.
MS Exchange 2019 Deployment Services
Progent can assist you in any facet of your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2019 such as deploying Windows Server 2019 Core as a host for Exchange; designing HA system topology for an on-premises, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; migrating mailboxes; designing and configuring Hyper-V; setting up hardware load balancing; building Database Availability Groups (DAGs) with MCDB solid-state caching; setting up Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail; setting up collaboration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating firewalls; integration with O365; and setting up Outlook clients. To learn more, visit Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 deployment services.
Microsoft Exchange 2016 Server Support
Exchange Server 2016's consolidated design allows simplified deployment and scale, higher utilization of hardware resources, and reduced management cost. Microsoft Exchange 2016 also offers tighter integration with Office 365, support for Windows Server 2016, higher I/O performance, improved data loss protection (DLP), and better recovery, more extensive support for Apple iOS and Android smart phones and tablets, comprehensive browser-based management, and a more functional web client. Learn more about Progent's MS Exchange Server 2016 support services.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Configuration
Exchange Server 2013 includes major enhancements to the capabilities of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and introduces powerful new features plus a redesigned structure. These improvements affect vital IT areas such as ease of administration, high availability (HA), security, cost of ownership, collaboration, scalability, performance, compatibility, and productivity. Progent's certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting professionals can assist your organization to understand the potential advantages of upgrading to Exchange Server 2013, design a cost-effective test and rollout plan, and educate your IT team to manage your Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent can also provide affordable remote consulting and support and management for Exchange 2013. Find out more details concerning Progent's Exchange Server 2013 support services.
MS Exchange 2010 introduced breakthrough solutions for high-availability, secure, integrated communications. Relative to Microsoft Exchange 2007 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, MS Exchange 2010 Server is more affordable to deploy and support, easier to administer and expand, richer in features, faster, less vulnerable to hardware failure, more extensive in its services for mobile users, and better equipped to safeguard sensitive information and defend against hacker assaults. Find out more details about Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2010 support services.
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Help
Exchange 2007 is engineered to meet the challenges of protection, ubiquitous connectivity, high performance, and reliability. Exchange Server 2007 provides designed-in fault tolerance that delivers enterprise-class robustness to keep your Exchange system up and running, reduce spam and malicious email, and help your business to comply with regulatory standards. Find out more details about Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 help.
Exchange 2003 Consultants
Exchange Server 2003 delivers a dependable, expandable, and easy-to-manage infrastructure with round-the-clock messaging and collaboration as well as low licensing cost. MS Exchange 2003 remains widely used due to the fact that it supports a wide range of collaborative activities, such as scheduling utilities, chat groups, and team folders, and also allows access to information across geographic, organizational, and protocol borders with features like Instant Messaging, real-time data, and multimedia support. Despite the fact that Microsoft has withdrawn support for the product, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 remains one of the most popular editions of Microsoft's Exchange family. Progent's consultants can help your business to maintain your current Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 solution or migrate to a more advanced version of Microsoft Exchange Server. Find out more information concerning Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 consulting services.
MS Exchange 2000 Support
In contrast to Exchange 5.5, which uses its own directory, Microsoft Exchange 2K utilizes Microsoft Active Directory, providing a simplified management and protection architecture. Exchange Server 2000 still has a large installed base although Microsoft has ceased to support for the platform. Progent's seasoned email engineers offer a decade of experience working with Exchange 2K and can assist your business to maintain your current Exchange 2000 installation or explain the economic benefits of more recent releases of Exchange and help you to migrate efficiently to a newer release of the industry's most successful email technology. Find out additional details about Progent's Exchange Server 2000 support services.
MS Exchange 2016 Server Migration Consulting
Progent's experts can assist you with all stages of your MS Exchange Server 2016 migration including planning, testing, mailbox migration, client remediation and management/end user training. Progent's Exchange consultants can assist you to evaluate the strategic benefits of adopting Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, design and implement an efficient migration, and deliver as-needed troubleshooting. Progent can help you to build a Microsoft Exchange 2016 Server environment that utilizes local and/or cloud datacenters. Find out more about how Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2016 Server migration planning and support expertise can assist you to upgrade non-disruptively from your current Exchange environment to MS Exchange Server 2016.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Server Migration Expertise
Exchange Server 2013 incorporates important enhancements to MS Exchange 2010 and introduces new functions as well as a simpler design. Progent can help your business to upgrade to Exchange 2013 Server utilizing as much as feasible of your current resources. Progent's experts can also assist your business to configure Exchange Server 2013 with Lync 2013, SharePoint, and Office desktop or Office 365 for advanced collaboration and enterprise search features. Learn how Progent's MS Exchange 2013 upgrade consultants can help you upgrade efficiently to Microsoft Exchange 2013 Server for local, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
MS Exchange 2010 Server Migration Support
Progent offers expert support for each phase of your Exchange 2010 upgrade including end-to-end project management, site readiness preparation, project planning, specification of all new software licenses and equipment required, suggested vendor sourcing, system verification at customer location or at Progent's testing facility, setting up transitional coexistence between Exchange 2010 Server and Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2007, deployment the solution, deactivating the previous servers, and training for client's IT staff and end users. Read more details about how Progent's Exchange 2010 Migration Support Services can assist your business to transition economically and productively from your legacy Exchange system to MS Exchange 2010 Server
Spam Filtering, Data Loss Protection plus Email Content Filtering and Email Encryption ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering, data loss protection and email encryption solution that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Email Guard Spam Filtering, Virus Defense, Content Filtering and Data Loss Protection.
Migration Consulting for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Skype for Business Server
Progent's Microsoft Teams integrators and Skype for Business experts can provide online and onsite expertise for companies of any size to assess the benefits of migrating to Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business or Skype for Business Online from any version of Microsoft Lync Server or Office Communications Server. Progent can help you to design an on-premises, cloud or mixed topology; integrate Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business with SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office; configure high-availability solutions; connect Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business with your PSTN gateway; and interface with third-party communication platforms such as Cisco Video Interop Server. Progent's certified information security consultants can help you design and validate a security strategy for your Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business deployment that meets regulatory standards.
Get in Touch with Progent for Exchange Consulting
If your Indiana IT organization is looking for Microsoft Exchange Server consulting professional, contact Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.
Before Progent’s MOM-based solution, network issues were handled reactively, after workers were impacted by them. With the benefit of proactive, computer generated alerts and trend reports created by Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can now address server issues before they grow to be critical enough to impact network availability. Thanks to Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can resolve incipient problems before clients are aware that the problems are there. Progent has background with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and MOM 2000 to provide small company networks enterprise-class availability, security and performance.
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Progent can help businesses of any size to follow leading practices to configure SCVMM 2012 hosts, fabric, storage systems, and libraries; design, implement, and administer private clouds, VMs, and services in SCVMM 2012; and combine SCVMM with System Center 2012 Operations Manager for comprehensive monitoring and reporting. Progent can assist you to move from an earlier version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from a third-party management system, and Progent can assist you to optimize and repair your current SCVMM ecosystem to make sure you get maximum business value.
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to modular enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, minimizing common OS-specific security holes.
Progent can assist your business to configure Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage and monitor Wi-Fi networks of any size. Progent can help you to maintain and troubleshoot your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi solution or carry out a smooth upgrade to Cisco's modern Wi-Fi controller solutions.
Progent's certified Microsoft Windows 2000 consulting staff can show you how to enhance the functionality of your current Windows 2K Servers and can simplify system management, offer tech support and troubleshooting, and strengthen security. Progent can also help you create, rationalize, and implement a strategy to migrate from Microsoft Windows Server 2000 to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Progent is experienced in setting up pilot programs to reduce the obstacles associated with migrating to Windows 2003 Server by uncovering possible hardware and application compatibility problems.
Progent can give you access to application developers who can modify your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and financial system applications to meet your particular business requirements. Progent’s Microsoft support experts offer expertise in Microsoft AX ERP Software, Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Solomon, and Microsoft Retail Management Software. Progent also provides custom e-Commerce consulting support for safe, corporate-wide resource sharing plus integration with Customer Relationship Management packages.
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously called SyteLine, is an ERP platform that embodies over 25 years of experience helping manufacturing and distribution companies to manage complex supply chains and improve the efficiency of key business processes in order to get products to market quickly and meet customer schedules dependably. Progent offers the skills of an ERP consultant with over 20 years of background working with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial product family. Progent can provide remote or onsite services that can range from as-needed guidance to end-to-end solution design and project management. Sample consulting services offered by Progent for Infor CloudSuite Industrial include installation, upgrades, business analysis, application development, CPQ, web site integration, debugging, data conversion, Amazon AWS integration, disaster recovery planning, and database administration.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated collection of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating crucial sales activities such as listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, vendors can broaden their market, reduce their operating costs, improve reaction time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can collaborate with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can cut development time and costs and speed up your return on investment.
Progent’s Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service professionals provide telephone support and online secure network access to troubleshoot and resolve network problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of technical expertise available from Progent's staff of country-wide support professionals makes it possible to escalate even the toughest problems to qualified experts as needed.
Progent has a long background providing a broad range of online network consulting and urgent troubleshooting services to local governments and schools throughout the U.S. Progent is one of the industry’s pioneers in delivering expert online IT consulting and has delivered IT solutions to clients in every state. Remote support eliminates travel costs and resolves issues more quickly than on-premises service calls.
Progent’s Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity specialists have in-depth experience helping small businesses to minimize system downtime by offering affordable remote consulting for disaster recovery/business continuity planning, fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, data backup and restore systems, and transparent maintenance. Progent’s business continuity consultants can assist you to develop and validate a sensible business continuity plan that aligns with your business needs and IT budget. Progent’s disaster recovery specialists can help you to design, implement, and manage resilient technologies including non-stop Internet connectivity, virtualized servers, fail-over clustering, network load balancing, transparent off-site backup, and multi-location hot backup centers.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants provide a variety of support services for Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains). Microsoft Dynamics GP is an accounting and ERP solution based, like all Microsoft financial tools, on the scalable and popular platform of Windows technology. Dynamics GP offers a cost-effective solution for managing and integrating accounting, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, and human resources. Dynamics GP is easy to install and configure, and with its segmented design you can license only the functions you currently require, with the option to add users and increase capabilities in the future. Progent’s Dynamics GP/Great Plains support engineers can help you install, configure and administer the current release of Microsoft Dynamics GP or migrate smoothly from an earlier edition.
Progent is a leader in affordably providing world-class IT support to small businesses. Progent's achievement in addressing the IT support needs of the historically underserviced small company sector is the cumulative result of major technical and operational innovations that have eliminated much of the traditional expenses out of administering IT support, injected unmatched technical skill into the IT service mechanism, and dramatically streamlined the solution process.
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Progent's support experts in Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows technology can help you integrate Mac and Windows systems into seamless environments with full sharing and workgroup support. Enabling efficient cooperation among a mix of servers and desktops powered by Apple Mac OS and Windows calls for broad knowledge of and background with Apple Macintosh and Windows products. Progent's background in Microsoft and Macintosh service makes it possible to offer world class support to companies that rely on these platforms to maintain their competitive advantage. Progent's consultants can also help your business to integrate Apple's iPhones and iPads to operate with smoothly with your Windows environment.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's economical antispam and antivirus solution that offers small businesses enterprise-quality protection against spam, viruses, DHA attacks, and other types of e-mail-based assaults on IT networks. E-Mail Guard is built on Postini's perimeter management technology, a sophisticated library of web-managed anti-spam and antivirus services that ward off email assaults before they can penetrate the corporate firewall. Perimeter Manager also lets administrators track and manage their email application, regardless of server platform, hardware type, or data center location.
Cisco has designed a full product line of routers that includes routers built to provide the security, performance, and reliability required by organizations ranging from small businesses to worldwide enterprises and ISPs. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic failover, and backup power for improved reliability and network availability. Progent can show you how to select and configure Cisco routers to establish a reliable infrastructure for your IT system and to make it easy to grow as you add new users, start new offices, install new services, extend your network to customers and partners, and manage an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent can provide expertise in a range of routers based on Cisco's IOS platform, including the Cisco 800 series of small office VPN routers, Cisco 1800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for WAN edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, plus older 3600 and 3700 Series Routers.
If your business operates a UNIX, Linux, or Sun Solaris network or a mixed-platform IT environment, Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security specialists can assist your entire enterprise in a wide array of security topics including security management procedures, security design and strategies, access control products and techniques, applications development security, operations security, physical security, communications, network and web security, and disaster recovery preparedness. CISM, CISSP and ISSAP stipulate the basic competencies and worldwide standards of knowledge that network security professionals are required to possess. These accreditations give executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISA or CISM certification have the background and knowledge to offer effective security support and consulting services.
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-grade products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, high throughput, and high availability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally known as CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications such as Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified network consultants can deliver efficient and budget-friendly remote and onsite expertise to help organizations of any size to build and maintain Unified CM deployments by providing Unified Communications Manager integration and technical support services that deliver maximum business value. Progent can help with any aspect of Unified CM configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop Video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, creating UCS server failover solutions for high availability, performance tuning, and integration with Exchange Server.
Progent's pricing policy is to charge for online support and on-site visits per minute. As a result, you pay exclusively for delivered support. Progent does not demand a higher rate for off-hours or urgent service, and within California or in areas where Progent offers in-person support, Progent does not charge for travel time except for emergency support where on-site time is less than four hours. Also, Progent imposes no service activation charge and requires no retainer for services delivered during normal working hours. Many support firms demand large minimum payments or charge for every fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's small granularity does away with big bills for quick fixes so you won't be tempted to permit minor problems to fester.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide online or in-person support to help organizations of any size to plan, implement, administer, and troubleshoot a backup/restore system based on System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (SCDPM 2012). Progent's consultants can assist you to migrate from older versions of Data Protection Manager or from another backup/recovery platform, and Progent can optimize your SCDPM 2012 implementation for onsite, cloud-based, or hybrid environments. Progent can provide as-needed support for resolving particularly stubborn problems, or comprehensive project management support. Progent can also assist you to incorporate SCDPM 2012 into a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy.
Network monitoring typically involves observing a network’s resource usage to help uncover throughput bottlenecks or fix hardware or software issues. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are useful, license-free monitoring tools that run under Linux or UNIX and can be deployed to monitor mixed-platform environments where Linux and Windows operate together. Progent's system support consultants can help you use both these programs to optimize and troubleshoot your network. Progent's Linux consulting services provide small businesses and developers assistance with administering and servicing UNIX/Linux and Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based products.
Progent’s fault tolerant network experts offer non-stop computing support, disaster recovery services, system load balancing, 24x7 interoffice connectivity, high-availability Internet interface design, non-stop data center support, and other 24x7 operations support to show your company design a non-stop environment for strategic applications. Progent possesses the experience to develop economical, 24x7 networks by deploying the evolving library of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers such as Microsoft Windows Cluster Server 2003, SQL Cluster Server, and Exchange Cluster Server. Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can show you how to you design a fault tolerant mutli-location network with a completely redundant Internet interface and intelligent network load balancing.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants offer economical remote and onsite consulting expertise, application development, and debugging support for businesses of all sizes who want to migrate to SharePoint Server 2016 or SharePoint Online from prior releases of SharePoint.
Progent's certified SonicWall firewall experts can help you integrate, maintain, and update SonicWall firewall/VPN appliances including the current SonicWall TZ and NSa Series of firewalls and the older SonicWall PRO 2040 products. Progent's CISSP and CISA-certified cybersecurity consultants can show you how to incorporate SonicWall security gateways into a complete security solution and design protection into your corporate practices.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to plan for, deploy, and operate Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012). Progent can assist you to migrate smoothly to Configuration Manager 2012 from an older change management solution or assist you to enhance your current SCCM 2012 environment to support your evolving business requirements. In addition, Progent can help you to create a software foundation that extracts the most value from SCCM 2012 by delivering advanced consulting support for related Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory Domain Services, SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services, and Internet Information Services (IIS).
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified network security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protection of data assets, and disaster recovery planning.
Progent is a leader in affordably providing world-class network support to small companies. Progent's achievement in handling the IT support needs of the historically underserved small company market is the combined result of key technical and process innovations that have removed a great deal of the traditional expenses out of managing IT service, added unmatched technical skill into the IT service mechanism, and dramatically streamlined the repair cycle.
Progent's Juniper-authorized NetScreen engineer can assist you to install and optimize NetScreen 5000 series routers, migrate from previous NetScreen devices to the latest Juniper products, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues in all-Juniper or mixed-vendor systems.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts can provide advanced support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (formerly CallManager). Progent can help your organization to integrate VoIP phones, create dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploy ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability systems.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of successful network integration, corporate administration, sales, and operations. He has shown a talent for developing sophisticated information technology solutions while working as a network architect, software developer, project manager, deployment consultant, and troubleshooter for small businesses, new ventures, and major enterprises.
Progent offers the services of BlackBerry-certified consultants who can help small companies to design, administer, and troubleshoot BlackBerry technology economically and effectively, eliminating the need for an internal BlackBerry expert and reducing the expense and hassle of maintaining a mobile workforce. Progent's BlackBerry specialists offer extensive backgrounds cooperating with Progent's Microsoft-expert consultants, Cisco CCIE engineers, and CISA and CISM-certified security engineers. This breadth of expertise, combined with Progent's proven remote support model, provides small and mid-size companies an efficient solution for integrating BlackBerry technology productively into their information system.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Online consultants can provide economical online and on-premises expertise, application development, and troubleshooting services for organizations of all sizes who want to migrate to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from prior versions of SharePoint. Progent can assist customers plan and carry out a cost-effective upgrade to SharePoint 2019 on premises, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid environment that incorporates local and cloud infrastructure into a cohesive intranet system.
Progent's ProSight family of managed services are designed to provide businesses who have small internal IT administration and support staffs with low-cost help from world-class management tools and technical experts. Benefits of the ProSight catalog of managed services include flat-rate network management costs, automation of routine administrative tasks, continual adoption of the latest information technology, smooth migration from legacy technology to modern solutions, close alignment of information technology with strategic objectives, guidance from seasoned network experts, and allowing management to focus on business issues instead of ever-changing information technology.
Progent's Cisco-Meraki Wi-Fi access point consultants can help you to design, set up, manage and debug Cisco's Meraki-based Wi-Fi networks for environments from a small office to a campus or a nationwide enterprise. Progent can also assist you to incorporate other Cisco devices for streamlined management.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to evaluate the value of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for your environment and can help you to plan and carry out an installation of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 that centralizes the management of Instant Messaging and Presence and increases the productivity of your in-house staff, telecommuters, and mobile workforce. Progent can in addition assist your company to carry out an efficient upgrade to Microsoft Lync Server 2010 from Microsoft Office Communications Server or from Live Communications Server, integrate Lync Server with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server, show you how you can run Microsoft Lync Server to improve the collaborative capabilities of MS Office applications, and offer training and continuing support for Lync Server 2010 and other Microsoft products.
Progent's pricing policy is to bill for remote service and on-premises help by the minute. Consequently, you are billed exclusively for delivered support. Progent does not impose a more expensive rate for off-hours or emergency support, and within California or in regions where Progent provides in-person service, Progent does not bill for travel except for emergency support where on-site work is less than four hours. In addition, Progent applies no service activation fee and asks no retainer for support services provided during normal business hours. Many support firms impose substantial minimum payments or charge for each quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity avoids big invoices for quick fixes so you will not be forced to allow simple problems to stay unaddressed.
Progent can assist companies of all sizes to move all or part of their network infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This can simplify network administration and reduce hardware investments. Microsoft Azure offers a wealth of cloud services and Progent can assist you to evaluate the benefits and restrictions of various cloud networking models you can use with Azure. Progent can help you manage cloud-based or hybrid cloud and local apps and resources and make sure that you avoid the typical errors small organizations make when migrating to a public cloud. Progent can assist you to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, utilize VHD storage with Azure Storage, handle user identity with Azure Active Directory, and automate backup-and-recovery services with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to prepare firewalls and IPsec VPN connections and to manage iPhones and iPads and Google Android smartphones and tablets.
Progent’s team of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts average more than ten years of hands-on industry background, at the forefront of IT service, executing a broad variety of IT tasks for a large array of clients. Each Progent consultant shares a proven set of individual best practices that are incorporated into company-wide best practices training that Progent teaches its support personnel. This guarantees that you get not just world-class technical help, but also a consultant with field-tested approaches for applying computer knowledge to resolve real-world network problems quickly.
Configuration Manager automates application and device provisioning at scale, simplifies compliance settings management, inventories network assets, guards against corporate data leakage, performs health monitoring, enables secure self service, and offers a common point of control for managing multi-operating system networks running on-prem, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment topologies. Progent's Microsoft-certified Configuration Manager consultants and Azure cloud integration specialists can assist businesses of any size with any aspect of designing, implementing, using and repairing a System Center Configuration Manager solution for local, cloud-based, or hybrid networks.
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can help you to run Cisco's management utilities alongside a variety of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management solution to keep your environment operating reliably, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, revive rapidly from hardware failure or deliberate assaults, and enable you to add or repurpose valuable resources sensibly and affordably as your company evolves.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant enhancements to the capabilities of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange 2010 and introduces powerful new features as well as a redesigned architecture. These enhancements affect key areas like manageability, availability, security, cost of ownership, collaboration, extensibility, performance, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to evaluate the potential advantages of upgrading to Exchange 2013, design an efficient validation and deployment strategy, and educate your IT staff to maintain your Exchange Server 2013 solution. Progent can also provide ongoing online consulting and management services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
Progent's certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the potential advantages of Hyper-V-based server virtualization for your company, perform pilot installations to validate Hyper-V's operation with your production applications, evaluate your network architecture for smooth performance with virtualization technology, help you in migrating to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and configuring Hyper-V, train your network management personnel to monitor and manage Hyper-V, provide expert consulting support for improving the security of your virtual machines, establish and test disaster recovery processes that maximize network availability, and provide continuing consulting and technical support including affordable remote repair and turn-key Help Desk services.
Progent provides a selection of IT support bundles for small companies. These IT outsourcing and network monitoring solutions are built around the proactive problem solving abilities of Operations Manager 2007, a next-generation network and IT support software platform that monitors the reliability, performance, and security of your information system and isolates incipient troubles before they can disrupt your system. With Progent's affordably priced network service programs, small companies can choose a simple co-sourcing package based on System Center Operations Manager with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote troubleshooting or a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing package.
Progent's certified SQL Server application developers and DBAs offer remote consulting to help organizations of all sizes to build, manage, and troubleshoot applications based on the Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS platform and Microsoft's .NET framework. Progent's SQL Server consultants can provide help with any facet of the application life cycle in solutions that can include small business or departmental databases to N-tier VLDB applications and data warehousing.