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Microsoft began shipping the latest edition of Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server. Microsoft's products bring the capabilities of Windows enterprise-grade server platforms to smaller businesses in a cost-effective bundle. Designed for businesses with up to 75 PC users, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server is a cohesive server solution created to enable companies make their information safer and make their network more efficient.

MS SBS 2008 is available in standard and premium versions. The standard edition features MS Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premier version also includes Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is intended for organizations with up to 75 users and provides IT staff easier control over their information system by reducing complications and automating common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing access to business messaging, scheduling, addresses and files to workers when they are away from their desks. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Announces Availability of SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help You to Deploy MS Windows Small Business Server 2008
The optimal configuration of MS Windows Small Business Server calls for an IT support firm with real-world expertise and a broad background in planning and building data-driven strategic business IT solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized consulting team, with more than 10 years of consulting in Microsoft products, ensures you success in planning, deploying and administering MS Small Business Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consultants can help your company to integrate the major pieces of the Microsoft SBS 2008 and Microsoft Essential Business Server packages and can also offer a variety of other affordable support options to enhance the efficiency, dependability, security, speed, and manageability of IT networks built around Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 planning and integration services that can help small companies to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the business value of your information network so that you can cost-justify a migration. Progent can show you how to test Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its stability, responsiveness, and compatibility running your applications. Progent can help with creating a deployment plan, evaluate and improve existing network infrastructure, develop archiving and restoration procedures, evaluate security architecture and policies, help in setting up actual and virtualized machines, design fault-tolerant strategies including server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, educate your in-house network administration team, and deploy automated server monitoring operations to track system protection and performance.

Exchange Server 2007 Design, Setup, and Maintenance Services
Progent's expert consultants can help you define and deploy an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration strategy that avoids network downtime, simplifies long-term support demands, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 support, repair, and design services include assistance with the configuration of third-party enhancements of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the design of unified messaging implementations powered by Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services include integration with your business network, access to mobile communication products, continual tracking of performance and security, spam and virus filtering, security update and service pack control, Help Desk support, per-day backup, and full messaging administration support.

SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can offer assistance for designing, configuring, and maintaining successful Microsoft SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically improve important areas of your organization's information system including collaboration, web portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to actionable information, and content management. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to assess the business case for adopting Office SharePoint, provide configuration and integration expertise, help your business to configure Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-office database engine, optimize your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and specialized business software to work with SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive protection strategy that includes portal technology, and provide remote and in-person repair and Help Desk support.

SQL Server Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your company installs SQL 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based data management system is integrated seamlessly with your application software. Progent offers 24x7 server monitoring to make sure your corporate network is working efficiently, and Progent's online Help Desk is available to offer rapid resolutions for SQL-related issues. Progent's certified network protection engineers can assess your business-wide security policies and technologies and suggest improvements for more complete regulatory compliance. Progent's application developers can help you to develop or customize business programs or web sites rely on databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants can deliver a wide range of affordable services to help your business to install, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or online technical support for single machines or notebooks or help your business to design and implement a large-scale rollout of the newest version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they communicate productively with all Microsoft programs, products from third-party vendors, database servers, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply engineers and technicians to help you to plan for and complete a company move or merger designed to produce minimal interruption to your business.

Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service bundles designed to enable small companies to receive an objective security assessment from a GIAC and CISA-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers an extensive examination of your network from beyond your firewall to uncover possible risks in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a system scan from an authorized machine inside your company firewall to uncover the risk to internal assaults. The two security inventory packages are set up and executed from a protected remote location. The project is implemented by a consultant who has earned high-level security accreditations who produces a document that summarizes and analyzes the data captured by the scan and proposes practical remediation if appropriate.

Virtual Education for Workstation Programs
Progent provides online virtual instruction for an array of desktop applications and environments including Office Excel, Word, Publisher, Visio, Acrobat, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Virtual learning offers all the advantages of conventional in-person sessions, such as instant communication between students and trainers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the hassle of trying to synchronize the availability of multiple workers. Available to single students or groups of any size, live online instruction permits the teacher to run the seminar from a remote facility and the clients can be spread throughout a campus or across the the U.S. Virtual instruction supports powerful learning tools such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared applications. Sessions can be short and personalized for specific subjects or extended in duration and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a class.

Emergency Online Troubleshooting
Progent's Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small office IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service experts provide phone support and remote direct network access to isolate and resolve technical problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of technical experience represented by Progent's staff of nationwide service engineers makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult problems to competent experts as needed.

For additional details concerning Progent's support for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.