MS Exchange and Office365 Configuration, Migration, and Consulting Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified support professionals have over two decades of background helping companies of all sizes to plan, configure, and support messaging systems built around Exchange. For companies in Maryland, Progent offers a variety of economical Microsoft Exchange Server consulting and maintenance services to ensure that your company's messaging system features:
Data security
Rules-based virus and spam blocking and content filtering
Dependability
Easy access for remote and mobile users
Efficient management tools
Universal mail boxes with voice messaging, IM, Presence, and video conferencing services
Non-intrusive and fast backup and restoration
Tight coordination of on-premises and cloud-based networks
Progent's Microsoft Exchange consulting and troubleshooting professionals can help your business to prepare for and execute efficient migrations from outdated email environments to an up-to-date Exchange release. Progent's 64-bit migration experts can assist your company to assess the business benefits and costs of moving to a 64-bit edition of Microsoft Exchange Server and can assist you to design and execute an efficient migration strategy to a 64-bit release of Exchange Server. Progent's Power BI consultants can show you how to use data from Exchange spreadsheets to build modern visualizations to incorporate into collaborative Power BI analytical reports and dashboards. Progent can also assist your company to integrate your Exchange-based email solution with the latest smartphones and tablets by providing BYOD integration support services like Apple iPhone integration and Google Android phone and tablet integration.
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and local Exchange deployments. This allows you to have some mailboxes located on your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can help you with any facet of designing, implementing and debugging your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver occasional expertise to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange solution is completed on time and within budget. To learn more about Progent's online consulting support for hybrid Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange environments, refer to Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange.
Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server Deployment Services
Progent can assist your organization in any facet of your migration to Exchange Server 2019 including deploying Windows Server 2019 for hosting Exchange; planning HA infrastructure for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid environment; moving mailboxes; designing and implementing Windows Hyper-V; setting up hardware load balancing; setting up DAG groups with MCDB solid-state caching; setting up Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail; integration with SharePoint; preparing firewalls; integration with Microsoft Office 365; and setting up Outlook clients. To learn more, visit Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server planning and configuration services.
Exchange 2016 Server Support
MS Exchange Server 2016's new design permits simplified implementation and scale, higher utilization of equipment, and reduced administration expense. MS Exchange Server 2016 offers tighter integration with Office 365 apps, operation with Microsoft Windows Server 2016, higher I/O performance, enhanced data loss protection (DLP), and better recovery, feature-rich support for iOS and Android mobile devices, full web-based management, and a more complete web client. Read more details concerning Progent's MS Exchange 2016 support services.
Exchange 2013 Server Configuration
Exchange Server 2013 includes major enhancements to the functionality of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and delivers important innovations plus a revamped structure. These improvements affect key facets of IT such as manageability, high availability (HA), compliance, cost of ownership, teamwork, extensibility, performance, cross-version interoperability, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting professionals can help you evaluate the potential business benefits of migrating to Exchange 2013, create an efficient validation and rollout strategy, and educate your IT staff to manage your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent can also provide affordable remote support and management for Microsoft Exchange 2013. Learn more concerning Progent's Exchange 2013 Server support.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 delivered powerful new solutions for high-availability, protected, unified messaging. In comparison to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010 Server is less expensive to deploy and maintain, easier to administer and scale, richer in features, faster, less subject to single-point breakdown, more extensive in its services for mobile users, and better equipped to protect sensitive information and defend against malicious attacks. Read more concerning Progent's MS Exchange 2010 Server consulting services.
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Consulting
MS Exchange 2007 Server is engineered to address the challenges of security, anywhere access, efficiency, and dependability. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 offers designed-in fault tolerance that delivers world-class robustness to keep your email system operating smoothly, combat spam and viruses, and enable your company to adhere to government and industry standards. Read more about Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support.
MS Exchange Server 2003 Consultants
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 offers a reliable, scalable, and easy-to-manage infrastructure with 24×7 messaging and collaboration as well as reasonable cost of ownership. Exchange Server 2003 continues to be in wide use due to the fact that it supports a broad selection of collaborative functions, such as scheduling utilities, chat groups, and group folders, and also provides sharing of data across physical, logical, and protocol boundaries with features like IM, real-time data, and multimedia support. Though Microsoft has withdrawn support for this older platform, Microsoft Exchange 2003 is still among the most widely used editions of the Exchange product line. Progent's consultants can help your business to support your existing Microsoft Exchange 2003 solution or migrate to the latest version of Exchange Server. Read additional details concerning Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 support.
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Consulting
Unlike MS Exchange 5.5, which has its own directory, Microsoft Exchange 2000 uses MS Active Directory, providing a simplified administration and protection model. Exchange 2000 still has a large installed base although Microsoft has ceased to support for the product. Progent's veteran email experts have extensive background working with Exchange 2K and can help your business to maintain your current Exchange Server 2000 solution or show you the business benefits of more recent releases of Exchange and help you to upgrade efficiently to a newer incarnation of the world's most popular messaging platform. Find out additional information about Progent's MS Exchange Server 2000 support.
Exchange 2016 Server Migration Consulting
Progent can help you with all stages of your Microsoft Exchange 2016 migration including planning, testing, mailbox migration, client remediation and management/end user training. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can assist you to assess the business advantages of adopting MS Exchange 2016, plan and carry out an efficient migration, and deliver as-needed troubleshooting. Progent can help your business to build a Microsoft Exchange 2016 ecosystem hosted on on-premises and/or cloud-based datacenters. Learn more details about how Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2016 migration consultants can assist your organization to move cost-effectively from your legacy Exchange environment to Exchange Server 2016.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Upgrade Planning and Support
MS Exchange 2013 incorporates significant improvements its predecessor MS Exchange 2010 Server and introduces powerful new functions plus a simpler design. Progent's consultants can assist your business to upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2013 utilizing as much as feasible of your existing resources. Progent can also assist your business to configure Microsoft Exchange 2013 with Lync, SharePoint, and Office desktop or Office 365 for enhanced collaboration support and enterprise search features. Find out how Progent's Exchange 2013 Server migration support services can ensure that you upgrade efficiently to Exchange 2013 Server for local, cloud, or hybrid environments.
Exchange Server 2010 Migration Support
Progent offers comprehensive help for every step of your Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration including outsourced or co-sourced project management, site readiness preparation, project design and documentation, cost estimates of new software and equipment required, suggested vendor sourcing, pilot verification at client location or at Progent's test facility, setting up transitional coexistence between Exchange 2010 Server and Exchange 2003 or 2007, implementation the production system, decommissioning the previous system, and training for customer's IT staff and end users. Find out more about ways that Progent's MS Exchange 2010 Migration Support can help your business to transition economically and efficiently from your legacy Exchange system to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection plus Email Content Filtering and Cloud-based Email Encryption ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering, data leakage protection and email encryption solution that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Email Guard Spam Filtering, Virus Defense, Email Content Filtering and Data Leakage Prevention.
Planning and Deployment Consulting for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Server
Progent's Microsoft Teams consultants and Microsoft-certified Skype for Business integrators offer remote and on-premises expertise for companies of any size to evaluate the costs/benefits of upgrading to Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business from any release of Microsoft Lync Server or Microsoft Office Communications Server. Progent can help your business to plan a local, cloud-based or hybrid topology; integrate Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business with SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint and Office; configure high-availability solutions; interface Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business with your PBX system and PSTN gateway; and interface with other communication platforms like Cisco UC. Progent's certified network security consultants can assist you design and validate a security strategy for your Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business solution that meets government and industry requirements.
Contact Progent for Exchange Support
If your Maryland IT organization is looking for Microsoft Exchange Server support professional, contact Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.
Progent's disaster recovery planning and business continuity engineers can show you how to design a disaster recovery strategy to prepare for an IT system disaster. Progent can help you define a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you build an affordable, non-stop network solution that takes into account availability issues involving a broad range of network technologies and procedures.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure consultants offer remote or on-premises configuration and troubleshooting services to help your organization to plan, implement, upgrade, tune, administer and debug Aironet Wi-Fi AP environments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can also help you to integrate your wireless ecosystem with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-hosted resources to create an enterprise-wide connectivity foundation that is easy to manage and expand. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to determine the most efficient selection, placement and configuration of Aironet Wi-Fi access points to work with your specific workplace layout, construction, and expected network traffic.
Progent offers enterprise customers the help of a certified NetApp consultant to deliver online or onsite support for NetApp's entire line of SAN storage products including ONTAP data management, MetroCluster array-based clustering, FlexPod cloud infrastructure, SnapMirror, SnapVauly incremental D2D backup, Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere, MultiStore for secure IP space separation, OnCommand Unified Manager Core, plus NetApp's All-Flash, Hybrid Flash, V-Series and N-Series storage products. Areas of NetApp SAN technology supported by Progent include SAN architecture, cloud integration, virtualization, migrations, transparent updates, storage management, information assurance, disaster recovery, and remediation. Progent offers Tier 3 support to help you to take care of issues with NetApp SAN storage environments quickly and affordably based on leading practices.
Progent can assist you in all facets of your migration to Exchange Server 2016 including planning high availability (HA) infrastructure for an on-premises, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; licensing compliance for Exchange and Windows Server 2012 R2; migrating mailboxes; Windows Hyper-V design; specifying storage requirements for your virtual machines (VMs), databases and log files; setting up hardware load balancing for high-availability CAS services; planning, configuring and validating Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; updating the firewall; creating SSL certs; performing client remediation with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web.
Progent provides live online training for popular desktop apps and operating systems including Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, Access and Project plus Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10. Online training provides the benefits of traditional physical classroom seminars, including instant interaction between clients and teachers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of trying to accommodate the schedules of many trainees. Available to single students or classes of all sizes, Progent's live online training permits the teacher to run the seminar from a remote office and the students can be spread across an office or all over the country. Virtual learning utilizes powerful teaching aids such as virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Classes can be brief and targeted to specific subjects or extended in duration and wider in coverage.
Progent practices information transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By educating customers to handle problems that are within their comfort zone, Progent is able to focus on providing high-value services where Progent has little competition. Small businesses who work with trusted freelance consultants or who employ in-house support staffs benefit when Progent transfers knowledge about critical technology and proven methodologies to make their networks more robust, secure, and productive.
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants offer help with any of the security services covered within GIAC certification such as auditing infrastructure security mechanisms, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
Progent's certified wireless consulting experts can assist organizations of any size to design, implement, administer and repair Cisco Aironet Wi-Fi access point environments to achieve the performance, coverage, capacity, scale, security compliance and manageability needed for transparent connectivity between wireless and wired networks. Progent offers affordable online and onsite support for both legacy and current 802.11ac Aironet wireless access points and Progent can help you plan and maintain deployments of indoor and outdoor Aironet access points.
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Progent is structured to provide in-depth remote consulting for all technologies associated with today’s small business IT networks and offers an array of strategic, on-demand services such as a temporary Chief Information Officer to provide senior-level IT design and budgeting capability, a Call Center for help desk support, proactive remote monitoring, spam/virus filtering as a managed service, project management help for critical projects like office moves orOS migrations, connectivity experts for building and maintaining high-performance and robust network infrastructure, certified security specialists to verify data safety and regulatory compliance, disaster recovery specialists to help design business continuity strategies, and software developers to create, enhance, or troubleshoot mission-critical application programs.
Email Guard from Postini offers continually upgraded spam and virus blocking, data filtering, and protection from email-based directory harvesting and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini aggregator and service firm. If your company is too small to qualify for a regular Postini license, you can still get access to Postini’s Perimeter Management services through Progent’s E-Mail Guard antispam and virus protection service program. Progent’s expert e-mail security consultants can show you how to develop an email protection strategy that includes spam filtering and anti-virus technologies and processes.
Cisco offers a full array of routers including routers designed to deliver the protection, bandwidth, and availability required by organizations ranging from small offices to global enterprises. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failthrough, and backup power for improved fault tolerance and network uptime. Progent can show you how to choose and configure Cisco routers to establish a solid foundation for your IT system and to make it easy to expand as you add new users, open new offices, install new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and support an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent offers help with a range of routers based on Cisco's IOS operating system, such as Cisco's 800 series of small office routers, Cisco 1800 and 2800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 routers for WAN edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, as well as older 1700 and 2600 Routers.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated collection of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their business processes by automating key sales activities including listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and finances. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online ecosystem and automating their sales, vendors can expand their reach, reduce their cost of sales, improve response time to customers, and add to their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can collaborate with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can shorten development time and costs and speed up your return on investment.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi consultants can help your business to plan, implement, optimize, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi network adapted to your environment. Progent offers remote or on-premises expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi planning and Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF measurement.
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner with special competencies such as Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Certified Partners are the elite organizations who earn the highest client endorsement and are afforded the closest operational relationship with Microsoft. The understanding, skills, and commitment needed to earn the status of Microsoft Certified Partner benefits Progent's customers by allowing Progent to provide your company better technical solutions for your IT system.
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore service for small and medium-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a custom-designed hardware storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which utilizes your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital business data produced on-premises, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad range of consulting services to help you to design, configure, operate and repair a BDR solution built on Barracuda Backup.
Small to mid-sized companies can now enjoy all the advantages of System Center Operations Manager 2007 and also have fast access to Progent’s Microsoft Certified network consulting professionals. With Progent's economically priced network service packages, small and midsize organizations can select a basic Microsoft System Center Operations Manager-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online troubleshooting or a complete 24x7 outsourcing solution. Progent offers expertise in System Center Operations Manager 2007 to offer small company information systems enterprise-class availability, protection, and performance.
Progent's background providing Microsoft .NET services and Microsoft SQL Server consulting, and Progent's programming experience with VBasic, XML, and other developer platforms make it possible to design custom line-of-business programs and eCommerce environments that operate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting consultants can show you how to design reports that allow you to track your business more effectively, turning uncooked information into valuable insights into your business.
Progent's Cisco CCIE wireless network infrastructure experts can provide online or on-premises integration and troubleshooting support to help you to design, configure, update, tune, manage and troubleshoot Aironet Wi-Fi access point deployments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can also help you to combine your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-based resources to build an enterprise-wide connectivity solution that is simple to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to determine the most efficient selection, location and configuration of Aironet Wi-Fi APs to work with your unique workplace design, building structure, and expected network traffic.
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to select high availability data centers that match the particular needs of your company. High availability colocation sites are especially appealing to small companies because of their affordability and simplified logistics in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to build an in-house data center with even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for typical small organizations. Progent is ready to help you get all the advantages of non-stop data centers and fault tolerant colo sites by offering a complete array of consulting and maintenance services.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2000 consultants can provide computer support and information technology consulting services for the entire line of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, Windows Server 2000, and Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. Progent's Windows 2000 Server configuration, update, and troubleshooting offerings include network planning, deployment, documentation, on-site and off-site technical support, Call Center outsourcing, professional security consulting, full service outsourcing, and cost-effective co-sourcing.