New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Microsoft began shipping the 2008 edition of Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These software platforms deliver the capabilities of Microsoft's enterprise-grade server platforms to small companies in an affordable package. Targeted for organizations with as many as 75 PCs, MS Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server solution engineered to enable companies keep their data more secure and their workers more efficient.

Microsoft SBS 2008 is offered in standard and premium editions. The basic package features MS Windows 2008 Server, Exchange 2007 Server, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premium edition adds MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft EBS 2008 is targeted for companies with up to 75 workstations and provides network staff easier control over their environment by eliminating complexity and streamlining common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by providing access to business e-mail, calendars, addresses and information to users who are not at the office. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Unveils Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Get the Most Out of Microsoft SBS
The most productive deployment of Windows Small Business Server 2008 calls for a network support company with real-world experience and a broad knowledge-base in planning and building data-driven end-to-end business IT applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical team, with an average of over a decade of working in Microsoft technology, assures you results in planning, deploying and managing MS Small Business Server solutions that are well integrated with Microsoft's line of servers.

Progent's IT professionals can assist you to integrate the major components of the Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a variety of other low-cost support options to enhance the efficiency, reliability, security, speed, and manageability of IT systems based on Small Business Server 2008 or EBS 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a variety of Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance support that can help small companies to benefit from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to evaluate the areas where Windows Server 2008 could improve the business value 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, responsiveness, and operability handling your workloads. Progent can assist with developing a rollout plan, assess and enhance existing network infrastructure, develop archiving and recovery processes, evaluate security mechanisms and policies, assist in setting up physical and virtual servers, develop high-availability solutions including server and storage clustering, train your in-house network administration staff, and deploy automated 24x7 monitoring processes to track your information system's protection and efficiency.

Exchange Server 2007 Design, Installation, and Maintenance Services
Progent's expert support team can show you how to design and deploy an efficient Exchange Server 2007 upgrade plan that minimizes network downtime, simplifies ongoing service demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include expertise with the configuration of third-party add-ons to Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services feature integration with your business network, access to mobile computing products, continual monitoring of efficiency and security, spam filtering, security update and revision management, Help Desk support, daily data backup, and comprehensive email management services.

SharePoint Server Help
Progent can offer help for planning, configuring, and managing productive Microsoft SharePoint Server installations that can significantly improve important areas of your organization's information system such as teamwork, web portal, enterprise search, forms-driven business processes, delivery of actionable information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the business benefit for implementing Office SharePoint, provide setup and integration expertise, help your business to set up SQL Server as a back-office database, optimize your network architecture, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized application software to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server, create a company-wide security plan that incorporates portal technology, and deliver remote and on-site repair and Help Desk support.

SQL Server Design and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help your business configures Microsoft SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL Server database solution is incorporated thoroughly with your applications. Progent offers automated network monitoring to ensure your corporate network is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Help Desk is ready to offer fast remediation for SQL-related problems. Progent's certified computer security consultants can assess your company-wide security policies and technologies and suggest improvements for more complete protection. Progent's application developers can help you to create or personalize business programs or web sites utilize databases controlled by Microsoft SQL Server.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants can deliver a broad range of cost-effective support services to help you company to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and administer desktop PCs and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or remote technical support for single computers or laptops or help you to design and implement a network-wide migration to the most current version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with all Microsoft programs, products from third-party vendors, database servers, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply engineers and technicians to assist you to plan for and implement an office relocation or consolidation organized to produce minimal interruption to your productivity.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to enable small businesses to receive an objective network security evaluation from a CISM and CISSP-premier security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to uncover potential risks in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional runs a system scan from a secure computer within your company firewall to determine the risk to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are configured and run from a protected remote site. The process is managed by an engineer with high-level security accreditations who produces a document that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where call for.

Live Virtual Education for Desktop Programs
Progent provides live virtual training for a range of desktop applications and operating systems such as Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual instruction offers all the benefits of conventional classroom seminars, such as instant communication between students and teachers, but avoids the costs of travel and the hassle of attempting to synchronize the availability of multiple trainees. Offered to single students or groups of all sizes, virtual training permits the instructor to run the seminar from an online facility while the students can be dispersed across an office or across the the U.S. Live online instruction utilizes proven learning tools such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be brief and personalized for specialized topics or extended in time and wider in coverage. Instructors and clients can work through problems one-on-one or as a group.

Urgent Remote Troubleshooting
Progent's Technical Response Center provides national remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small office IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service engineers provide telephone support and online secure network connection to troubleshoot and repair technical problems rapidly and economically. The breadth of technical experience represented by Progent's staff of country-wide support professionals makes it possible to escalate even the toughest network issues to appropriate experts as needed.

To find out additional details concerning Progent's consulting support for Windows SBS, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.