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Microsoft debuted the 2008 edition of Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server. These products offer the power of Microsoft's advanced server platforms to small businesses in a cost-effective package. Intended for businesses with as many as 75 PCs, Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server solution engineered to enable companies keep their data safer and their workers more productive.

Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is available in standard and premier editions. The basic edition includes Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. The premium edition adds MS SQL Server 2008.

Essential Business Server 2008 is designed for organizations with up to 75 PC users and offers network staff greater control over their information system by eliminating complications and automating common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to corporate messaging, scheduling, contacts and information to users when they are away from the office. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Unveils Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Get the Most Out of MS Windows Small Business Server 2008
The most productive installation of Windows SBS 2008 calls for a network support firm with real-world expertise and an extensive background in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized consulting team, with more than 10 years of consulting in Microsoft technology, ensures you results in designing, executing and managing Small Business Server solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consultants can help you to integrate the major pieces of the MS Windows SBS and Microsoft EBS 2008 bundles and can also offer a variety of other low-cost services to improve the efficiency, dependability, security, performance, and maintainability of information networks based on Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent provides a range of Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance support that can help small organizations to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the areas where Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your network so that you can rationalize an upgrade. Progent can help you test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its reliability, throughput, and operability running realistic workloads. Progent can assist with creating a deployment plan, assess and enhance your current network infrastructure, develop archiving and recovery processes, analyze security architecture and guidelines, assist in integrating actual and virtual servers, develop high-availability strategies such as failover server clustering, educate your internal network administration team, and deploy proactive server and network monitoring operations to ensure your information system's protection and efficiency.

Microsoft Exchange Server Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's expert support team can show you how to design and implement an efficient Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that minimizes network disruption, reduces long-term service requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 help, repair, and design offerings include assistance with the configuration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services feature complete incorporation with your network, connectivity with mobile communication devices, continual tracking of performance and network security, spam and virus filtering, patch and revision management, Helpdesk support, per-day backup, and comprehensive messaging management services.

Office SharePoint Server Help
Progent can provide help for planning, configuring, and managing successful Microsoft SharePoint Server solutions that can significantly enhance important areas of your company's information system such as teamwork, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business operations, delivery of management information, and document management. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can help you to assess the business case for implementing SharePoint Server 2007, provide setup and integration support, help you to configure Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database, optimize your network architecture, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized business programs to work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, create a comprehensive protection plan that incorporates portal solutions, and deliver remote and on-premises repair and Help Desk Call Center support.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration and Maintenance
Progent's SQL Server consultants can make sure your small business configures SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based RDBM solution is incorporated seamlessly with your application software. Progent offers continuous network tracking to ensure your corporate information system is working efficiently, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to offer rapid solutions for SQL problems. Progent's certified data protection consultants can assess your business-wide security processes and technologies and suggest enhancements for better protection. Progent's application developers can help your company to create or personalize business applications or eCommerce sites rely on databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide array of affordable support services to help you company to install, configure, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online technical support for single machines or laptops or work with your business to design and carry out a network-wide migration to the most current version of Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your client PCs so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft applications, products from third-party publishers, SQL databases, and key services network-wide. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to help your company to plan for and implement an office move or merger organized to produce the least possible disruption of your productivity.

Security Inventory Packages
Progent has put together two low-cost service packages designed to allow small businesses to receive a professional security assessment from a GIAC and CISA-premier security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert administers an extensive test of your network from beyond your firewall to uncover possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer executes a system scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to internal assaults. Both security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured external location. The process is managed by a consultant with top security accreditations who produces a report that details and analyzes the information captured by the security scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where appropriate.

Virtual Learning for Desktop Programs
Progent provides live virtual training for an array of client programs and environments including Office Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online education provides all the advantages of conventional in-person sessions, such as instant interaction between students and teachers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of many trainees. Available to individuals or groups of any size, live online training permits the instructor to run the seminar from a remote facility while the students can be spread across an office or across the the U.S. Live online instruction supports powerful learning mechanisms such as broadcast white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared desktops. Sessions can be short and targeted for specialized topics or longer in duration and wider in scope. Teachers and clients can go through problems individually or as a group.

Urgent Online Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center provides national remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support professionals offer telephone support and online secure network connection to troubleshoot and repair network problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of IT expertise available from Progent's staff of country-wide support professionals allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult network issues to competent specialists as required.

To learn additional details about Progent's support for Microsoft Windows SBS, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.