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Microsoft began shipping the most recent version of Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server. These software platforms bring the power of Microsoft's enterprise-level server platforms to small organizations in an economical bundle. Intended for companies with up to 75 PCs, Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is a cohesive server platform created to enable businesses keep their information safer and their network more efficient.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is offered in standard and premium editions. The standard edition features Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premium edition adds Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Windows EBS 2008 is targeted for companies with as many as 75 PC users and gives network administrators easier manageability of their information system by eliminating complications and streamlining common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to corporate messaging, calendars, addresses and information to workers who are away from the office. To read Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Ships Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Assist You to Integrate Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008
The most productive configuration of Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 requires an IT consulting company with real-world expertise and a broad background in planning and implementing data-driven strategic business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting group, with an average of over 10 years of working in Microsoft products, assures you results in designing, executing and managing MS Small Business Server 2008 applications that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can assist your company to deploy the major components of the Microsoft Windows SBS and Windows Essential Business Server bundles and can also provide a variety of other low-cost services to improve the efficiency, reliability, security, speed, and manageability of information systems based on Small Business Server 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent provides a range of Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance support that can assist small companies to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your company to understand the areas where Windows Server 2008 could enhance the business value of your information network so that you can cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you test Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its reliability, throughput, and compatibility running your applications. Progent can help with creating a deployment strategy, evaluate and improve your current network infrastructure, document archiving and restoration processes, evaluate security architecture and policies, help in installing actual and virtual machines, develop high-availability strategies including server and storage clustering, educate your in-house IT management staff, and deploy automated round-the-clock monitoring operations to track your information system's protection and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Planning, Configuration, and Maintenance Support
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to design and deploy a smooth Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that avoids productivity downtime, simplifies long-term service demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 help, repair, and consulting services include assistance with the integration of outside vendor add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging implementations based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Services feature complete incorporation with your business network, connectivity with mobile communication products, automated tracking of efficiency and network security, spam protection, patch and revision management, Help Desk Call Center support, per-day backup, and full messaging management support.

SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Services
Progent can provide assistance for designing, deploying, and managing productive Microsoft Office SharePoint Server installations that can dramatically enhance key areas of your company's information system including teamwork, intranet portal, company-wide search, forms-based business operations, delivery of actionable information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to assess the business case for deploying Office SharePoint, deliver setup and installation expertise, help you to configure SQL Server as a back-office database engine, optimize your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and specialized business programs to work with Office SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive security plan that incorporates web portal technology, and deliver remote and in-person repair and Call Center services.

SQL Server Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server consultants can make sure you installs SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL Server database solution is incorporated effectively with your applications. Progent can provide continuous network tracking to make sure your business information system is healthy, and Progent's remote Help Desk Call Center is available to provide rapid solutions for SQL issues. Progent's certified computer security engineers can evaluate your company-wide security policies and technologies and recommend enhancements for better protection. Progent's programmers can help your company to develop or personalize business applications or web sites rely on information controlled by SQL Server 2008.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts offer a broad array of cost-effective support services to help your business to install, configure, repair, and administer workstations and laptops based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote technical support for single machines or notebooks or help your business to design and carry out a large-scale rollout of the latest version of Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they communicate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from third-party vendors, business servers, and line-of-business services throughout your network. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to assist you to plan for and complete a company move or merger organized to cause the least possible disruption of your business.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to enable small businesses to get an objective network security assessment from a CISM and CISSP-premier security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to determine possible risks in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a system scan from a secure machine inside your company firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is managed by a consultant who has earned top security accreditations who generates a document that summarizes and interprets the information captured by the security scan and suggests practical improvements where call for.

Live Virtual Learning for Desktop Applications
Progent offers online virtual education for an array of client applications and environments including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual instruction provides all the advantages of conventional in-person seminars, such as instant communication between clients and teachers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the hassle of trying to synchronize the availability of many workers. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, live online instruction permits the instructor to conduct the class from a remote facility and the students can be dispersed across a campus or across the the U.S. Live online learning deploys proven learning mechanisms like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be brief and personalized for specific topics or extended in time and broader in scope. Teachers and students can work through problems one-on-one or as a class.

Emergency Online Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small business IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service professionals offer telephone support and online direct computer connection to troubleshoot and repair technical problems rapidly and economically. The scope of IT expertise available from Progent's team of country-wide support professionals allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to qualified specialists as required.

To find out more information about Progent's consulting expertise for MS Windows Small Business Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.