New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Microsoft debuted the most recent release of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server. Microsoft's software platforms bring the power of Microsoft's advanced server platforms to smaller organizations in an affordable package. Targeted for companies with up to 75 PC users, Microsoft SBS 2008 is an integrated server platform created to enable companies keep their data more secure and make their workers more efficient.

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

Microsoft Essential Business Server is intended for businesses with up to 75 users and offers network administrators greater manageability of 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 access to corporate messaging, calendars, contacts and information to users who are away from their desks. To read Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Releases Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Assist Your Company to Integrate Windows Small Business Server
The optimal configuration of MS Windows Small Business Server requires an IT support company with hands-on expertise and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and implementing data-driven end-to-end business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical team, with more than 10 years of consulting in Microsoft products, ensures you results in designing, deploying and administering Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 solutions that are well integrated with Microsoft's product family of servers.

Progent's IT professionals can help you to deploy the main components of the Microsoft Small Business Server and Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also provide a range of other affordable support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, speed, and maintainability of IT networks built around Small Business Server 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Planning and Support
Progent offers a variety of Windows Server 2008 planning and maintenance support that can assist small organizations to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to understand the areas where Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the business value of your network in order to rationalize a migration. Progent can help you pilot Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to determine its stability, responsiveness, and compatibility running your workloads. Progent can provide consulting for developing a deployment plan, evaluate and improve your current network environment, develop archiving and restoration procedures, evaluate security mechanisms and guidelines, assist in setting up physical and virtual machines, design high-availability strategies such as server clustering with Hyper-V, train your internal network management staff, and set up proactive 24x7 monitoring operations to track system security and performance.

Exchange Server Design, Setup, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's expert support team can help you design and deploy a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that avoids network downtime, simplifies ongoing support requirements, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 help, troubleshooting, and design offerings include assistance with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services feature integration with your business network, access to mobile computing devices, automated tracking of performance and network security, spam and virus protection, security update and revision management, Help Desk support, daily data backup, and comprehensive messaging administration support.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Services
Progent can offer assistance for planning, configuring, and maintaining successful Microsoft SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically improve important areas of your organization's IT network including teamwork, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business operations, delivery of management information, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to evaluate the business benefit for deploying SharePoint Server, deliver configuration and installation expertise, assist your business to configure Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-office database engine, enhance your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and specialized business software to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, develop a company-wide protection strategy that incorporates portal technology, and deliver remote and on-premises troubleshooting and Help Desk support.

Microsoft SQL Server Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server consultants can make sure your business configures Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-based DBM solution is integrated thoroughly with your application software. Progent can provide continuous network monitoring to make sure your corporate information system is always available, and Progent's remote Technical Response Center is ready to provide rapid solutions for SQL issues. Progent's certified computer security consultants can assess your business-wide security policies and mechanisms and suggest improvements for more complete protection. Progent's programmers can help you to create or customize business programs or eCommerce sites utilize information managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants can deliver a broad array of affordable support services to help you business to deploy, integrate, repair, and manage desktop PCs and laptops based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or remote technical support for individual computers or laptops or work with your business to plan and implement a large-scale migration to the most current release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate productively with all Microsoft applications, software from popular publishers, database servers, and line-of-business solutions network-wide. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to assist your company to plan for and complete an office relocation or merger organized to cause minimal disruption of your business.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages intended to enable small companies to get an objective security evaluation from a GIAC and CISA-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a network scan from an authorized machine within your company firewall to uncover your exposure to inside attacks. Both security inventory services are configured and executed from a protected external location. The project is implemented by a consultant who has earned top security credentials who generates a document that summarizes and interprets the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where call for.

Live Virtual Instruction for Workstation Applications
Progent provides online virtual learning for an array of client applications and operating systems such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Live online instruction offers all the advantages of traditional in-person seminars, including immediate interaction between students and trainers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the schedules of many trainees. Offered to single students or groups of all sizes, virtual education allows the teacher to conduct the class from a remote office and the clients can be spread throughout a campus or across the the U.S. Virtual education supports proven teaching mechanisms like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Sessions can be brief and personalized for specific topics or longer in duration and wider in coverage. Instructors and clients can go through problems individually or as a group.

Urgent Online Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small office computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service engineers offer telephone support and online direct computer access to troubleshoot and resolve network problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of IT experience represented by Progent's team of country-wide service professionals makes it possible to escalate even the toughest problems to competent specialists as required.

For more details about Progent's consulting and support services for Windows SBS 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.