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Microsoft announced the most recent version of Windows Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). Microsoft's solutions bring the power of Microsoft's advanced server platforms to smaller companies in a cost-effective bundle. Designed for organizations with up to 75 desktops, Windows SBS 2008 is an integrated server solution created to enable companies make their data more secure and their workers more productive.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is offered in basic and premium versions. The basic edition includes MS Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premium version also includes Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is designed for businesses with up to 75 PC users and provides network administrators greater manageability of their environment by reducing complexity and streamlining common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to business messaging, scheduling, addresses and information to workers when they are not at the office. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Ships Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Assist You to Deploy Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008
The most productive installation of MS Windows SBS requires an IT support firm with real-world experience and an extensive background in designing and implementing data-driven strategic business technology applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical group, with an average of over a decade of consulting in Microsoft products, ensures you success in designing, executing and managing MS Small Business Server solutions that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can assist your company to integrate the main pieces of the MS Windows SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server packages and can also provide a variety of other low-cost services to enhance the productivity, reliability, security, speed, and maintainability of IT systems based on SBS 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Integration
Progent provides a range of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration support that can help small companies to take advantage of Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to evaluate the areas where Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your IT system so that you can cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its stability, throughput, and compatibility handling your workloads. Progent can assist with developing a deployment strategy, evaluate and improve your current network infrastructure, develop archiving and recovery processes, analyze security mechanisms and policies, help in installing actual and virtualized servers, develop high-availability solutions such as failover server clustering, educate your internal network administration team, and deploy automated server monitoring operations to track your information system's protection and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server Design, Installation, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's expert support team can help you define and implement an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that minimizes productivity downtime, simplifies ongoing service demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 support, repair, and design offerings include expertise with the integration of third-party enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 and the design of unified messaging implementations based on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server. Services feature complete incorporation with your business network, access to handheld communication devices, continual tracking of performance and network security, spam filtering, security update and revision control, Helpdesk services, per-day data backup, and comprehensive email management services.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Consulting and Support
Progent can offer assistance for planning, configuring, and maintaining successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions that can dramatically improve key aspects of your IT network such as collaboration, web portal, enterprise search, forms-driven business operations, delivery of management intelligence, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business benefit for deploying SharePoint Server 2007, provide configuration and integration expertise, help your business to configure SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database engine, enhance your network infrastructure, integrate your off-the-shelf and specialized application software to operate with Microsoft SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive protection strategy that incorporates portal solutions, and provide remote and on-site repair and Help Desk support.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration and Maintenance
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your company configures SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based data management solution is integrated thoroughly with your business applications. Progent offers automated server monitoring to make sure your business information system is working efficiently, and Progent's online Help Desk Call Center is available to offer quick solutions for SQL problems. Progent's certified network protection consultants can evaluate your company-wide security processes and mechanisms and suggest enhancements for more complete protection. Progent's developers can help you to develop or personalize business applications or web sites utilize information controlled by SQL Server.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants offer a broad range of cost-effective support services to assist your company to deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and administer desktop PCs and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online assistance for individual computers or notebooks or work with you to design and implement a large-scale migration to the latest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they communicate productively with other Microsoft programs, products from popular publishers, database servers, and key solutions throughout your network. Progent can also provide consultants and technicians to assist you to prepare for and complete a company relocation or consolidation organized to produce minimal interruption to your business.

Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to allow small companies to receive an objective security evaluation from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your company firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer executes a system scan from an authorized machine within your firewall to assess vulnerabilities to internal attacks. The two security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured external location. The project is implemented by a consultant with high-level security accreditations who produces a report that details and analyzes the information captured by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if call for.

Live Virtual Instruction for Workstation Applications
Progent offers live virtual instruction for popular client applications and operating systems including Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online education offers the advantages of conventional in-person seminars, such as instant communication between students and teachers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the hassle of attempting to synchronize the availability of multiple trainees. Offered to individuals or classes of any size, virtual learning allows the trainer to run the class from an online facility and the students can be dispersed across an office or across the country. Virtual instruction supports proven learning mechanisms like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Classes can be short and personalized for specific subjects or extended in duration and wider in scope. Instructors and students can work through problems individually or as a class.

Urgent Remote Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center provides nationwide remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support professionals provide telephone help and remote secure network access to troubleshoot and repair technical problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of nationwide support engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult network issues to competent specialists as required.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for Windows Small Business Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.