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Microsoft Delivers New Release of Small Business Server
Microsoft announced the next release of Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These solutions deliver the power of Microsoft's high-end server technologies to small companies in a cost-effective bundle. Intended for companies with as many as 75 users, MS Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server solution engineered to help businesses keep their data safer and make their workers more productive.
MS Small Business Server 2008 is available in basic and premium editions. The basic package features Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premium version also includes Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Windows EBS 2008 is meant for businesses with up to 75 PCs and gives network staff greater control over their information system by eliminating complications and streamlining common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing access to corporate messaging, calendars, addresses and information to users when they are away from the office. To read Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Announces Availability of Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.
How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Help Your Business to Deploy Microsoft Windows SBS
The most productive installation of MS Windows Small Business Server 2008 requires an IT consulting firm with hands-on experience and a broad background in designing and implementing data-driven strategic business technology solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical group, with more than two decades of working in Microsoft products, ensures you success in planning, executing and administering Small Business Server 2008 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft product family of system and application servers.
Progent's consultants can assist you to integrate the main pieces of the Windows Small Business Server and Microsoft Essential Business Server packages and can also provide a variety of other affordable services to enhance the productivity, reliability, protection, speed, and manageability of information networks built around
Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent provides a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance services that can assist small organizations to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to evaluate the areas where Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your network so that you can rationalize an upgrade. Progent can show you how to pilot Microsoft Windows Server 2008 so that you can assess its stability, throughput, and operability running realistic workloads. Progent can provide consulting for developing a deployment strategy, evaluate and improve existing network infrastructure, develop archiving and restoration procedures, analyze security architecture and policies, assist in integrating physical and virtual servers, develop fault-tolerant solutions including failover server clustering with Hyper-V, train your internal IT management staff, and set up automated server and network monitoring processes to track system security and performance.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can show you how to define and deploy a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that minimizes productivity disruption, reduces ongoing support requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include assistance with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging solutions based on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Help
Progent can offer help for planning, deploying, and managing productive SharePoint Server solutions that will significantly enhance key aspects of your organization's IT network including teamwork, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business processes, delivery of actionable information, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the business benefit for adopting SharePoint Server, provide configuration and installation expertise, assist you to configure SQL Server 2008 as a back-office database, optimize your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and custom application programs to work with SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive security plan that includes web portal solutions, and deliver online and on-site repair and Help Desk support.
SQL Server 2008 Integration and Maintenance
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your business installs Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-based database solution is integrated effectively with your business applications. Progent offers continuous server monitoring to make sure your business information system is always available, and Progent's online Help Desk Call Center is available to provide rapid remediation for SQL issues. Progent's certified computer protection consultants can evaluate your business-wide security processes and technologies and recommend improvements for more complete regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can help you to create or personalize business programs or eCommerce sites utilize databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
PC Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a broad array of affordable consulting and support services to assist you business to install, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online assistance for single machines or laptops or work with you to design and implement a network-wide migration to the most current release of Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your client PCs so they communicate productively with other Microsoft programs, software from third-party vendors, business servers, and line-of-business solutions network-wide. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to help your company to prepare for and complete an office move or consolidation organized to cause minimal interruption to your productivity.
Security Inventory Packages
Progent has put together two low-cost service bundles designed to enable small businesses to get an objective security evaluation from a GIAC and CISA-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional executes a system scan from a secure computer within your firewall to assess the risk to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a protected external site. The process is managed by an engineer who has earned high-level security accreditations who produces a document that details and analyzes the information captured by the security scan and proposes cost-effective remediation if call for.
Live Virtual Education for Desktop Programs
Progent offers live online instruction for popular client applications and operating systems including Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual training provides the benefits of traditional in-person seminars, such as immediate communication between clients and teachers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the schedules of multiple students. Available to individuals or groups of all sizes, live online education allows the teacher to run the seminar from a remote office while the students can be spread across a campus or across the U.S. Live online education deploys powerful learning aids such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared applications. Classes can be short and personalized for specific subjects or extended in duration and wider in coverage. Instructors and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a group.
Urgent Remote Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center provides nationwide remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small office computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified support experts provide telephone support and online secure network access to troubleshoot and resolve network problems quickly and economically. The breadth of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of nationwide service engineers allows Progent to escalate even the toughest problems to qualified specialists as needed.
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Remote Support Services Wireless Link
Emergency Technical Support Wireless Network
Progent's wireless professionals can help small businesses design, choose, test, deploy and support secure building-to-building wireless bridges that integrate seamlessly into your IT network while offering a degree of protection that equals or excels wireline interfaces. Progent provides experience in wireless LAN technology from Cisco Aironet and Meraki, Proxim, and additional small business wireless providers and can show you how to identify and deploy the wireless link solutions that match your company needs.
Exchange 2016 Upgrade Integration Services
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Migration Planning Professional
Progent can help you in any and all phases of your upgrade to Exchange 2016 such as planning high availability system topology for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; server and CAL licensing compliance for Exchange and Windows Server 2012 R2 or later; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V design; specifying storage capacity required for your virtual machines, databases and log files; setting up hardware load balancing for fault-tolerant CAS services; designing, setting up and testing Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; preparing the firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client remediation with Office desktop or Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
Antispam Help and Support
Support Postini
E-Mail Guard represents a complete service for blocking spam and viruses. E-Mail Guard addresses the protection and administration of company email by offering constantly improved spam and virus filtering, policy management, content filtering, and defense against email-borne DHA and DDoS attacks. E-Mail Guard also features tracking, administration and analysis tools as well as outbound email testing to let you troubleshoot your email system and specify and regulate company security policy.
24x7 Check Point VPN-1 Network Security Test
24 Hour information Systems Audit CheckPoint FireWalls
Progent's Check Point Software firewall consultants can show you how to design, configure, and manage firewall solutions that rely on Check Point Software Next Generation firewall appliances and Check Point's cloud-based security services. Progent's consultants can also assist you maintain older Check Point firewalls or migrate smoothly to Check Point's modern security gateways.
Open Now Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2019 Setup and Support
Specialists SharePoint Portal Server
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide small and medium sized companies IT consulting, maintenance, and repair services for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal solution for intelligently connecting people, groups and information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a common location for your employees or customers to connect to, organize, distribute and interact with useful information, documents, and applications and to interact with other people. It enables faster and more intelligent decisions, more effective sharing across groups and more streamlined business processes. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to bring together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of information accessible within and without an organization. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, clients, workgroups and projects with the information they've developed in a way that makes data easy to locate, download and apply.
24 Hour Consulting Microsoft Project Server Scheduling
Specialist Microsoft Project Server Reporting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide in-depth expertise in implementing, operating and troubleshooting all versions of Project Server and can deliver a broad variety of affordable online support services based on industry best practices to help businesses of any size to receive all the advantages of this powerful project management solution. Support services offered by Progent include system design, installation and upgrades, setting up secure collaboration among local and remote or mobile users, network optimization, and customized online training.
IT Services Small Business Wireless Access Point
Small Business WAP551 Setup and Support
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi technology experts can help you to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wireless Access Points.
Barracuda Networks VPN Cybersecurity Contractor
24-Hour Barracuda Networks F380B Series Firewalls Security Organization
Barracuda's budget-friendly CloudGen Firewall devices offer web filtering, remote connectivity, SSL VPN, high-security SD-WAN, and Zero-Trust support along with centralized management throughout your whole enterprise including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment models. Public clouds supported include Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Progent can deliver the skill to be your single resource for network support, maintenance, training, and cybersecurity expertise.
Application Monitoring Consultant
Outsourcing Monitoring and Reporting
Even if your business has a minimal computer support staff and a limited technology budget, your information network can still have the same high availability and responsiveness that once required a large internal service group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-certified and Cisco-premier IT professionals, the most recent network management software for proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective support packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical network applications and servers up and running.
Consultant Services Sun Solaris
Software Outsourcing Consultant BSD
Progent's UNIX platform support services offer small businesses and developers help with administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business access to UNIX experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This broad range of experience provides you with a convenient single consulting firm to help you create and manage a secure and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with popular variants of UNIX such as Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE Linux, Debian GNU/Linux and Mandrake.
Tandberg Video Conferencing Professional
Online Help Video Conferencing
Progent offers the support of an accredited consultant with an extensive background integrating technology from the major video conferencing/telepresence providers including Cisco, Polycom, and LifeSize and can help you to design, install, upgrade, or troubleshoot a video conferencing environment that protects your current investment and optimizes the strategic value of your information network. Progent also offers the services of network infrastructure consultants who can help companies of any size to build and troubleshoot a network that provides the performance, dependability, security, and expandability required to support your video conferencing/telepresence solution.
Security Assessment Services
Cybersecurity Assessment Professional
Progent's accredited cybersecurity consultants can provide cybersecurity reviews of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's cybersecurity profile adherence to recognized industry security standards. Progent offers subscription-based managed services for security monitoring, on-demand network-wide security audits, and targeted cybersecurity evaluations for specific areas of cybersecurity such as Active Directory or cloud applications. Progent's accredited security experts can also carry out comprehensive security assessments to validate your company's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO.
Microsoft Windows 11 Migration Specialists
Microsoft Windows 11 Teams Specialists
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows 11 consulting experts can provide an array of services to support Windows 11 such as cloud solutions, mobile management and synchronization, at-home workforce connectivity, security and compliance, streamlined deployment, and Call Center services.
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