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Microsoft began shipping the next edition of Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server. These products offer the power of Windows enterprise-grade server platforms to small and midsize organizations in a cost-effective package. Targeted for organizations with up to 75 users, Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 is an integrated server platform created to help companies make their data more secure and their network more productive.

MS SBS 2008 is available in standard and premier versions. The basic edition includes Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premium edition also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft EBS 2008 is intended for companies with as many as 75 workstations and offers IT administrators more control over their environment 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 access to corporate messaging, calendars, contacts and files to workers who are away from their desks. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Unveils Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Professionals Can Help You to Deploy Windows Small Business Server
The optimal installation of MS Windows Small Business Server 2008 calls for an IT consulting firm with hands-on expertise and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business technology solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting group, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft products, assures you success in designing, executing and managing Small Business Server 2008 applications that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's line of system and application servers.

Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy the main pieces of the MS Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server packages and can also provide a range of other affordable support options to improve the productivity, reliability, protection, performance, and maintainability of information networks based on SBS 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent offers a variety of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration services that can help small businesses to benefit from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to understand the ways Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your IT system so that you can rationalize an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its stability, speed, and compatibility running realistic applications. Progent can provide consulting for developing a deployment plan, evaluate and enhance your current network infrastructure, develop archiving and restoration procedures, analyze security architecture and policies, help in setting up actual and virtual servers, design high-availability strategies including server clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house network administration team, and deploy proactive 24x7 monitoring processes to track system protection and efficiency.

Exchange Server 2007 Planning, Installation, and Troubleshooting Support
Progent's expert support team can show you how to design and deploy a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that avoids network disruption, simplifies ongoing support requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 help, repair, and design offerings include expertise with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server. Services include complete incorporation with your business network, connectivity with mobile computing devices, automated tracking of efficiency and network security, spam protection, security update and revision control, Helpdesk support, per-day data backup, and full messaging management services.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Consulting and Support
Progent can offer expertise for planning, configuring, and managing successful SharePoint Server solutions that will significantly enhance key areas of your organization's IT environment including collaboration, web portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to actionable intelligence, and document management. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can help your company to assess the business case for implementing SharePoint Server, deliver setup and integration support, help you to set up SQL Server as a back-office database engine, enhance your network architecture, set up your off-the-shelf and custom business software to operate with Microsoft SharePoint Server, create a company-wide protection plan that incorporates portal solutions, and provide online and on-premises repair and Help Desk support.

Microsoft SQL Server Integration and Maintenance
Progent's SQL Server consultants can make sure you installs Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL Server DBM system is integrated seamlessly with your business applications. Progent can provide 24x7 network monitoring to make sure your corporate information system is always available, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to offer fast solutions for SQL problems. Progent's certified data protection consultants can evaluate your business-wide security policies and technologies and suggest improvements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can assist your company to develop or personalize line-of-business applications or eCommerce sites utilize databases controlled by SQL Server.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts offer a wide range of cost-effective consulting and support services to assist you company to install, configure, troubleshoot, and administer workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or online technical support for single computers or notebooks or help you to design and carry out a large-scale rollout of the newest version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate productively with all Microsoft applications, products from popular publishers, SQL databases, and key solutions network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technicians to help you to plan for and implement a company move or merger organized to cause the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two low-cost service bundles designed to allow small businesses to get a professional network security assessment from a CISM and CISSP-premier security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your company firewall to determine possible risks in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from an authorized machine inside your company firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is managed by a consultant who has earned top security credentials who generates a report that details and interprets the data captured by the security scan and proposes practical remediation where call for.

Virtual Education for Desktop Programs
Progent offers live virtual learning for an array of desktop applications and environments including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Acrobat, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual learning provides all the benefits of traditional in-person sessions, such as immediate communication between clients and teachers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the availability of multiple students. Available to individuals or groups of all sizes, virtual education allows the instructor to run the class from a remote facility while the clients can be spread throughout an office or across the country. Virtual training deploys powerful teaching tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be brief and targeted for specific subjects or extended in duration and wider in scope. Teachers and clients can work through examples one-on-one or as a group.

Emergency Online Troubleshooting
Progent's National Support Center provides national remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small office computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service experts provide phone help and remote direct computer access to isolate and resolve network problems quickly and affordably. The scope of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of country-wide service professionals allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to appropriate specialists as required.

For additional information about Progent's support for Windows Small Business Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.