Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, install, and manage an implementation of 365 Total Backup to back up and restore your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files residing within your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint Document Libraries, Teams Chats, plus files on Windows laptops and desktops.
Progent's Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E Wireless Access Point experts can provide economical remote and on-premises support for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless access points.
Progent's CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants offer high-level support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (formerly CallManager). Progent can assist your organization to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability solutions.
For businesses that have a combination of Apple Mac and Windows computers, there are two basic alternatives for running Microsoft Windows-dependent software on macOS or OS X: an external connection to an actual Windows PC or local simulation of a Windows environment on a macOS or Mac OS X desktop. Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac allows you to attach a Mac to a remote Microsoft Windows-powered computer to use Windows applications and access network resources. Microsoft's Virtual PC for Mac emulates Windows on a Mac system so that you are able to use Windows applications locally. Progent's Mac technology support experts can help you to maintain these solutions for using Windows applications on your Macs and can also assist your business to assess and install third-party products for Windows PC simulation.
Progent's Sun Solaris family consulting services offer small businesses and developers support for managing and maintaining Sun Solaris systems that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your organization access to Sun Solaris experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM credentials. This broad array of expertise provides you with an easy single source to help you build and manage a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that supports Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with major versions of UNIX such as Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V improves virtualization in important areas such as secure multitenancy, agile network infrastructure, cloud readiness, expandability and throughput, and high availability. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to take advantage of Hyper-V to deploy and manage virtual servers to cut network costs and enhance productivity.
Progent's expertise providing Microsoft .NET services and SQL Server consulting, and Progent's programming experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and additional developer platforms enable Progent to design specialized mission-critical programs and eCommerce solutions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains management reporting consultants can help you create reports that let you analyze your business more thoroughly, turning raw information into useful understanding of your company and customers.
Les Kent has a 35-year history of effective technology integration, executive management, sales, and operations. He has shown a knack for developing elegant information technology solutions during his time as as a system architect, programmer, project manager, deployment expert, and problem solver for small businesses, start-ups, and global enterprises.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified Windows Server 2022 consultants can help your company to plan and implement a cost-effective upgrade to Windows Server 2022 using a self-hosted deployment architecture or a hybrid deployment model that combines cloud-hosted Windows Server Online with an on-site installation of Windows Server 2022.
Widows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V advances the power of virtualization in important areas such as secure multitenancy, flexible network infrastructure, cloud support, scalability and performance, and fault tolerance. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to take advantage of Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V to install and manage virtual servers to cut IT expenses and enhance productivity.
Progent's Palo Alto Networks firewall consultants can help you select, deploy, and manage Palo Alto Networks firewall appliances to create a modern security ecosystem that extends across your data center and cloud assets and protects any user at any location with any device.
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Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have over a decade of experience designing, deploying, enhancing and fixing System Center Operations Manager solutions and can provide companies of all sizes expert remote or on-premises consulting services for SCOM 2012. Progent can help your company to plan an architecture for SCOM 2012 servers that provides the performance and resilience required to monitor your IT resources efficiently, whether your infrastructure are on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also assist you to install and customize Microsoft SCOM 2012 management packs based on best practices for monitoring network fabric as well as Microsoft and 3rd-party apps and services. In addition, Progent can deliver fast remote or onsite technical support to assist you to remediate serious issues detected by SCOM 2012.
Progent offers affordable online support for all editions of Microsoft Access including Access desktop and Access Web App and offers expert support for application programming, database conversion, performance tuning, report design, and maintenance. Progent also offers tailored webinar classes for Office Access application programming and DBA services.
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can provide small and mid-sized companies expert Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, Web-enabled database and data analysis platform that enables the speedy creation of enterprise-class business programs that can give your business a competitive edge. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and the ability to query across the Internet and outside the corporate firewall. In addition to providing consulting, support and problem solving services, Progent's SQL consultants can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the business value of your IT network. Progent can also help you upgrade from older versions of Microsoft SQL Server to SQL Server 2005.
Progent's software experts have worked for 20 years with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development system and are able to create or update .NET applications quickly and affordably.
Progent's Shared Call Center service makes it possible for your business to split the load for Help Desk support transparently between your in-house IT team and Progent's roster of certified desktop support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Help Desk Co-management service is a collaborative support solution built around ConnectWise Manage, the top shared professional services automation platform for handling end-user service requests, ticketing, ownership, progress tracking, and reporting.
Progent's managed services for patch management provide organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your servers, endpoint devices printers, infrastructure appliances such as routers and wireless APs, and Internet-of-Things devices such as sensors and robotics.
Progent can assist small and medium-size companies to configure unified remote endpoint management and monitoring solutions for maintaining devices operated by at-home workers.
Besides offering the expertise of Microsoft Dynamics GP specialists, Progent can provide experts in Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV (Navision), Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, Macola ERP, MAS 90 ERP, and QuickBooks Pro by Intuit. Progent can provide programming, troubleshooting, administration help, upgrade assistance, and one-on-one or group webinar training classes customized to meet your particular requirements. Progent's consultants also can help you integrate and support a protected, reliable network foundation to support your ERP, MRP and accounting solutions.
Progent's expertise providing Microsoft .NET services and SQL Server consulting, and Progent's application development experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and other developer tools make it possible to design specialized mission-critical programs and eCommerce environments that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains management reporting services can show you how to design reports that allow you to analyze your business more effectively, transforming raw data into useful insights into your company and customers.
Progent can help small and medium-size companies to configure centralized endpoint management and monitoring systems for maintaining devices used by work-from-home employees.
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Before Progent's MOM-based solution, network problems were handled reactively, after workers complained about them. With the help of proactive, computer generated warnings and trend reports created by MOM, Progent is now able to fix system issues before they becomes serious enough to impact network availability. Thanks to Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can deal with incipient problems before clients know that the problems are there. Progent has expertise with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to deliver small business IT systems enterprise-class service continuity, safety and productivity.
Progent can assist you to plan and administer hybrid ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux operating systems and apps in both cloud-centric solutions or in hybrid network models that combine on-premises resources along with one or more public clouds. To help you to incorporate public cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of cloud migration services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud design and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and debugging. Progent has 20 years of experience providing advanced consulting support online, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud integration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
The QTS Colocation Center is located in the earthquake-neutral Natomas area of Sacramento, CA. If you are now using the QTS Sacramento data center as a colocation site or if your business is planning on moving your main or disaster recovery equipment to Herakles/QTS, Progent offers a range of affordable consulting services that include data center relocation, system deployment and upgrades, network improvements, comprehensive project management, virtual server configuration, remote network monitoring, automated network administration, software programming, disaster recovery/business continuity planning and testing, security assessment, and the support of Progent's Test Lab.
Progent can assist your company to plan and implement a smooth migration from a UNIX-powered IT system to a network based on Windows and capable of running Microsoft's popular office productivity products, commercial applications, and software development tools. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and software development specialists can assist you to preserve your information and minimize productivity disruption by designing an efficient migration plan that preserves your current assets in UNIX application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows transition support expertise available from Progent include analysis of existing infrastructure, transition strategy and testing, Exchange migration services, information and application porting, and server and storage migration and consolidation.
Cisco's Meraki MS line of switches are designed for environments that go from branch offices to campuses. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants can provide affordable remote consulting expertise to assist your company to design and deploy an efficient network architecture based on Meraki MS switches, simplify network administration with Meraki's cloud-based management tools, define policies to ensure security and compliance, create and validate a disaster preparedness strategy, and resolve technical issues related to any aspect of your Meraki deployment. Progent can also assist your company to integrate Meraki switches with Cisco's Nexus or Catalyst data center switches and with Meraki Wi-Fi APs to build a cohesive networking solution.
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting engineers can assist you to determine the benefits of Exchange 2010 for your company and can help you to plan and carry out a smooth migration to Exchange 2010 from Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that will provide quick ROI by improving your workers' efficiency, cutting the cost of hardware and service, simplifying administration, and consolidating your vital communications technologies.
Progent can assist you to understand the wealth of subscription plans offered with Microsoft 365, formerly called Office 365, and integrate your information network with Microsoft 365 so you derive maximum business value. Progent offers expertise with multi-platform networks that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also assist your business to build and manage hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly combine on-premises and cloud-based products and services.
Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help your business plan the deployment of Juniper SSG integrated firewall/VPN products, configure security policies to match your operational requirements, set up network OS software to streamline management processes, migrate from legacy Juniper products, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway is based on the powerful security technologies of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and provides a easily administered Internet gateway that delivers a single-server platform for an array of security features such as an multi-layer firewall, URL filtering, malware inspection, intrusion protection, application proxy, VPN management, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway provides advanced web security logging and reporting features, allows custom reports powered by Microsoft SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to simplify authentication and policy enforcement, and can be installed as a virtual server to cut expenses and enhance availability. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to design and execute test and production deployments; integrate Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 with Windows 2008 R2, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint; set up Forefront TMG 2010 to operate on a virtual machine with Windows Hyper-V; and provide ongoing consulting and repair services. Progent's consultants can also assist you to migrate economically to Forefront TMG 2010 from Microsoft ISA Server 2006 or 2004.
Microsoft allows you to create transparent hybrid environments that integrate Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange deployments. This permits you to have some mailboxes located at your physical datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consultants can help you with any phase of designing, integrating and debugging your hybrid Exchange Online deployment. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed expertise to help you resolve challenging technical issues and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is successfully completed on schedule and within budget.
Progent can provide affordable online access to a certified Oracle DBA expert or an Oracle application programmer. Progent can provide advanced database administration services for any version of Oracle's RDBMS platform and can also help design, create, enhance, or troubleshoot Oracle database applications based on SQL and PL/SQL stored procedure programming language. Progent also can provide support for Data Guard replication technologies and Oracle Database Resource Manage.
Progent can supply small businesses with an information management professional who can function as a part-time Chief Information Officer. This part-time CIO can offer strategic direction to help you deploy appropriate technology to enhance business processes so they align better with your corporate goals. Your company can develop and implement a well conceived information technology strategy without incurring the cost of a full-time senior IT executive.
The Progent Test and Training Lab located at the QTS Colocation Center can be used for piloting line-of-business applications, developing cost-effective system upgrade methodologies, assessing and optimizing performance, planning or validating disaster recovery strategies, resolving compatibility issues, and building training systems for the latest technologies. For Progent clients without adequate internal resources to configure effective pilot systems, the lab cuts capital costs and engineering risk and helps keep vital IT initiatives on schedule.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have more than 10 years of background planning, deploying, optimizing and troubleshooting Microsoft SCOM environments and offer companies of any size advanced remote or onsite consulting services for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can assist you to design an architecture for SCOM 2012 servers that delivers the responsiveness and availability needed to monitor your datacenter effectively, whether your datacenters are on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid solution. Progent can also assist you to install and customize System Center 2012 Operations Manager management packs based on leading practices for monitoring network infrastructure and both Microsoft and third-party apps and services. In addition, Progent can deliver fast remote or onsite troubleshooting to help you to remediate serious problems uncovered by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
The experience of Progent's certified Microsoft Windows Server 2003 consultants, with an average of more than 11 years of work in Microsoft technology, assures you success in identifying the version and set up of Windows 2003 Server that aligns best with your company's strategy. Progent can also assist you with planning, deploying, administering and supporting powerful information technology solutions powered by Windows Server, and can streamline your migration from Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows NT.
Barracuda's budget-friendly CloudGen Firewall appliances combine web filtering, safe remote connectivity, SSL VPN, secure SD-WAN, and Zero-Trust support along with centrally managed and monitored services across your entire enterprise including on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid network architectures. Public clouds supported include Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Progent can deliver the depth of expertise to be your one-stop source for network support, maintenance, training, and cybersecurity consulting.
Progent can assist your company to plan and implement an efficient migration from a Sun Solaris-based information environment to a network powered by Microsoft Windows and suited for supporting Microsoft's familiar office productivity software, business applications, and software development tools. Progent's Solaris, Windows and Cisco engineers and application experts can help you guard your data and minimize productivity discontinuity by designing an efficient migration plan that preserves your existing assets in Sun Solaris software and technology. UNIX-to-Windows transition consulting expertise offered by Progent include evaluation of current infrastructure, migration planning and validation, Exchange migration expertise, data and application transition, and processor and storage system transition and consolidation.
Progent's Microsoft-certified information technology experts offer Windows Server 2016 migration consulting services to help businesses of all sizes to plan and carry out an efficient move to Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 based on a local, cloud-centric, or hybrid architecture. Progent can help your company to assess the business benefits of Windows Server 2016 for your environment and can help you with any aspect of planning, configuring, managing or debugging your Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 solution. Progent can assist your organization to take advantage of the many new high-availability and information assurance capabilities of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 such as Windows Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines, Credential Guard and Remote Credential Guard, Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management, VM software load, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss disaster recovery, plus multi-domain failover clusters.
Progent's Duo services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices.
Progent's IT outsourcing support offerings for small companies feature designing Server 2003, .NET Server, and Microsoft BackOffice environments, coordinating upgrades to XP, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk Call Center, remote and on-premises repair, resolving stubborn integration problems, and creating a company-wide security plan. Progent can show you how to maximize network reliability and performance with fault-tolerant technologies, resilient network topology, and proactive network monitoring. Progent also provides project management assistance for major migrations and can help with requirements definition, resource identification, BOM development, sourcing selection, purchasing logistics, and complete documentation. Progent's IT outsourcing service also features education for office productivity programs such as Office XP.
Progent's Test and Training Lab located at the QTS (formerly Herakles) Data Center is available for piloting mission-critical applications, developing cost-effective migration procedures, evaluating and optimizing performance, planning or verifying disaster recovery strategies, resolving compatibility issues, and building training environments for new technologies. For Progent clients without sufficient in-house resources to assemble effective pilot environments, the lab reduces capital costs and technical risk and helps keep critical network projects on schedule.
Progent can assist your business to understand the wealth of subscription options offered with Microsoft 365, previously called Office 365, and configure your information network with Microsoft 365 so you derive top business value. Progent supports cross-vendor networks that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also help your business to build and maintain hybrid networks that seamlessly combine on-premises and cloud resources.
Progent can assist your IT team to design and administer cost-effective environments that support Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in either cloud-only solutions or in hybrid architectures that combine local resources as well as one or more public clouds. To help you to incorporate public clouds with physical datacenters, Progent offers a range of public cloud integration support services such as Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud design and deployment consulting, Amazon Web Services cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and troubleshooting. Progent has 20 years of background delivering advanced consulting services online, and Progent can help you complete your cloud integration projects on schedule and within your budget.
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants, or Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals, are consultants who have earned ISSAP status through rigorous testing and significant experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.
With Catalyst switches for small and mid-size businesses, Cisco enables organizations to gain all the advantages of adding intelligent services to their IT infrastructures. Cisco's switching technology makes it possible to enable features to make your network infrastructure highly robust to accommodate real-time needs, expandable to facilitate growth, secure enough to protect restricted information, and designed for differentiating and managing traffic flows to streamline system operations. Progent's CCIE and CCNP certified consultants can show you how to pick out and deploy Cisco Catalyst switches appropriate for your company. In addition, Progent's CISA certified security specialists can help you create a comprehensive security plan and configure Cisco switches so they powerfully support your security strategy. Catalyst switches that Progent supports include Cisco's Catalyst 2950 switches, Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches, Cisco Catalyst 4500 switches, and Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches.
Lync 2010 supports IM, Real Presence, audio and video conferencing, desktop collaboration, as well as VoIP and traditional public switched telephone network telephony. Microsoft Lync 2010 can extend the functionality of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Office or Microsoft 365 and simplify management through integration with Active Directory. Lync can also cut expenses by doing away with VoIP hardware and subscription fees, PBX systems, or conventional teleconferencing solutions. Progent's certified IM and Presence experts can provide remote and on-premises support services to assist your company to manage and troubleshoot your current Lync 2010 environment or evaluate the advantages of upgrading from Lync to Skype for Business, which is Microsoft's new version of the product. Progent can also assist your organization to design and carry out an efficient Skype for Business migration or a migration to Microsoft Teams.
Progent offers the expertise of certified consultants as well as experienced software programmers, database administrators, project managers, network infrastructure engineers, disaster recovery specialists, and certified data security professionals to assist your business to evaluate the potential advantages of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your business, set up pilot systems at your site or at Progent's lab, plan and carry out an efficient migration to SQL Server 2012 from previous versions of SQL Server or from other RDBMS solutions, and define an efficient and secure network infrastructure that helps you realize the full strategic benefit of SQL Server 2012.
Progent's Microsoft consultants offer small and mid-size companies enterprise-class consulting support for Systems Management Server 2003 and Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft's solutions for change and deployment management. Configuration Manager is the new title for the change management solution formerly known as Systems Management Server. Configuration Manager 2007 provides a range of new features to SMS Server 2003 including full automation, built-in Vista Windows Server 2008 awareness, NAP security support, and boot image management. Progent's Microsoft certified consulting professionals can help you use SMS 2003 or Configuration Manager effectively for automated operating system and application deployment, security patch control, application metering, and software license compliance. Progent's engineers can also assist you to move efficiently from Systems Management Server 2003 to System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
Progent's Microsoft-Certified SQL consultants offer an array of services to help small and midsize businesses to plan, deploy, administer, and troubleshoot MS SQL Server 2008 systems in order to receive the maximum business advantage from this state-of-the-art relational database technology. In addition, Progent can provide expertise for network infrastructure, company-wide security, and software development to optimize the strategic advantage of your SQL Server network.
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Progent offers the support of BlackBerry-certified professionals who can assist small businesses to design, manage, and repair BlackBerry technology economically and effectively, eliminating the requirement for an internal BlackBerry expert and minimizing the cost and hassle of maintaining a mobile workgroup. Progent's BlackBerry specialists have extensive backgrounds cooperating with Progent's Microsoft-expert experts, Cisco CCIE-certified network engineers, and CISSP and GIAC-certified security engineers. This wide range of expertise, in conjunction with Progent's proven remote service delivery model, provides small businesses a cost-effective solution for incorporating BlackBerry devices and software seamlessly into their information network.