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Microsoft announced the most recent release of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). Microsoft's solutions deliver the capabilities of Microsoft’s enterprise-level server platforms to small and midsize businesses in an economical bundle. Intended for organizations with up to 75 PCs, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server is a cohesive server platform engineered to enable companies keep their information safer and make their organization more productive.

MS SBS 2008 is offered in basic and premier editions. The standard package includes MS Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premier edition adds MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is targeted for organizations with up to 75 PCs and offers IT administrators easier manageability of 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 business messaging, calendars, contacts and information to workers who are not at the office. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Announces SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Professionals Can Help You to Integrate MS Windows SBS
The optimal configuration of MS Windows Small Business Server requires an IT consulting firm with real-world experience and an extensive knowledge-base in planning and building data-driven strategic business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical team, with an average of over a decade of consulting in Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 solutions that are thoroughly integrated with the Microsoft product family of servers.

Progent's IT professionals can assist your company to deploy the main pieces of the Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a range of other affordable support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, performance, and maintainability of IT systems built around Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent offers a range of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration support that can help small organizations to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the business value of your IT system so that you can cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to pilot Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its reliability, responsiveness, and compatibility handling realistic workloads. Progent can provide consulting for creating a deployment plan, assess and improve existing network infrastructure, develop archiving and restoration processes, evaluate security mechanisms and guidelines, assist in setting up physical and virtual machines, develop high-availability strategies such as failover server clustering, train your internal network administration staff, and deploy automated round-the-clock monitoring processes to track system security and performance.

Exchange Server Design, Installation, and Maintenance Support
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to design and implement an efficient Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that minimizes network downtime, reduces ongoing support demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include assistance with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging implementations powered by Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services feature integration with your business network, access to handheld computing devices, automated monitoring of efficiency and security, spam and virus protection, security update and service pack control, Contact Center support, daily data backup, and full messaging administration support.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Services
Progent can offer assistance for designing, deploying, and managing successful Microsoft SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically improve key areas of your organization's information system including teamwork, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-based business operations, access to management information, and content management. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can assist you to evaluate the business benefit for implementing SharePoint Server 2007, deliver setup and installation expertise, help your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database, enhance your network infrastructure, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized application software to work with Office SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive protection strategy that includes portal solutions, and deliver online and on-premises troubleshooting and Help Desk Call Center support.

SQL Server 2008 Design and Support
Progent's SQL Server consultants can help your small business installs Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-powered data management solution is incorporated seamlessly with your applications. Progent offers automated network tracking to ensure your business information system is working efficiently, and Progent's online Help Desk is ready to provide quick remediation for SQL-related problems. Progent's certified data protection consultants can evaluate your business-wide security processes and mechanisms and suggest enhancements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can help you to create or personalize business applications or eCommerce sites utilize information managed by SQL Server.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified desktop support consultants offer a wide array of affordable support services to help your company to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or online technical support for single machines or laptops or help your business to plan and implement a network-wide migration to the newest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they communicate productively with all Microsoft programs, software from popular vendors, database servers, and line-of-business services network-wide. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to help your company to prepare for and implement a company relocation or consolidation designed to cause the least possible interruption to your business.

Security Inventory Bundles
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable service packages intended to allow small businesses to get an impartial security evaluation from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a network scan from an authorized machine within your company firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to inside attacks. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a protected remote site. The project is implemented by a consultant who has earned top security accreditations who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where call for.

Virtual Instruction for Desktop Programs
Progent offers online virtual learning for an array of client programs and operating systems such as Office Excel, Word, Access, Project, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Virtual training offers the advantages of conventional in-person seminars, such as instant communication between students and trainers, but eliminates the expenses of transportation and the hassle of attempting to synchronize the schedules of many students. Offered to single students or classes of all sizes, live online training allows the instructor to run the seminar from an online facility while the students can be spread across a campus or all over the country. Live online instruction supports proven teaching aids such as broadcast white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared applications. Classes can be short and personalized for specialized topics or extended in duration and wider in coverage. Teachers and clients can go through problems individually or as a group.

Emergency Online Technical Support
Progent’s Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service engineers provide phone support and online direct computer connection to isolate and repair network problems quickly and economically. The scope of IT experience represented by Progent's team of country-wide service engineers makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult problems to competent experts as needed.

To find out more information about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Windows SBS, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.